Just retook and scored a 61 8/9/7. I'll skip some stuff because I already covered everything in my post regarding my first attempt, but BLUF is that there is no secret - the more you study and prepare, the better your scores will be. If you are a student, I highly recommend waiting to take it towards the end of your summer/winter break, and using that time off to dedicate to this test. As a student on break, I was able to dedicate 4-6 hours of prep time 6 days a week for about 2.5 weeks. From the info I found, your
math scores most significantly influence the AQR, and your
ANIT score most significantly influences the PFAR. Therefore, 1.5 hours each day was dedicated towards focusing on the math concepts I was least confident in. Another 1 hour or so was spent studying for the ANIT. The remaining 1-3 hours was spent on everything else, usually practicing jantsen's sim with the X52 and some light reading and mechanical review.
Math - Got a couple probability, percents, algebraic simplification, exponential and geometry questions. You should try to answer each question as quickly and accurately as possible, but I think there is an emphasis on accurate. While I answered most questions in under a minute, they started to get pretty hard pretty quickly. For one problem, it took me 2 minutes or so to even comprehend what was being asked, and then another 2 minutes or so to do the math because it was a tough one. I remember the final answer being in percents despite my math giving me a pretty complex fraction, something like 33/507 or something. So being able to convert a fraction that complicated to the nearest percent is something you should be able to do. Point being, if it takes you a while to figure out a problem- don't freak out. Both times I've taken the test it kicked me out before the time was up. That means I could've spent more time on problems I skipped because I didn't think I could've finished them in a reasonable amount of time. The hard problems that take a while are there to test you, and I think if you get a couple hard ones right you will get a better score than getting a bunch of medium questions right and guessing on the hard ones.
ANIT - I remember about 30-40% of these were Naval questions instead of aviation related, so don't sleep on those naval flashcards! One question was how much AVGAS would you need to dump if you are x lbs overweight, so know AVGAS weighs 6 lbs/gal. Know your runway/taxiway light colors. I think there was one on flight heading for a given altitude. I wish I remembered more specifics but I don't. I'll link the flashcards I used to study below. I also continued work on my PPL, so while I didn't review FAR/AIM too much, you really should if you haven't. Start with the important chapters outlined in Kyle's guide.
PBM - If the OAR app is good for anything, its the UAV portion (the rest of the app is kinda dogshit, lot of spelling errors and incorrect answers on the tests. Use the google drives for everything else). I didn't use the compass trick and while I missed 3 or 4 on the UAV I answered most in under 2 seconds. For the PBM, you have to invest time into it. Practice Jantsenz's every single day. Keep track of your scores each session in an excel sheet and average them out, I noticed the scores kept getting better and better every day, and that boosted the shit out of my confidence. Using the same setup as described in my last post (I think monitor resolution and framerate effect the scores the sim give), I was able to get my average down to about 100/80 for stick/throttle the night before the test on the hardest difficulty. Real thing was maybe medium difficulty. You can practice dichotic listening by binding the thumb button on the throttle to odds and trigger on the stick to evens, which is same as the test. Since the sim only gives odds in one ear and evens in the other, just flip your headphones around each time so you get used to either odds or evens in both ears. Regarding emergency procedures, hypothetically speaking listen to what flyinggamecock said in the past couple of pages...... hypothetically. If you are looking for motivation while you practice, look up these
historical aviation music videos that are pretty popular right now.
I'm going to repeat it because its really just that simple and important, you need to study and practice
as much as you can. I'm an engineering student between semesters, so I could spent the majority of my time prepping for 2.5 weeks. I'm going to sound like a massive douche here, but if you aren't great at math, or you don't know anything about aviation, you need to study more than me. If you work 8 hours a day and can only study for an hour before bed, you need to plan on studying more than a couple weeks out. You need to grind. If this seems like a daunting amount of time, just know you can do it! Think about how badly you want it. Learn to push yourself now, because when you get into the military you will push yourself
every day. You need to go into it feeling confident. If you are testing tomorrow and you don't, consider asking your recruiter to push it back a month. Remember, you only get 3 chances at this. Good luck, and thanks for everyone in this thread who helped me!
Kyle's drive:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1AvPi5oH_h_13TGajDvflDWkftwXO8LS6
Gomez' drive:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1IxIizps2bu2ljw1bYjFPajWv8RYvLWyv
Some ANIT flashcard sets:
https://quizlet.com/64521796/astb-aviationnautical-information-flash-cards/?x=1jqt
https://www.cram.com/flashcards/mem...l-information-test-anit-comprehensive-4718163
One last tip - this last board was brutal. If you wanted SNA, you didn't get it without a 9 somewhere. Idk if it will get less competitive any time soon (probably not, sounds like the pipeline is pretty backed up), but if you want success you should aim for the fucking moon.
Look at these results every day before you start studying to remind yourself you need to ball the fuck out on this test if you want success. Good luck
