Ask away.
If you score high enough to be an officer then you can take the aviation test, basically, the recruiters won't let you out of that place until you do. If you pass that then they'll really smell blood and probably want to do physicals, interviews, PRT test all right away...at this point you might want to grab the nearest broom and fight your way out of there! I hope your on the ground floor, if not then I quess you could jump from a window and aim for a garbage pile.
I'm kidding, but seriously, the atmosphere inside a recruiters office is frightenengly similiar to a car dealership, I've spent too much time in both! Just like salesman smell a sale, once a recruiter smells a quota notch (and if you pass the tests they will) the pressure is gonne be on you bigtime!! Make sure this is somthing you want to do and don't ever sign anything you don't completely understand! I don't know if they told you this yet, but to be an officer you have to join, upfront, for four years! If for some reason you don't complete flight scool you'll owe them the rest of that time in a field the Navy choses! If you get wings as a helo pilot you owe then six more years, and if you become a fixed wing pilot(jet or prop) you owe them eight! This may be a dumb question since your on this site, but are you interseted in being a pilot by the way?
As for the minimum score required...I can't recall exactly so I just made a call to my recruiter (a waste of time) asking about how many correct answers/points you need. He mumbled about his drawer being locked, interrogated me about coming back in to re-test, and finally said that: "a configured minimum score of forty" is required to qualify as an officer, and then you take the aviation part, and then they configure some other score. Sounds like he has no f@%$ing idea how it works, I get the feeling that I know more about it then he does, but I quess that's my problem. Call your recruiter and see if he can tell you.
Bottom line: you need to be an oficer to fly and to do that you have to pass the officer test, if you pass then you take the flight test. You may pass all these tests but remember, selection for flight school is competetive, just passing isn't good enough. My outlook is this: right now, all across the country, hundreds of graduates with science, engineering and math degrees are applying for a handful of student naval aviators slots, to be selected you have to look like a better candidate and that means high test scores(among other things).
Yes, I am planning to re-test. My study guides include: Arco officer candidate tests (which I broke down and bought) and the companion book: Military flight aptitude tests. Another Arco book is: How to solve algebra word problems (which the test has lots of) this book is great cuz I suck at that kind of math. Also I have books on boating, electronics, geometry and my flight manual from when I took flying lessons. If your good at math then all I would recommend are the two Arco books to familiarize yourself with the types of questions as well as the test.
As for the atmosphere of the test, well in all honesty I took it twice, and both times they're were only two other people there with me, but I've heard about there being twenty or more people, it all depends on your station and area I guess. It's like an SAT or entrance exam. They give you a #2 pencil, scrap paper, and then lecture for twenty minutes before letting you fill in all the little dots.
Pheew!! I hope this helps. Again, good luck!
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Edited by - Dave Shutter on 9 May 2000