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1,001 questions about the ASTB (post your scores & ask your questions here!)
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WilliamCarrick
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Hello, about 6 months ago I took the OAR (just this portion, not the whole ASTB) and 2 weeks ago I took my first ASTB. Does anyone know how many more times I am allowed to take the ASTB?
Meddaughgerald
Gem0385
You only have one more try remaining.
FormerRecruitingGuru
Making Recruiting Great Again
If you paid attention to the ASTB score sheet it tells you how many attempts you can take.
Justice22293
Active Member
Thank you, Dallas! I saved your Google Drive files and plan on studying them soon. On my first OAR exam attempt last week I scored a 42 when I need a 45 to complete my Navy OCS applicant package to sit for the August board. I can't wait to get this over with July 8th on my retake. Thank you so much!
gabriellehale
Well-Known Member
Hey guys I am taking my OAR wednesday and am so nervous! I have done the practice pro profs and they seem to be riddled with errors and then I have been on cram, bought an OAR book (its red), and one that is yellow and the Barrons mechanical comprehension booklet. I am worried on the reading, my books have either been full lengthened passages with questions about the passage or just sentence description from the passage. I do not know what to do or think or feel!!! Someone send some good thoughts and advice 
Just finished my ASTB-E and thanks to this everyone that has contributed on this thread I did alright.
51 7/8/7
BS History Oregon State 3.02 GPA
AD Navy Diver
The ProProf Flash cards may have been the most helpful for me.
All that aside, the software for the ASTB kinda sucks. I ended having to retake the first 3 sections multiple times, and the computer lost network numerous times. The mechanical section was a breeze but the program froze as I selected around my 9th-10th question, and once the computer was restarted it just spit out an OAR score which was frustrating.
Thanks again to everyone that continues to contribute.
51 7/8/7
BS History Oregon State 3.02 GPA
AD Navy Diver
The ProProf Flash cards may have been the most helpful for me.
All that aside, the software for the ASTB kinda sucks. I ended having to retake the first 3 sections multiple times, and the computer lost network numerous times. The mechanical section was a breeze but the program froze as I selected around my 9th-10th question, and once the computer was restarted it just spit out an OAR score which was frustrating.
Thanks again to everyone that continues to contribute.
gabriellehale
Well-Known Member
Averages, probability, time and distance, and systems of equations
gabriellehale
Well-Known Member
Took my OAR, bunked it with a 37, recruiter said take it in a month and not to be discouraged cause he’s seen worse. I got kicked out of the math with 14 minutes and felt confident on the mechanical. Only issue for me really was the reading, never been strong at reading but will focus on all sections now rather than just the math and mechanical. Did not know how to study for reading, any tips or pointers?
Weird question, but can I bring gum into the testing facility? Also, is there a urinalysis that occurs on test day or is that only at MEPs? I don't want to go into the test fully hydrated and sitting around with a full bladder and losing focus while stressing over problems.
There is no urinalysis, and yeah, gum should be fine.
exNavyOffRec
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reading this after a long day I did not see "gum" I saw "gun" and when I read your response I was going WTF, then I read it again lol
What were your other scores? Did you have any logs for the math portion?
I took my first ASTB on Tuesday. I decided to take it after only about 2.5 weeks of studying (a couple hours a day maybe 5x a week and a few 5-6 hour sessions over the past weekend) to gauge where I stood and to give my time to retake, if need be, before submitting my SNA package. I ended up doing much better than I expected on my first try (71 9/9/9) and will obviously be submitting this score.
A little bit about myself: Prior USMC enlisted aircrew with a little more than 900 hrs. time, finishing an Aerospace Engineering degree at USC (SoCal, not Carolina) with a 3.25 GPA thats still slowly trending up, total military aviation/plane nerd (constantly watching documentaries and reading), FAA SEL private pilot, and Operations Analyst for a major defense company. Honestly after taking the test, I feel as if my background set me up almost perfectly to succeed. As far as study guides go, I primarily used the gouge here and the Barons book to study a little bit of everything. The majority of my time was spent relearning how to work with multiply/divide and work with fractions by hand again because in the engineering world I almost never don't use a calculator. I read probably 100+ pages of this thread which really helped calm my nerves about what I would see on the test and how I would feel like I was constantly bombing it. I don't have a whole lot to say about the test itself that hasn't been said here already (seriously just click back to page 250 or so and start reading), but am going to post some of my thoughts on the sections and can answer any questions you all have.
Math: Started easy but became challenging fairly quickly. Lots of D=RT problems comparing two peoples movement towards or away from each other. Had a couple fairly complicated solve for x or simplify questions. No logs, no binary. Got kicked out with maybe 3 minutes left.
Reading: Dry. Painfully so. Some passages obviously pulled from Navy pubs and others from what seemed like science text books. First couple were easy, and got much more cryptic and difficult quickly. Towards the end I was usually only able to narrow down to two options and make an educated guess. Kicked out with about 5 minutes left.
Mechanical: Honestly much harder (as an engineer) than I thought it was going to be. Had a couple straightforward ones and then a couple fairly complicated pulley questions. One pulley question asked for the names of a particular cascaded set-up (atkinson or wilkins or something else) which I had no idea whatsoever of. Almost no actual math done on this one, just focused on concepts. Ran the clock all the way down to 0:00 on this one.
ANIT: Straightforward, study the gouge on here, read about/understand airplanes, know a little bit of nautical info.
NATFI: Exactly what you expect, sometimes the two statements are easy to choose, sometimes niether is really true about you. In those cases I tried to answer based off of what the traits of the better naval aviations I flew with or what made more sense for what would make a successful pilot. The Navy/Marine Corps likes people who stick to checklists and follow flight rules.
UAV: Used the compass trick. Got one wrong and all the rest correct. Average time was probably somewhere in the 2-3 second range with a couple 4 sec. outliers.
Dichotic Listening: Not terribly difficult, the volume on the headphones was cranked up which I felt like helped. Missed one or two numbers just by clicking the wrong button (left for odd, right for even), but maybe it still registers that you heard a number read?
Vertical Tracking: Starts easy, gets worse. Probably was able to keep the target green for 70% of the excercise.
2-D Tracking: Tough, although I'm a pilot and play flight sims fairly reguarly the inverted axis with absolutely no outside reference (black screen in the test) makes it very counter-intuitive. Probably tracked for 45%-50% of the excercise.
Combined: Absolute mess. Just get through it. Had both green for<10% of the excercise.
Combined with Dichotic: Somehow easier than without the dichotic. Guess you're kind of distracted and go into a more auto-pilot mode. Probably tracked ~10% of the time and missed 1 or 2 of the number callouts.
Emergency Procedures: Write them down pocket checklist style, take 2 seconds to identify the problem and fix it while not really worrying about controlling the plane, get back to flying and put the control wheels back to a neutral setting before the next emergency. Didn't miss any procedures here and probably took ~4 seconds to fix the problems.
Good luck to everyone else taking the test. Hope I get to see you all in Pensacola!
A little bit about myself: Prior USMC enlisted aircrew with a little more than 900 hrs. time, finishing an Aerospace Engineering degree at USC (SoCal, not Carolina) with a 3.25 GPA thats still slowly trending up, total military aviation/plane nerd (constantly watching documentaries and reading), FAA SEL private pilot, and Operations Analyst for a major defense company. Honestly after taking the test, I feel as if my background set me up almost perfectly to succeed. As far as study guides go, I primarily used the gouge here and the Barons book to study a little bit of everything. The majority of my time was spent relearning how to work with multiply/divide and work with fractions by hand again because in the engineering world I almost never don't use a calculator. I read probably 100+ pages of this thread which really helped calm my nerves about what I would see on the test and how I would feel like I was constantly bombing it. I don't have a whole lot to say about the test itself that hasn't been said here already (seriously just click back to page 250 or so and start reading), but am going to post some of my thoughts on the sections and can answer any questions you all have.
Math: Started easy but became challenging fairly quickly. Lots of D=RT problems comparing two peoples movement towards or away from each other. Had a couple fairly complicated solve for x or simplify questions. No logs, no binary. Got kicked out with maybe 3 minutes left.
Reading: Dry. Painfully so. Some passages obviously pulled from Navy pubs and others from what seemed like science text books. First couple were easy, and got much more cryptic and difficult quickly. Towards the end I was usually only able to narrow down to two options and make an educated guess. Kicked out with about 5 minutes left.
Mechanical: Honestly much harder (as an engineer) than I thought it was going to be. Had a couple straightforward ones and then a couple fairly complicated pulley questions. One pulley question asked for the names of a particular cascaded set-up (atkinson or wilkins or something else) which I had no idea whatsoever of. Almost no actual math done on this one, just focused on concepts. Ran the clock all the way down to 0:00 on this one.
ANIT: Straightforward, study the gouge on here, read about/understand airplanes, know a little bit of nautical info.
NATFI: Exactly what you expect, sometimes the two statements are easy to choose, sometimes niether is really true about you. In those cases I tried to answer based off of what the traits of the better naval aviations I flew with or what made more sense for what would make a successful pilot. The Navy/Marine Corps likes people who stick to checklists and follow flight rules.
UAV: Used the compass trick. Got one wrong and all the rest correct. Average time was probably somewhere in the 2-3 second range with a couple 4 sec. outliers.
Dichotic Listening: Not terribly difficult, the volume on the headphones was cranked up which I felt like helped. Missed one or two numbers just by clicking the wrong button (left for odd, right for even), but maybe it still registers that you heard a number read?
Vertical Tracking: Starts easy, gets worse. Probably was able to keep the target green for 70% of the excercise.
2-D Tracking: Tough, although I'm a pilot and play flight sims fairly reguarly the inverted axis with absolutely no outside reference (black screen in the test) makes it very counter-intuitive. Probably tracked for 45%-50% of the excercise.
Combined: Absolute mess. Just get through it. Had both green for<10% of the excercise.
Combined with Dichotic: Somehow easier than without the dichotic. Guess you're kind of distracted and go into a more auto-pilot mode. Probably tracked ~10% of the time and missed 1 or 2 of the number callouts.
Emergency Procedures: Write them down pocket checklist style, take 2 seconds to identify the problem and fix it while not really worrying about controlling the plane, get back to flying and put the control wheels back to a neutral setting before the next emergency. Didn't miss any procedures here and probably took ~4 seconds to fix the problems.
Good luck to everyone else taking the test. Hope I get to see you all in Pensacola!