Oh. My. God. I just found out that there is a study guide for ASVAB.

[Rabrrrrrr]

Probably many, I imagine.

I never woulda thunk.

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. Really?

Isn't that a vocational aptitude test? What would one be studying for?

[ET Awful]

3. Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery

One of the easiest tests of it's type I ever took. Hell, it was easier than the GED, and that's saying something (I missed 2 questions on the GED and 1 on the ASVAB).

[Pierre.Suave]

2. HAHA

now thats funny...

[Heidi]

4. Here's one of them.

I'll say no more.

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. Oh my - is that real? Or did you photoshop it?

[Heidi]

6. It's real.

You can buy it at Wal-Mart. (And amazon.com and about a jillion other places, but I found the Wal-Mart thing especially amusing.)

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. Jesus. I guess our educational system really is in the shitter.

I mean, seriously, the study guide for ASVAB should be.......... drum roll please...... SCHOOL.

At least, I would think so.

For fuck's sake. The ASVAB is written at about a tenth grade level.

Have the Republicans fucked the educational system that much?

[Heidi]

8. I agree. If not for the Department of Labor link to ASVAB,

I would say that a test essentially sponsored by the US military and proctored by contractors hired by the US military shouldn't even be administered in public schools. Do we allow other prospective employers such easy access to our children? I dunno about these days, but the military was the only prospective employer that was allowed to test students on school property.

[Rabrrrrrr]

15. I'm not bothered by the military using schools as testing places.

My issue is the fact that the ASVAB is very much a high school level kind of test - and that there shouldn't be any study guides for it, because the study guide should be *school* itself. That is to say, if one cannot pass the ASVAB without a study guide, then that means the schools are shit.

The ASVAB is a perfectly good kind of test to see if someone learned the proper amount of stuff in high school.

Seriously - there should be a law that if one fails the ASVAB, one has to take another year of high school AND the government comes in to inspect that high school to see why they so utterly failed in teaching that particular student.

[DS1]

9. There were study guides when I signed up, in 1990

but we weren't told of their existence, and we didn't need them anyway. I still found myself being lead around by fucking rocks who scored under 100.

[VenusRising]

13. "Have the Republicans fucked the educational system that much?"

Yes.

[PVnRT]

10. Anyone who needs to study for that test has no place in the military

[Iggo]

11. Studying for an aptitude test?

Huh?

[MountainLaurel]

12. In my old library, they were frequently stolen

Someone would check one out and then never return it, or they'd disappear off the shelves.

[WCIL]

14. We sold lots of them when I worked at Waldenbooks

The customers would tell us as they bought them that this was their second or third try.

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. Second or third try?!

I knew people in this country were fucking dumb.

I knew it in my heart.

But I didn't think they were that fucking dumb.

[underpants]

17. Do your eyes work? Can you squeeze a trigger?

Why we have an outstanding opportunity for YOU young man

[SacredCow]

18. I remember taking that....

And after we were done, I clearly recall telling my girlfriend at the time that if I didn't get at LEAST in the 97th percentile that she was to have me shot, because I would be too stupid to live.

[Rabrrrrrr]

19. I got yelled for reading a book when I took it.

I brought a book (a Conan novel, if memory serves) with me because I figured I'd have a lot of spare time. And holy shit, but I did indeed have a lot of free time... but after about the fourth section, the test-giving guy noticed that I was reading and said "No books!!" to which I said "But I'm done!" to which he said "NO BOOKS!!!!"

Fuck!

I had to sit and twiddle my fucking thumbs after every section for the next few hours. BORING AS HELL.

At least I didn't have as much downtime when I took the ACT or SAT.

But, God, sitting in a room waiting for twenty more minutes to lapse so I could move on to the next section was almost unbearable.

What I should have said was "It's a CONAN book, about KILLING PEOPLE, you jarhead fuck!"

[DS1]

20. I fell asleep during my CLEP exams in the military

Gawd, skipping 6 required classes in college was awesome!


Anyway, they had stopped and started us through the practice exams we did at night, but during the live test it was burn through them all at your own pace. So I grabbed some ZZZs after the first book, got woken up when a friend kicked my desk about 45 minutes later.


Still passed them all :D

[Iggo]

21. It's goin on 30 years ago...

...so I don't remember the exact score, but I seem to recall it was the upper end of the 90s. It was the first time I'd run into "percentile" and someone had to tell me the difference between that and "percent."

Don't remember anything on the test, but I do remember thinking it was easy. The only hard part was the stupid fuck who was administering the test. He seemed to think we were filming an episode of Scared Straight or something. He also seemed to have a particular dislike for long-haired red-eyed teenagers...especially the kind who weren't afraid of him. I bet he's a wonderful police officer or prison guard today...lol.

[SacredCow]

22. What I remember more than anything about the test....

was when we got our results back, and the interpretation guide was some kind of bizarre comic book.

[KatyaR]

23. And yet there's not one for the Vice Presidency.

Go figure . . . .