Study and try again. PFAR of 5 is not going to get you there. buy a joystick and throttle and play the simulator. On the bright side since you're shooting for august you have time.
If you haven’t already, check out the results from the last board, you can see what the average scores are. From a cursory look the lowest PFAR score picked up was a 6, and that was one person at a bigger board with more spots. You’re gonna want to shoot for 7+ on the PFAR, the rest doesn’t matter as much from my understanding.
This was discussed a BUNCH in the may board thread. All your answers are in there
Don't worry about LOR's, the board doesn't, get the application in
first thing is if you want to be a SNA **DO NOT SUBMIT FOR SNFO** there have been several that put SNA and SNFO and were given a N for SNA and a Y for SNFO even though they had the scores for SNA.
There seems to be more of a need for SNFOs right now so many who put both were getting no for SNA but yes for SNFO, the stopped giving yes to both.
Yes, waived is not really waived, it just means you can go to board, they can still consider what you did.
you should be fine. Obviously striving for all tens but they might just not want to explain that ten. 9 is fine anything less is iffy.