What is the AFQT?
Your score on the AFQT, or the Armed Forces Qualifying Test,
determines your eligibility in all brances of the Armed Services.
The ASVAB does not have an "overall" score; when someone talks
about getting a score of, say 75 or 80 on the ASVAB, he or she is
really talking about the AFQT score, not the overall ASVAB
score.
The AFQT score is derived from your performance on just the
verbal and math subtests of the ASVAB, or to be more specific:
Word Knowledge, Paragraph Comprehension, Arithmetic Reasoning,
and Mathematics Knowledge. You should also realize that the
verbal sections are doubly counted, while the math sections are
only counted once.
Your percentile score on the AFQT determines your eligibility
in the Armed Forces. As a general rule, anyone who scores lower
than the 30th percentile will not be allowed into any branch of
the Armed Forces. Army recruits must score at least 31 on the
AFQT, with no more than ten percent per year being high school
dropouts. GED holders must score a 50 percent or better to be
eligible.
Learn
more about the test sections on the ASVAB.
