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1,001 questions about the ASTB (post your scores & ask your questions here!)
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NevarYalnal
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try barrons astb
Oski510
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What do you mean by "the ASTB portion" ? I thought the ASTB was the OAR? Sorry, I'm a bit of a newbie.
Oshun8235
Active Member
ASTB portion having everything to do with aviation. That's the only big difference. OAR is just the first 3 sections of the test.
PEFO Silver-Shades
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The OAR has to do with the Mechanical comprehension, Mathematic reasoning, and Reading Comprehension. The OAR alone is used to submit to any boards that are not aviation related (Supply, Intel, Even AMDO i believe). the ASTB is a combination of the OAR and 4 additional Tests. the ANIT (which is Knowledge of aviation, Nautical, and History of the Navy), NATFI ( which gives you two different statements and you pick the one that represents you the closest), the PBM (this has a combination of the UAV portion, Dichotic listening and joystick and throttle with a couple of emergency situations), and lastly the BI-RV (this helps determine your past experiences with flying). after the test youll be given a score (Exp. 65 7/7/7) the OAR portion is the 65 whereas the 7/7/7 is the ASTB.
Oski510
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Got it this was very helpful, I've been trying to get a score breakdown like this one and you just gave it to me, many thanks!
Andrew_franny
Active Member
For the joystick and throttle portion, does anyone think that playing Star Wars squadrons on hotas would be good practice?
Oski510
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Yes that will definitely help. But nothing can really prepare you to track two targets at once. Just remember to breathe and keep your eyes in between both targets, using peripheral vision to track both simultaneously.
PEFO Silver-Shades
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This may sound stupid to some but i used this to help focus on multi tasking
MultiTask Games | MultiTaskGames.com
Your Home of the Multitask Games and Game 1 and 2. Test your skills with these games to test your multitasking abilities.
Andrew_franny
Active Member
Just tried this, it's actually wildly entertaining with really apparent benefits. Serious thanks for posting this link.This may sound stupid to some but i used this to help focus on multi tasking
MultiTask Games | MultiTaskGames.com
Your Home of the Multitask Games and Game 1 and 2. Test your skills with these games to test your multitasking abilities.multitaskgames.com
Oski510
Well-Known Member
This may sound stupid to some but i used this to help focus on multi tasking
MultiTask Games | MultiTaskGames.com
Your Home of the Multitask Games and Game 1 and 2. Test your skills with these games to test your multitasking abilities.
wow I take back what I said, I just tried the "multitask game" and this can definitely help you! You can use that same peripheral vision concept I talked about earlier!
RNeptune
Member
Hey everyone! I take the ASTB on Friday and have been taking practice tests and studying like crazy. As I am sure that everyone is aware, there is so much material that I know I wont remember all of it but would like to make sure I at least go over most of it. So If anyone has any last minute advice or need to know things please reach out! Thank you!
Manage your time during the test to answer every question. If you need to write down the section start time and time allotted for each section along with an end time, that can help with time management. I found taking 10-15 seconds to write that info on a scratch sheet of paper at the beginning of each section helped with moving myself along through the different sections of the test and I never ran out of time.
For the ASTB just pay attention to the instructions and don't over complicate it.
RNeptune
Member
Thank you! that sounds like a great idea. Would you be willing to do a break down on certain material for each section I should focus on to finish up studying?
You're taking the ASTB so I'm assuming you're wanting to go SNA and/or NFO as first or second pick?
If you haven't already, go find some private pilot certification review videos on YouTube, they should be an hour long or more and go over a ton of aviation info and sections that will prep or supplement your aviation knowledge.
It's my opinion that a lot of the math and language sections are kind of set in stone for you now being a week out, so focus on your weak sections exclusively in the last week with minor review in everything else here and there.
It's an adaptive test so it will be slightly different for everyone.