Talk:Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery

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Contents 1 Update required 2 Testing for officers 3 Is it an IQ test? 4 Navy scores 5 VE 6 Are these percentiles? 7 Air Force requirements

[edit] Update required

The definition of the composite scores for this article are outdated as of 2002. Someone should update them. And it'd also be nice if someone could provide additional informtion on how the VE score is calculated. Could we get a copy of this table that the article references? - Shaheenjim 23:06, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Testing for officers

The airforce personnel Center has a report builder tool for demographics reports:

http://www.afpc.randolph.af.mil/vbin/broker8.exe?_program=ideas.IDEAS_Step1.sas&_service=vpool1&_debug=0

I see the AFWT as a report category for enlisted men, but I do not see it for officers. Is this test used uniformly to place all armed forces personnel or only enlisted men?

24.206.125.213 20:09, 2 July 2006 (UTC)NMIKESCI

[edit] Is it an IQ test?

It's an IQ test. - Unsigned comment by 69.72.40.42

Is it only an IQ test, or does it also measure skills acquired, psycological factors, amd other measures of potential success/failure probabilities. - Comment by 24.206.125.213

The ASVAB is not an IQ test. That is an important point. You may have a very high IQ, but be poorly educated and thus score poorly on the ASVAB. Rather, it is a test of academics (paragraph comprehension, arithmetic reasoning, word knowlege, et cetera), with a time constraint element to it (i.e., the different tests are timed. For example, you may have only 15 minutes to answer a series of math questions, and so on). - Unsigned comment by 65.202.240.54

[edit] Navy scores

Where is Navy explained? Navy: what are ENG, ADM, GT, Mec, HM, Mec2, EL, Nuc, Bee, Ops? - Unsigned comment by 172.192.150.179

[edit] VE

and what is VE on the standard scores? - Unsigned comment by 172.192.150.179

[edit] Are these percentiles?

Are the standard scores percentiles? - Unsigned comment by 172.192.150.179

[edit] Air Force requirements

Isnt the required score to join the air force 36? - Unsigned comment by AceMan14