ASVAB for Civvies? Edumacation Thread

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ASVAB for Civvies? Edumacation Thread Strelok 01/02/19 (Wed) 11:57:29 4ad24e No.636937

So I got about a kilo in dollary doos for christmas, but I didn't have anything to spend it on. So I start looking at stupid shit and I find myself a practice suture kit. This lead me down a rabbit hole. I googled, "What does a combat medic learn?" No real hits, just something about an ASVAB. Found out what that was and found a practice test online here:

asvabmilitarytest dot com

The ASVAB as far as I know is like the Fallout 3 GOAT but real and for soldiers, and I was wondering if this might be a good way to gauge self-taught skills? I'm the sort of guy that spends his spare time reading PDFs and using what I learn there for DIY electrical shit and fixing my car. I want to start a thread on testing our knowledge, and I encourage anyone with military experience to help find the best tests and maybe give some outlines on the skills they learned and where they learned them, how we can improve our skills and how we can rate ourselves on competency without overestimating ourselves and all without having to pay 5,000 dollars for a fucking welding certificate.

Strelok 01/02/19 (Wed) 12:33:21 e806cf No.636938

You post like a retarded CoD playing high schooler. ASVAB is just the SAT dumbed down even further; I got a perfect score on that shit without studying for a second.

Strelok 01/02/19 (Wed) 12:42:13 4ad24e No.636942

>>636938

>You post like a retarded CoD playing high schooler

Damn I'm sorry to hear that anon, I only made one video game yuck in the whole post. Anyway, if you can put that aside, what did you learn, where did you learn it, and what would you suggest is a good way to self-assess our own skills at home? Thanks.

Strelok 01/02/19 (Wed) 12:55:19 4ad24e No.636947

>>636937

>You post like a retarded CoD playing high schooler.

>ASVAB for Civvies?

<Civvies

>Edumacation Thread

<Edumacation

>like the Fallout 3 GOAT but real and for soldiers

<real and for soldiers

…I realize too late how pretending to be retarded wasn't as funny as I thought it was.

Strelok 01/02/19 (Wed) 19:33:30 e1f46b No.637022

The ASVAB is a dumbed down test for high schoolers to make sure they don't eat crayons on the government dime. Everyone I knew back then got over 70. One person got in the high 90s but got popped for drugs before he could enlist. And furthermore, the asvab doesn't test for self taught skills outside of breathing and putting pencil to paper. If you can add fractions you'll pass the math part. If you can visualize a lever and fulcrum the mechanical part is easy.

>5000 for a fucking welding certificate

Tungsten inert gas yourself. If you can't see why a trade like welding requires training and a piece of paper that says "I know what I'm doing and won't be a liability on your site" then you're fucking retarded. And if you're lucky enough to be self taught or learned it from family then the certs should be a breeze.

Strelok 01/03/19 (Thu) 02:01:48 206ace No.637073

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Strelok 01/03/19 (Thu) 02:11:00 064f5c No.637074

>>637022

>If you can't see why a trade like welding requires training

I'm not complaining about the training I'm complaining about the cost. I don't want to weld professionally I want to weld adequately, but I'd also like to see where I stand relative to professionals. I know I made some dumb late night posting decisions but it would be nice to have some sort of self-assessment options so that we aren't blindly saying we know shit we don't know. I'm apparently so dumb I didn't even know what an ASVAB was. I'm genuinely looking for self-testing options and I get that the ASVAB ain't it, so what do I do? How can I assess myself for competency?

Strelok 01/03/19 (Thu) 02:26:02 9aacd3 No.637079

>>637074

Join the army get some paid training.

Strelok 01/03/19 (Thu) 12:33:51 027252 No.637212

>>637079

Quite literally. You want to learn for free? Pay up and sign for your four years, Israel needs soldiers. Just not their own.