What is a good Asvab score to become an officer in the Marine Corps?
An ASVAB AFQT score of 74 is the minimum that qualifies for the PLC(Platoon Leader's Class.) or OCC. PLC is the Marines prime commissioning source(35%.) 24% of Marine officers commission through OCC. 15% through NROTC MO and 14% through the Naval Academy. Alternatively, a 1000 combined SAT Comprehensive Reading and Math score or a ACT Composite of 22 will meet the requirements of PLC, OCC or NROTC MO. Minimum GPA for PLC and OCC is 2.0. http://dcmarineofficer.com/platoonleadersclass.html http://dcmarineofficer.com/officercandidatescourse.html With regard to OCC, NYC OSO states: "This program is now much more difficult to get into vice PLC. You will be competing against more people for fewer slots. The scores needed for acceptance are higher and the percentage of those selected compared to the PLC Program is much lower. The numbers for an aviation contract are much lower than PLC as well." http://www.nycmarineofficer.com/OCC.html Read this answer I just wrote for much more detail on becoming a Marine Officer: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AhxhQGxZ5wHGh8mYJplptbjty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20090317150942AAaUE6Y&show=7#profile-info-VYGeZpsCaa Good Luck!
What's considered a good ASVAB score?
It sounds like you've already found your answer, but I'll chip in, anyway. The overall ASVAB score is on a 1-99 scale, but the ASVAB also scores specific areas of skill or knowledge, to test your aptitude and in doing so assist them in finding what jobs you might be good at. For example, having a high GT score is a must if you wish to be an officer, warrant officer, or otherwise qualify for a job or position that would entail meticulous work with expensive equipment, sensitive information, or even involve a lot of writing. The other sections test your strengths in other areas. I got a 99 on my overall ASVAB score, and was given everything I asked for--Europe, MI, etc. I should think that you'd have quite a lot less choice over which specific job/branch, or station, you'd be selected for, being an officer and especially being a Marine officer... but it seems your SAT scores have saved you from having to bother with the ASVAB anyway. Still, at times it's useful to have taken it, since the ASVAB is the measure by which the military judges you in terms of additional schooling and training, some of the time. Hope this has helped, in addition to all the other information everyone else has provided :)
Army officer requirements, and qualifications?
I just recently passed the OCS board and here's what you need. You need a regionally accredited bachelors degree, in any discipline. So if you're thinking about going to college any major will do. You must schedule a MEPS physical with a recruiter, which is a day long thing where they check you out and make you do different type of activities. This physical is good for 2 years. You need to take the ASVAB and get a GT score of 110. You must pass the APFT (Army Physical Fitness Test) prior to the board. You must get a 60 in each area of your test. http://usmilitary.about.com/od/army/a/afpt.htm There is also a packet you need to fill out, to include references for areas you've lived and jobs you've worked. You also need 3 letters of recommendation. After all that you sit in front of a board of officers and they questino you for 10-15 minutes (more of a formality they rarely reject someone). From there you will be required to attend basic training, the you go on to OCS (Officer Candidate School). If you are prior service in any branch you do not need to attend basic training. You are required to serve 3 years after the date you're commissioned. You're subject to recall or stop loss for 8 years total though. E-mail me if you have any questions, I can also help you find a good recruiter. [[[i'm wondering what it takes to be an officer in the Army. (college, degree, physical, test scores, etc)]]]
What are the benefits of a 99 percentile score on ASVAB?
I took the ASVAB for the Army and on the way back, the recruiter driving the van called back “who’s Berry?” I raised my hand and he said he’d never seen a score as high as mine. Before the test, I was chatting with a 6′6 220 pound country boy that was taking the test for the 3rd time so he could be an infantryman. I started to reconsider the army.Unfortunately for my recruiter, all four branches had a recruiting office right next to each other in a strip mall. The army recruiter was all business and seemed really interested in me. I thought “what the hell,” and decided to visit the navy and air-force offices. Navy guy was a pretty serious dude so I popped into the air-force office and found a Staff Sergeant with his feet up on his desk watching a movie on tv. He was more like a civilian in a uniform and didn’t strike me as a jerk.When he looked up my ASVAB score, he didn’t seem all that impressed, but did say I could enlist in any field I would like. I chose computers since in the 80’s that was the coolest thing, but at the MEPS station, I talked to someone that was re-joining and they recommended ground-radio as the best career field and I chose to listen. I ended up in the Air Intelligence Agency with a top secret clearance and never looked back.EDIT: I want to clarify that the ASVAB is very much like an IQ test. If you score well on either, it means only one thing. You are good at taking such tests. What you score on any test will have little to do with how successful you are later on. I have met many “slow” people that were damned good at the job, and many “bright” people that were so interested in gaming the system that they sucked. The tests are just an indicator, a very crude method of determining one’s suitability for a particular task.
Does the military care about a high ASVAB score?
The military does care about ASVAB scores. If they did not, then they would not bother to administer the tests. The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery is used to determine several things, including education level, Intelligence, and the ability to problem solve.Certain military jobs require minimal scores in the specific areas of the test. Those recruits with higher scores are offered more choice assignemts like the nuclear program in the Navy and Linguistics program in the Air Force.
What's a good ASVAB score for the Air Force?
Basically, any score that will get you in. I have said on many occasions that I would rather be an enlisted man in the Air Force than a commissioned officer in any other service, and that if I had to serve in any other service, I would insist on being a commissioned officer.Seriously, I think a minimum score of 70 on the ASVAB test would be acceptable. Higher than that, your opportunities improve. I personally scored in the 95th percentile overall and the 99th percentile in my particular career field; my recruiter told me that I could take my pick of any of the career fields the Air Force offered.If you can get your hands on one of the commercially prepared study guides for the ASVAB test, I would invest the money without a moment's hesitation. If you intend to make the Air Force a career, it pays to bone up on the test that they use to choose who goes in - that way, you have the best chance of getting a career field that you find fulfilling, and if you don't like it, after your first enlistment, you can ask to be cross trained.
My 10th grade ASVAB score.?
Hello Mike, These scores mean nothing and are worthless to you. First off they are NOT ASVAB scores. The 80% is the AFQT (Armed Forces Qualification Test) score. You only need a 36% to enlist into the Air Force. Everything over that is "gravy on your biscuit." Second, officers to not take the ASVAB. Those are aptitude tests for enlisted people. If you are wanting to enlist I need to know your 4 sub-scores for "Mechanical, Electronics, Administrative, and General." AF jobs (AFSCs) set minimum scores in one of these areas. Third: Do you want to be an officer? Then, you need to #1. Get both the practice ACT and SAT workbooks at the mall book store and work them on weekends and summer vacations. #2. Apply to a college that offers Air Force ROTC. #3. You are smart enough to get an AFROTC scholarship and it will pay for your college tuition. #4. You will be in AF ROTC for 4 years going to AF ROTC classes everyday. #5. When you graduate you will be commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the AF. #6. You will go to Officer Training School and for 8 - 12 weeks you will learn more about being an AF Officer. #7. You will attend a Officer Technical School to learn the field that you will be working in as an Officer. MOST people do NOT qualify to become pilots. Maybe less than 5% of the Air Force's 330,000 people are actual pilots and navigators. E-mail me back and tell me what state you live in and I will tell you the colleges in your state that offer Air Force ROTC. You do not want to go to community college if you want to be in ROTC. And, you want to go to the college in your home state that offers ROTC. Forget Harvard and Yale and such. They don't offer military programs. Best wishes, Larry Smith Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Ret.) First Sergeant
Air Force Nursing Officer Questions?
I agree with HOOAH, and would like to add that promotions after Captain are getting harder to come by. If you don't have your Master's degree and at least one deployment by that time, then your chances of promotion decrease significantly. Not sure why you wouldn't trust the recruiter. He/she has no reason to lie or mislead you with information to get you to join. Recruiting and retention in the Air Force is at an all time high, even with Nursing. EDIT: The chick below me obviously doesn't understand that Nurses with BSNs are considered for commission and NOT for enlistment. You also do NOT have to take the ASVAB (is what folks wanting to enlist have to take in order to be considered for certain positions). But I think you already know all that. Also, when you are ready to speak with a recruiter, be sure to seek out a Health Professions recruiter...these are the recruiters who know what specific requirements that Nurses, Physicians, etc need to get you through the recruitment process.
What is the difference between an officer navy seal and a enlisted navy seal?
The obvious difference is rank. When it comes to specialties, officers tend to get things like Jump Master whereas an enlisted guy may get something like Breacher. When it comes to action, officers tend to be weaned out of it about the time they make LCDR (O-4). Enlisted guys get to keep going out as long as they can qualify. But they cross train so when anybody goes down, just about anybody can pick up his duties. When it comes to leadership in a crisis situation, everybody up and down the line defer to the guy with the particular specialty necessary to handle that situation... regardless of pay grade.
What asvab score do i need to become a naval reactors engineer?
I cannot find it anymore on the internet. I understand that it is an officer's job (I'm becoming an officer) I go to meps april 18th and i want to score high enough to become one