The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery more known as the ASVAB, is a enlistment testing program that high-school students and post-secondary success students can take that measures their abilities and tests their chance of potentially pursuing a career in the military.
The ASVAB tests you in four different areas, Math, Verbal, Science and Technical, and Spatial with subtests as well. Prior to taking the ASVAB a military recruiter will do a screening on the applicant and ask various yet important questions. If the recruiter approves the applicant to be qualified to take the ASVAB on the screening, a scheduled time to take the test will be made and a physical exam may be performed. ASVAB testing is normally done at Military Entrance Processing Stations on paper and pencil or on a computer.
The ASVAB scores are standard scores, applicants will also be given a score on the AFQT, Armed Forces Qualification Test, that is based off the four subtests of the ASVAB, Arithmetic Reasoning, Mathematics Knowledge, Paragraph Comprehension, and Word Knowledge. Applicants are given 3 to 4 hours to complete the multiple choice packet, they cannot go back to change answers in a pervious subtest or start the next one unless their test instructor told them to do so. Subtests have the same number of questions and their own time limit for each.
There are 3 different versions of the ASVAB. The CAT-ASVAB, The MET-site ASVAB, and The Student ASVAB. The CAT-ASVAB is the Computerized Adaptive Testing, if you finish a subtest it automatically let’s you move on to the next, you cannot change an answer after one is selected and the questions adapt to if you answer correctly or incorrectly. The MET-ASVAB is the test given at the Mobile Examination Test site. The Student-ASVAB is given to high school and college students, this version is typically on pen and paper.
