Armed Services Qualifications Test (AFQT) – Everything you need!

Exam Details

• This a multiple choice test.
• Anyone eligible and interested in enlisting can also take it.
• The test does not emphasize on speed of answering the question.

Exam Scores

• The scores of all the tests are combined together into a single score and percentile
• Army recruits should score at least 31 to qualify for the armed forces.
• The score is derived from the tests on Verbal and Math’s sub tests of the ASVAB which includes Paragraph Comprehension, Word Knowledge, Arithmetic Reasoning and Mathematics knowledge.
• The verbal sections are counted twice while the math section is counted just once.

Exam Content

This is a Score and not a test, that is taken from your ASVAB score

• Paragraph Comprehension  11 questions to be answered in 22 minutes so you have 2 minutes per question.  Here are some of the skills the Paragraph Comprehension section will test:

  • Drawing logical conclusions
  • Identify the author’s intent, e.g. to persuade, inform, entertain, etc.
  • Make predictions
  • Analyze and evaluate the use of text structure to solve problems or identify sequences
  •  Find information from a graphic (chart or similar, graphic representation)
  • Identify and use scale, legends on a sample map

  Arithmetic Reasoning Also knows as word problems, there are applied math questions.  Arithmetic Reasoning questions will involve the following basic math skills:

  • Basic operations – addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
  • Operations with fractions, decimals and percent
  • Ratio
  • Scale
  • Solving simple equations
  • Basic geometry

  Mathematics  Basic High School Math including:

  • Adding/Subtracting/Multiplying/Dividing with Whole Numbers, Fractions, Decimals, Integers, and Algebraic Terms
  • Finding percentages

  Word Knowledge  Basic vocabulary knowledge including:

  • Vocabulary
  • Meaning in Context (Give the definition of a word from context)
  • Synonyms