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1,001 questions about the ASTB (post your scores & ask your questions here!)

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maowczykowski1

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Hey there! im new to the forum. I just have a general question for now.

Does anyone out there know what section each section of the trest is weighted based off your score. PFR PFRA etc?
thanks
 
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stassirow

Member
Jordheim said:
What did you guys use for the mechanical comprehension part? I've been studying the math section heavily with the google drives posted here. This does include the Mechanical comprehension part, but most of that is very difficult for me to understand. I have almost no prior knowledge about the subject. Do you guys have any recommendations for introduction level for me to build my knowledge on?
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Use all the attachments that is provided on this thread. Also, youtube Khans Academy and I swear it goes in depth of everything.
 
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Kbcyclist

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Hi all, second ASTB attempt coming up soon (first 53 6/6/6, want to bump up for pilot). Trying to recall the correct color/direction of the knobs in the emergency procedures (green, yellow, red): Is green "highest," or "red." I think I missed the first procedure for that reason my first attempt, and have been scouring the site and racking my brain to remember that detail. Thanks (and apologies if previously addressed)
 
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Howler24

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First post.

First, and hopefully only, ASTB attempt is February 10th. Thanks to everyone who has shared and re-posted study guide and gouge material. Averaging 2-3 hours of studying 3-4 days a week while balancing school, involvement, and work. Hoping I'm putting enough time in for it to pay off this first go around. My letter of recommendations are in and now waiting for my medical records to be released so I can get to MEPS.

Two questions.

1) I asked my OR today if I could take the BI-VR portion before my test date. She responded that she was unaware of what I was referencing. Am I mistaken?

2) Other than Kyle's study guides, gouge materiel, and Khan Academy, are there any more resources anyone has used to review for the math portion of the ASTB?

Grateful to be here.
 
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ASTB Visualization Practice.zip

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Here is a program to practice the UAV section. A jet friend made this for me when we were both in NROTC. Methodology is still the same. Think of it as "if I was in the cockpit, which way would I have to look to see the target" and then choose the option on the right that corresponds. It does not have to be a fancy north/south problem or require a paper drawn tool. For example: if you are flying south, and you have to point out the east target, you would have to look 90 deg over to your left shoulder - so on the right you choose the left option. Same idea applies for NNW or SSE type problems.

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Ahansen0408

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Hi! I just took the ASTB this week and got a 53 6/7/8.

Wasn't going to post anything, but this forum helped me immensely so just wanted to thank everyone who has posted in this forum with resources and advice for the exam, it helped!
 
dxfan06

dxfan06

Hopeful SNA-Dreadful Runner
hello all! second time taking the ASTB in a week and im having just a terrible time grasping the spatial apperception section. The arrow and compass questions and such are easy enough, but i always seem to lose it with the yellow triangle type of questions. how do you determine which direction your facing? Is it the fat, wide end or the short pointed end?
 
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blackcoffeeandadanish

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dxfan06 said:
hello all! second time taking the ASTB in a week and im having just a terrible time grasping the spatial apperception section. The arrow and compass questions and such are easy enough, but i always seem to lose it with the yellow triangle type of questions. how do you determine which direction your facing? Is it the fat, wide end or the short pointed end?
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short pointed end iirc
 
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Clark781

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blackcoffeeandadanish said:
I took it a few months ago, 8/7/8, OAR 65, so I don't remember a lot of the questions. Best tips I could give is to go through all of the google drive gouges posted here and print out the material. There are a lot of duplicates so just keep track, it'll be too much paper if you print out everything. Second thing is that when you're studying, circle the questions you get wrong. Then go over the material a second time and write down in a notebook, the steps or forumlas (mostly for physics but some for math) that you need to take to solve that particular problem. The barrons book will help you with the mechanical/physics section and the aviation knowledge. It's useless for math (way way too easy) and reading (passage format is not similar to the exams).

Math: Harder than I expected. The study guides that helped the most were "Petersons Practice Test 4: Arithmetic Reasoning" and the "OAR Math Practice Guide" by Carlos Miro. You can find it in Kyles ASTB study guide's math section. In general, understand logs, exponents and radicals and how to solve a complex equation involving potentially all 3 of them. Understand probability, series/sequences and some basic statistics.

Reading: Dry, boring. You may get repeated passages if you take the ASTB more than once. Read some Navy documents of this form (https://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-...ions/BUPERSInstructions/Documents/1001.40.pdf ). Read the question first, then look for the answer in the passage.

Mech: Easiest section, do the gouge material. Write down, memorize and understand where the forumlas come from that you will need to use during the exam. You'll do fine if you put in the work for this section before hand.

ANIT: Read the cram flashcards, read the Barrons books section on aviation and read a few chapters of the FAA handbook (no need to know the more complicated stuff in the book). Can be pretty random, I read the entire FAA book and thought I was doing horrible on this section.

NATFI: Just be honest here, you can answer the questions according to the bad/good personality traits for pilots listed in the FAA handbook but I suggest not to. It'll be too hard to keep track (they seem to repeat questions) and you'll waste time/brain power thinking about which traits they're looking for. I almost felt like it wouldn't really effect the score if I had picked entirely different answers than the ones I did.

UAV: Watch the Youtube compass trick video, I'm sure you've all seen it posted here before. Then practice the UAV flashcards a few times. Do it quickly, as quick as you possibly can without error, even a few extra seconds can hurt your score. It may not feel like a big difference between 10 seconds and 4 seconds, but this portion seems to care about the time a lot.

PBM: Hardest section. For the listening, zero in on the ear you're told to (I titlted my head towards the right if it was the right ear lol). This will be redundant but forget about the ear you're supposed to ignore. I played War Thunder in prep for the rest. I bought a thrustmaster controller. During the exam, when you push forward on the throttle (the left part of the controller) the crosshair moves up, and when you pull the throttle towards you the crosshair moves down. For the joystick (the right part of the controller), pushing the joystick forward moves the crosshair down and pulling the joystick towards you moves the crosshair up. Right down the emergency procedures controls before that section starts so that you don't forgot them. Just try to do your best here and don't panic or give up if you think you're doing bad (note: everyone probably thinks they're doing bad on this section).

Good luck!
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Congrats on the great score. I am just starting the proceeds of talking with an OR and getting all my paperwork in order. As I was reading your post I noticed you mentioned “google drive gouges” for studying. How do I find these documents?

Thank you
 
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Clark781 said:
Congrats on the great score. I am just starting the proceeds of talking with an OR and getting all my paperwork in order. As I was reading your post I noticed you mentioned “google drive gouges” for studying. How do I find these documents?

Thank you
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If you scroll back through this forum you’ll see ones posted and linked to by other users, including myself.
 
Jordheim

Jordheim

Member
Is anyone able to clarify or dispel a rumor given to me by my math tutor for the ASTB. He's stating that scores are affected by the time of the month; meaning that if I take the test at the first of a month, my score will be higher than if i took the test at the end of the month. Is this rumor mail and he's full of shit, or is there some validity to this statement? Being that its Feb 5; should I wait til march to take the OAR? I'm close to aging out and that is my main concern.
 
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