What Is the Average ASVAB Test Score?
Have you ever wondered how the lean fighting men-in-uniform are chosen for the army? Well, before they engage and survive military training, army recruits must first pass the ASVAB. So, what is the Average ASVAB Score? The ASVAB, or Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, is series of tests designed by the military and government to assess the person’s skills and psychological well-being. A person’s ASVAB score aids the military in identifying a person’s Military Occupational Specialty (MOS)-that is, whether he should be in the navy, the air force, special ops, etc. The ASVAB has 200 multiple choice questions about General Science, Arithmetic Reasoning, Word Knowledge, Paragraph Comprehension, Numerical Operations, Auto and Shop Information, Mathematics Knowledge and Mechanical Comprehension. Within 134 minutes, the test taker must not only reach the average on each individual test section, but he/she must also reach certain “cumulative scores”-Verbal, Math and Academic–which desc
