Hey guys. I just took the test for the second time today. For my first attempt, I got a 53 5/5/6 after a week of studying. After another month of studying for my second attempt, I improved to a 58 7/7/8. I got much of my preparation advice from this thread, but I wanted to point out things I did that I haven't seen yet on this thread.
Math: A lot of people recommend Khan Academy. Khan Academy is good, but I mostly used the YouTube channel “The Organic Chemistry Tutor.” The guy explains things really well and provides excellent practice problems with his lessons. I specifically studied for:
Reading Comprehension: Read the passages aloud. It’ll help you stay awake.
ANIT: Flash cards. Below are the ones I used:
Comprehensive ANIT
Aviation history
Aircraft Crew/Shirt colors
US Navy Ratings
Naval Aircraft
I also looked up naval aircraft designation numbers on Wikipedia, and this for additional history
DISCLAIMER: I knew all of these flashcards and links (almost) perfectly, and I still only knew about 60-70% of the questions.
UAV: These flashcards. Whenever I saw the arrow pointing in a direction between two headings, I read it like this: NE, ES, SW, WN. The first letter was always the top left corner and the second letter was the top right. If you know these two, you can figure out the other two squares easily since it’s just the opposite side (example: opposite corner of north is south, opposite of west is east, etc.). I hope that made sense.
I didn’t really practice for the stick and throttle part of the test, but my recruiter gave me some good advice: don’t worry about being exactly on target. Just focus on staying behind and mimicking its movements. This took pressure off me and I ended up doing much better.
Everything else I did to prepare can be found on post 4462 and 4531. Just check out the entire thread, it has a bunch of good stuff.
Best of luck everyone!
Math: A lot of people recommend Khan Academy. Khan Academy is good, but I mostly used the YouTube channel “The Organic Chemistry Tutor.” The guy explains things really well and provides excellent practice problems with his lessons. I specifically studied for:
- logarithms (adding, subtracting, change of base formula)
- matrices (adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing)
- equations with fractional exponents and radicals (including multiplication with different indexes and radicals in the denominator)
- perfect numbers (6, 28, 496, 8128)
- system of equations
- finding the quantity of a series, finding the sum of that arithmetic series
Reading Comprehension: Read the passages aloud. It’ll help you stay awake.
ANIT: Flash cards. Below are the ones I used:
Comprehensive ANIT
Aviation history
Aircraft Crew/Shirt colors
US Navy Ratings
Naval Aircraft
I also looked up naval aircraft designation numbers on Wikipedia, and this for additional history
DISCLAIMER: I knew all of these flashcards and links (almost) perfectly, and I still only knew about 60-70% of the questions.
UAV: These flashcards. Whenever I saw the arrow pointing in a direction between two headings, I read it like this: NE, ES, SW, WN. The first letter was always the top left corner and the second letter was the top right. If you know these two, you can figure out the other two squares easily since it’s just the opposite side (example: opposite corner of north is south, opposite of west is east, etc.). I hope that made sense.
I didn’t really practice for the stick and throttle part of the test, but my recruiter gave me some good advice: don’t worry about being exactly on target. Just focus on staying behind and mimicking its movements. This took pressure off me and I ended up doing much better.
Everything else I did to prepare can be found on post 4462 and 4531. Just check out the entire thread, it has a bunch of good stuff.
Best of luck everyone!