GoshHawkeye said:
Heres an easy way to figure your NSS...
take your grade on the FRR exam in API and divide it by your current PRT score, then take the sum of all your CPT grades and multiply it by the number of 4's you get on FAM 7, then subract your grade on the flight line drivers course exam from 49.5 and add it to the current total, finally take this and multiply by your onwings LT ranking and you should have a pretty good idea of how your doing
You forgot to divide by the number of times your IP says "I've got controls."
Seriously though, NSS is basically a ranking against the other students that select the same week you do. It theoretically ranges from 30 to 80, with 50 being the mean score (in a mathmatical, not emotionally distressing sense). The fact is, you really can't make much sense of it until you select, and no sense at all of it until you are at Primary, so try not to worry about it too much.
I tried to figure mine out as much as possible beforehand and it cannot be done. The best you can hope for is to get some clue about your standing versus the people who you know (and are willing to share their raw score with you), but unless you know everyone at all 4 Primary locations (P'cola, Corpus, Vance, and Moody) you aren't going to know anything for sure. As sson as you think you know what's up, some joker who was laid off at Delta will come in and blow the program away with an 80 NSS, and you'll still be left sucking wind.
Again, once you get to Primary all will become clear (as mud).