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

[Mouselovr]

I just retook today, I scored 62 7/7/7. Even with a 3.7 GPA my recruiter sounded a bit pesimistic. Either way, I hit my goal score and I'm happy about that, if things don't turn out I'll make other plans.

I didn't do anything exceptional with studying. Kyle's gouge, the Jantzen sim, the UAV flashcards, just the normal stuff.

For NFOs specifically, does anyone know what kind of odds 7/7/7 has right now?

Kick ass scores. Kick ass GPA.
You did better than me and a lot of my peers who got picked up for pilot.
Worst case scenario, you retake.

I found recruiters simply dont want to promise anything bc you getting PROREC Y or N is out of their control once its in front of a board.

 

[exNavyOffRec]

I might have come off wrong, he said my odds are "a coinflip", so it depends on what you consider pessimistic

I would say the same thing.

 

[csanfilippo9]

I would say the same thing.

Can confirm , he did also tell me the same thing.

 

[lhodges]

Send me your email and I’ll send you a whole folder of study materials. I can’t speak to the navy side as I am going marines but I know for a fact my OSO has given out age waivers for air contracts. I also know that on the marine side GPA doesn’t seem to be very important as I know student aviators as well as current pilots who had low 3 GPA’s in non-technical degrees.

Would you send me the study materials?

Mod edit: Recommend using PMs to exchange personal email addresses

 

[Sauceboss313]

First post here on AW. Hey all. I'm taking the ASTB tomorrow for the second time. Will post the results the following day. My first score was a 56 6/5/6 which was taken last year. Got a question about the emergency procedures. Specifically, do the indicators for fuel and power in the bottom-right corner move directly with the knob input to visually tell you your current position? I linked the image for better clarity

 

[bcal]

Does anyone know how to configure the joystick? I have a MacBook Pro. Everytime I plug my joystick in it doesn’t pick it up.

I have a MacBook Pro and got it to work. What kind of joystick do you have?

 

[II Sevv]

First post here on AW. Hey all. I'm taking the ASTB tomorrow for the second time. Will post the results the following day. My first score was a 56 6/5/6 which was taken last year. Got a question about the emergency procedures. Specifically, do the indicators for fuel and power in the bottom-right corner move directly with the knob input to visually tell you your current position? I linked the image for better clarity

Yes, they move on screen accordingly, but on my setup my recruiter didn’t give me dials. I had 3 up/down sliders like a dimmer switch. Also, contrary to what others have mentioned, when I took the test it DID NOT matter what position the switch was in when the emergency procedure initiated, as long as the sliders were in the correct position when I pressed the clutch button. In other words, let’s say it wanted the fuel to be completely off, if the fuel was already off it registered that position. Others have said that even if their sliders were in the correct position, that they needed to move them to neutral then to the correct position to get credit. That didn’t happen to me.

 

[II Sevv]

Also, WRITE DOWN your emergency procedures. I did, and I dropped the joystick and was able to clear each emergency within about a second of it popping up. I got a 9 on this section so I have a feeling that the scoring system more heavily weights the dichotic listening and emergency clearing. Others have also said to tilt your head in the direction of the ear to listen to, but I found this extremely unhelpful as it completely threw off my ability to accurately track both objects on the screen. I just mentally focused on one ear and had no issues. The only time I might have pressed the wrong button is when I couldn’t distinguish between a number and a letter that sounded extremely similar

 

[II Sevv]

Another tip for the tracking: my throttle had a horrible dead spot in the middle, then started to move extremely fast once off center. As a result I wasn’t able to perfectly track the vertically moving object as I would overshoot its position. Instead, I modulated it up and down slightly, “covering” the target, and this also made it much easier to just watch it out of my peripheral vision and focus more on the 2 axis joystick target.

 

[Anthony2000]

I have a MacBook Pro and got it to work. What kind of joystick do you have?

Are you talking about the Jantzen sim right? I have the Logitech 20 dollar one lol. Did you download any software or anything to configure it? Let me know!

 

[Sauceboss313]

Another tip for the tracking: my throttle had a horrible dead spot in the middle, then started to move extremely fast once off center. As a result I wasn’t able to perfectly track the vertically moving object as I would overshoot its position. Instead, I modulated it up and down slightly, “covering” the target, and this also made it much easier to just watch it out of my peripheral vision and focus more on the 2 axis joystick target.

I had the same experience when I did it last year. I believe there is a curvature setting built into the throttle so the upper and lower limits would travel faster than inputs near neutral.

 

[Sauceboss313]

I came to find out that my testing date was set on a federal holiday today (Juneteenth) and there was no one there when I arrived. Didn't get a message about it from the OR until a few hours later. Date was moved to next week.

 

[jew56]

I came to find out that my testing date was set on a federal holiday today (Juneteenth) and there was no one there when I arrived. Didn't get a message about it from the OR until a few hours later. Date was moved to next week.

The exact same situation happened to me too! Test date pushed to next week. Positive side is that’s another week of studying and preparing.

 

[S.B.H.W.M]

I took the ASTB-E a while back and spent a decent amount of time studying all the material for the OAR and ANIT portions of the test. I feel sort of ready but I can't find sufficient practice test materials online to test my abilities. Anyone got any suggestions?

 

[Dwaldron924]

Quick question for y’all. I’ve been told by my OSO I need to get a 56-60 on my ASTB score to be picked up for the October board. I have taken the ASTB once and bombed my first attempt. The upside is I am physically qualified with no waivers and took my first test after meps(made for one long day). My college GPA was a 2.5, didn’t study as hard as I should have back then, that being said, if I can increase my score even with my GPA do I have a fighting chance at getting selected for NFO in October?