Alright here’s my synopsis of the ASTB-E, again my score was 54 4,4,5 (I’m really going for SWO or Supply so the aviation portions was just a plus for me). Also I want to say what u put in is what u get out I studied 2-3 hours daily for almost 2 months, and up to 5 hours on the weekends. Just put it all out there if you want it.
Math: So hands down I spent my most time studying this because shit my last math class was a stats class 2 years ago (Health admin major). As you know it’s an intuitive test and the better you do the harder it get and the faster it will be over with. I had 2 questions similar to ‘Jim got a 80,83, and 85 on his first 3 exams, what will he have to score on the 4th to have a 85 overall’ I also had 1 probability questions that said ‘the chances of team a and b winning is .15, if team a has a 60% chance what what is the chance team b will win on any given day’. I also had 2 simplification questions, kinda simple. I finished with 18 minutes left (no lie) and I legit only solved 12 questions. Don’t stress like I did just put in work.
Reading comprehension: So because I am enlisted right now this section was more simple, the rumors of it being dry are true, it’s dry as fuck but get used to it a lot of stuff in the navy instructions is dry. Didn’t study just did the damn thing.
MC: again a section I was originally stressing about, and the test had a few questions I just straight guessed on, but for the most part know that liquids pressure is the exact same throughout, know that waters pressure is .43psi per foot, know MA of levers(which is simple). Nothing really too crazy except the few I guessed on and I’m pretty sure I got em right because they I reasoned them out. Know basic physics Bernoulli’s, Charles, and properties of an airfoil.
PBM: I’m going to preface this by saying, I studied a total of 1 hour for all of these sections because I really didn’t want aviation rates but my CO is a helo pilot and told me to just try. Ok the dichotic listening test was simple, also I did the paper thing with the UAV portion and still didn’t do great on that portion haha. Also the targeting test mixed with the dichotic listening was intense, if you can hop on a simulator do it, or like play hella driving games on super high sensitivity to practice a steady hand. Either way it was just for fun for me.
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