Rod Powers - ASVAB AFQT For Dummies: Book + 8 Practice Tests Online

ASVAB AFQT For Dummies, 3rd Edition with Online Practice

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Because youre reading this book, theres a very good chance that youre interested in joining the U.S. military. I say that because the military recruiting commands are the only people in the entire world who care about the Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT) score. The AFQT score is derived from four of the nine Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) subtests. Its used to determine your overall qualification to join the military branch of your choice.

Perhaps youve read the best-selling ASVAB For Dummies (Wiley), or some other ASVAB prep book, and you want more practice so you can achieve the highest possible AFQT score. Maybe youve already taken the ASVAB, you want to retest for a higher AFQT score, and youre looking for an advantage. In any case, youve chosen the right book!

The ASVAB has two purposes: First, its designed to tell the military whether you can cut it within its ranks. Its also designed to show the military where youll shine as a service member. Four subtests of the ASVAB (Word Knowledge, Paragraph Comprehension, Mathematics Knowledge, and Arithmetic Reasoning) make up the AFQT. The same four subtests, plus the remaining five subtests, are used to determine the fields in which youre eligible to work. (Theres no such thing as an Army astronaut. Ive checked.)

Long gone are the days when someone could just walk into a recruiters office and get into the military as long as he had a pulse. Todays all-volunteer military members are the cream of the crop. For example, did you know that under current regulations, you need a minimum of a high school education to join and that no more than 10 percent of all recruits can have a GED or other high-school equivalency certificate?

Something else you may not know: The military services cant just grow to whatever size they want. Like any other government agency, they have a budget, and they have to operate within that budget. Every year, when Congress passes the annual Defense Authorization Act, it tells each military branch how many members its allowed to have at any given time. By law, the services cant go over the size mandated by congressional leaders (who hold the military purse strings).

Did you also know that of every ten people who walk into a military recruiters office, only about three are allowed to enlist? Sure, some are disqualified because of medical history or criminal history, but many are turned away because their AFQT scores are too low or because other qualified applicants have higher AFQT scores.

Todays military is high-tech. Even the common infantry soldier has to learn how to use and maintain complicated electronic gadgets to survive on the battlefield. The services use the AFQT to determine whether someone is trainable in the high-tech military.

Full-disclosure doctrine requires me to inform you that much of the information in this book can be found in ASVAB For Dummies. The AFQT is, after all, part of the ASVAB, and I wouldnt cheat you by putting part of the information in one book and part of the information in another.

So why should you spend some of your hard-earned money on this book, particularly if youve already bought ASVAB For Dummies? Because here you find expanded, more-detailed information about the AFQT and the four subtests that make up the AFQT score. If youre worried about your AFQT score, this book will help you get the highest score you can.

Even if youre not worried about your AFQT score, this book contains four count em, four! additional practice tests for the four most important subtests of the ASVAB. Extra practice is never a bad thing, as my high-school volleyball coach would say.

As you read through this book, youll see a couple of special conventions:

• Whenever I use a new term, I italicize the term and define it nearby, often in parentheses.
• I put web addresses in monofont so you can easily distinguish them from the surrounding text.

When this book was printed, some web addresses may have needed to break across two lines of text. If that happened, rest assured that I havent put in any extra characters (such as hyphens) to indicate the break. So when using one of these web addresses, just type in exactly what you see in this book, pretending the line break doesnt exist (or simply click the link if youre reading an e-book).