The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) testing will take place on March 27, at 3:45 p.m. in the Lecture Hall. Testing will take around three hours and students need to bring a pencil. No food or drinks are allowed in the testing center. Testing booklets and information on the test can be found in the counseling office. Registration can be done either online or in the counselors’ office.
The test, which was created by the military, is open to all students, not just ROTC.
“There’s many different types of occupations in the military, so they design the test to help their recruits where to be placed within the military,” Timber Creek counselor Randall Colvin said. “So they use it for that purpose, but there’s been a tradition of schools using it because it’s a really good test, probably millions of people have taken it over the decades and so it gives you kind of a snapshot of how you compare to all these other people who have taken this test over decades.”
The test has many different information areas, including general science, reading passages, math, electronics and auto knowledge, and even questions over how to assemble items. The test can be taken by any student wishing to know more about their aptitude for their future career path. If students score well on the test, they may want to investigate the careers in the military associated with that section.
Taking the test is not an acceptance into the military or a placement test, it is simply to show students what their strengths and weaknesses are in the armed services.
“The ASVAB is designed by the military, but you do not have to sign up for the military to take the test, and it shows students what you’re good at, and it helps to show what careers would correlate with that area.” said Colvin.