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

[CoMa]

1 attempt today..
37 3/4/4
CFI MEI with 600 hours.
That joystick thing was way harder than i thought.
Do i still have a chance?

Absolutely, you still have 2 attempts left. Now since you are familiar with the test, focus on where you felt weak at. Most people perform a lot better on their second or third attempts anyways. There is a lot of vital information here in this thread so read through all of it. If you want this career bad enough you will grind and study your butt off to ensure you do well.

 

[JTayorinde]

Hello everyone. I wrote the ASTB exam today. (OAR- 54)(AQR-7 )(PFAR-8 )(FOFAR-7)(LPSS-60)

Thank you to everyone on this forum for contributing.
I have nothing really to add to what everyone has said. {follow the drives, and make the astb prep app as your second bible}
If you have any questions, feel free to inbox me.

With those scores, i believe i qualify for the immediate select portion. Is that correct?
If yes, how do I know when my next shipment date will be?
also any information on what i should be doing next as per preparation will be nice too.


Once again, thank you to everyone.

 

[jhud]

1st attempt today,
35 4,7,5
Did research how to do well for astb and lead me to this website.

 

[georgethegreat]

Downloaded AntiMicroX, found a zip, extracted it and loaded it into MicroX. When you open it you should see Axis 1 and 2 at the top under the DPads section. After setting axis 1 to "mouse (horizontal)" and axis 2 to "mouse (vertical)" click on each axis and you should find a min and max deadzone slider right in front of you to adjust. Don't forget to configure your throttle (axis 3) to -W and +S and do the same. I had it default at 6000 and 32000, but I saw a excel sheet and people were using 3000 as the min. I just did 18 on the Jantzen sim in a row on 100% difficult and I'm getting anywhere from 140-110 to 160-130. Feels much better than last night but still trying to get those numbers down.

Thank you!! Trying this out now!

 

[watercup]

Hello everyone. I wrote the ASTB exam today. (OAR- 54)(AQR-7 )(PFAR-8 )(FOFAR-7)(LPSS-60)

Thank you to everyone on this forum for contributing.
I have nothing really to add to what everyone has said. {follow the drives, and make the astb prep app as your second bible}
If you have any questions, feel free to inbox me.

With those scores, i believe i qualify for the immediate select portion. Is that correct?
If yes, how do I know when my next shipment date will be?
also any information on what i should be doing next as per preparation will be nice too.


Once again, thank you to everyone.

You do qualify for immediate selection with the scores. You also need a GPA 3.0 or greater on a 4.0 scale and no waivers. As long as those other two requirements are met you are all good.

 

[rybs]

Hello everyone. I wrote the ASTB exam today. (OAR- 54)(AQR-7 )(PFAR-8 )(FOFAR-7)(LPSS-60)

Thank you to everyone on this forum for contributing.
I have nothing really to add to what everyone has said. {follow the drives, and make the astb prep app as your second bible}
If you have any questions, feel free to inbox me.

With those scores, i believe i qualify for the immediate select portion. Is that correct?
If yes, how do I know when my next shipment date will be?
also any information on what i should be doing next as per preparation will be nice too.


Once again, thank you to everyone.

Congratulations on your scores. Those scores are part of what qualifies you for immediate selection. As mentioned, you will need a 3.0 GPA and require no waivers or exceptions to policies. The biggest thing however, is that you must be ready to ship immediately to qualify. Please keep this in mind. In the end, your recruiter is the only person that can give you information on whether or not you will be submitting for it and shipment date information. If you do qualify, there is a whole section of this forum dedicated to providing information on everything OCS and how to prepare for it. Best of luck to you and I hope this helps!

For documentation on I-SEL requirements, see here:
https://www.mynavyhr.navy.mil/Portals/55/Career/OCM/PA-106_OCS_Pilot_and_NFO_Nov-2023.pdf?ver=wPGLcbfwtNUYoWPi9Me5Uw==

 

[georgethegreat]

Thinking back to my first attempt, I got a math problem that was something like "Susy goes to the gym on Sunday and takes three rest days, Brian goes on Sunday and goes to the gym every two days. When will they see eachother again?" Does anyone elsse remember this or know where I can find some more sample problems like this? I haven't seen this problem mentioned on here or in the Kyle/Gomez drives or ASTVB App. Thanks!

 

[Frostasy]

I mainly lurked on this forum, but I wanted to thank everyone here for the resources and knowledge.

49 4/5/6 on my second try and then 59 8/7/8 on my third, final try. I'm excited to finally start the Navy OCS journey, I've been working on this since 2023 and dreaming of it since high school.

This thread has been a lot of help.

Also, I found that the Reading Comprehension part of the test was nothing like the practice tests that I saw except for the tests from the Test Prep Books ASTB. I've used Mometrix, Barrons, Trivium, and the ASTB Prep app and all of their reading comprehension tests didn't have a similar format to what was on the test. The Reading Comprehension test will usually just give you answer choices and tell you to infer the correct choice based on the passage, rather than giving you a direct question like in the other practice books. The passages on the test were really dry and sometimes it was pretty hard to tell which one was the right answer when multiple answer choices "sounded" right.

Good luck to all test-takers!

 

[Lighting_II]

Hello guys,

So I have my ASTB exam coming up this week and I am currently cramming for the exam. My question is do you think the equation sheet had everything you needed for the exam? I was wondering because when I take practice tests I try to not look up the equations. But now that my exam day is close I want to focus more on the concepts rather than spending time memorizing specific equations. What would you recommend in this situation?

Also, I am asking in the context of the math and physics portion of the exam.

 

[Lighting_II]

Seriously go through all the practice stuff on the drives here. Anything you aren’t familiar with look up, and the ASTB app if you’re getting almost everything right with all very hard mostly you should be ok. I felt pretty shaky on MCT but definitely be comfortable with conceptual stuff, and the bullet question I got twice. take the advice of everyone on this thread, it is invaluable, I owe it to everyone sharing their experiences and advice here. Cram cards for ANIT everyone says is sufficient, i took every question from this, the app, and the practice tests that I didn’t know and put them all in a Quizlet to study. I felt like I was under prepared but ended up scoring 60 8/9/8. Invest the $100 or so for the X52 I found one on marketplace, it is a life changing test so I think it’s well worth the investment, I used it with ASTB app everyday for a few weeks until it felt decently easy.

I have been using the ASTB app and I is so wacky doing better on the hard and very hard questions compared to easy and medium haha. Thank you for the advice.