| Face it - unless you were a 4.0 honor roll student in | | | | you've seen answers with the same format as |
| high school you're not going to know every answer | | | | wrong answers on the ASVAB pretests you've |
| on the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery | | | | taken - talk about a huge advantage! |
| (ASVAB) test. In fact, it may surprise you to learn | | | | Second, the most stressful part of any new |
| that the military doesn't expect you to know every | | | | experience is not knowing what to expect. Too |
| answer either. The reality is that the ASVAB is more | | | | many potential recruits go into the ASVAB test cold |
| about your ability to solve problems under pressure | | | | with only the knowledge of the ASVAB pretest they |
| (a very valuable skill to have in the military) than it is | | | | took in their recruiter's office a few months ago to |
| about measuring your knowledge. | | | | go on. |
| Of course having the knowledge can't hurt but by | | | | Do you think they're nervous? |
| simply understanding the format of the ASVAB | | | | Of course the are! |
| questions and recognizing what they're actually | | | | Not only are they worried about what material is |
| testing you on can help make up for any knowledge | | | | going to be on the test but they also have to |
| deficit you may have going in. That's where the | | | | contend with the new experience of actually going |
| ASVAB pretest comes in. | | | | through the questions themselves. Do you think they |
| Taking as many pretests as possible is the best way | | | | would be more comfortable if this wasn't the first or |
| to prepare yourself for the actual test because it | | | | second time they'd actually seen an ASVAB test? I |
| offers two very important benefits. First, you come | | | | think the question is obvious - that's why I |
| to understand how the questions are structured and | | | | recommend those studying for the ASVAB to take |
| the format of the answers that appear over and | | | | as many pretests as possible. |
| over as wrong choices (the military isn't very | | | | Download paper versions from websites, get them |
| imaginative when it comes to making up wrong | | | | from study guides, and take online versions of the |
| answers). | | | | various subtests. It will go a long way towards |
| Imagine going through the questions on the actual | | | | helping you score your highest on the actual test - |
| ASVAB test and knowing right off the bat that one | | | | much more so than spending study time with your |
| or even two of the answers are wrong because | | | | nose in some musty textbook or boring dictionary! |