Sgt. Eddie Quezada, a Marine Corps recruiter from Marine Corps Recruiting Station San Diego, gathers answer sheets during Mission Bay High School’s first Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery in ...

Garrett Andrews is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Political Science at Portland Community College where he teaches State and Local Government. Veronica Beagle is the managing editor ...

Since 1968, the military has used the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, or ASVAB, to assess all incoming recruits. This single test predicts academic skills and determines what military ...

Math is hard, but in the era of the smartphone, most of us can mitigate our lack of arithmetic skills with the digital abacuses burning holes in our pockets. As such, the Defense Department is ...

As of 2026, the ASVAB has fully evolved into a computerized adaptive test, meaning the difficulty adjusts in real-time to your performance, and minimum score thresholds have been recalibrated for each ...

The Army is introducing a pilot program designed to find recruits who will be a better fit for the service and even allow them to enter jobs that require higher standardized test scores than what they ...

SEMBACH, Germany – Military, Department of Defense (DoD), and Post-Secondary institution personnel stationed in Europe traveled to U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz to participate in the first ever ...

Defense Department restrictions on civilian travel mean that some potential recruits will have to travel farther to take the military’s entrance exam, as remote testing centers cut back hours or close ...

A sailor who once doubted his ability to succeed in the service graduated with a prestigious military award, according to the Navy. Seaman Apprentice Jason Lorentz, 25, graduated as the top sailor ...

What is the ASVAB? The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery is a multiple-choice test, used to predict academic and occupational success in the military. You’ve heard taking the Armed Services ...