Verbal
27%of exam
Verbal AnalogiesWord KnowledgeReading CompAcademicVerbal Score
Quantitative
18%of exam
Arithmetic ReasoningMath KnowledgeRatiosAlgebraQuant Score
Rated Aptitude
42%of exam
Judgment Science
13%of exam
Quick Facts
- Exam
- AFOQT
- Owner
- U.S. Air Force
- Provider
- Pearson VUE
- Purpose
- Officer commissioning selection
- Subtests
- 12 timed sections
- Questions
- 516 multiple-choice
- Length
- About 5 hours
- Cost
- Free official test
- Voucher
- Recruiter or TCO
- Scores
- Composites, not raw percent
- Retest wait
- At least 90 days
- Validity
- No expiration
Verbal Picker
- Two word pair→Relationship type
- Single word→Synonym check
- Passage asks why→Author purpose
- Passage asks suggests→Inference
- Unknown word→Root context
- Answer too extreme→Eliminate
Test Map
- VA
- 25 q / 8 min
- AR
- 25 q / 29 min
- WK
- 25 q / 5 min
- MK
- 25 q / 22 min
- RC
- 25 q / 24 min
- SJ
- 16 q / 35 min
- SDI
- 240 q / 45 min
- PS
- 20 q / 10 min
- TR
- 40 q / 7 min
- IC
- 25 q / 5 min
- BC
- 30 q / 5 min
- AI
- 20 q / 8 min
Verbal Tools
- Analogy
- Relationship match
- Synonym
- Similar meaning
- Antonym
- Opposite meaning
- Root
- Core meaning
- Prefix
- Before root
- Suffix
- After root
- Context
- Nearby clue
- Tone
- Author attitude
Baseline Minimums
Commissioning gate: verbal fifteen, quant ten.
V15Q10All line officers
Verbal vs Quant
Verbal
- VA WK RC
- Words and passages
- Minimum 15
Quant
- AR MK
- Numbers and formulas
- Minimum 10
Language vs math
Math Picker
- Of means→Multiply
- Per means→Divide
- Whole missing→Divide by percent
- Equal ratios→Proportion
- Distance question→Rate times time
- Line equation→y=mx+b
Quant Core
- Ratio
- Compare quantities
- Proportion
- Equal ratios
- Percent
- Per hundred
- Average
- Sum divided count
- Rate
- Per one unit
- Distance
- Rate times time
- Work
- Output over time
- Probability
- Favorable over total
AR vs MK
AR
- Word problems
- Applied setup
- Units matter
MK
- Math concepts
- Algebra geometry
- Formula recall
Translate vs know
Math Formulas
- Line
- y=mx+b
- Slope
- Rise over run
- Rectangle area
- l x w
- Triangle area
- bh / 2
- Circle area
- pi r^2
- Circumference
- 2 pi r
- Right triangle
- a^2+b^2=c^2
- Percent change
- Change over original
Six Composites
P C A A V Q
PilotCSOABMAcademicVerbalQuant
Raw vs Composite
Raw
- Correct item count
- Not reported
- Not percentage
Composite
- Reported score
- Percentile style
- Selection input
Count vs report
Score Priority
- Need commission→Verbal Quant(V15 Q10)
- Need pilot→Pilot composite(MK TR IC AI)
- Need CSO→CSO composite(WK MK TR BC)
- Need ABM→ABM composite(Six inputs)
- Need RPA→Pilot plus PCSM(DAFMAN minimums)
- Weak baseline→V and Q first(Gating scores)
Composite Inputs
- Pilot
- MK TR IC AI
- CSO
- WK MK TR BC
- ABM
- VA MK TR IC BC AI
- Academic
- VA AR WK MK RC
- Verbal
- VA WK RC
- Quantitative
- AR MK
- SDI
- Not graded
- Raw score
- Not reported
Pilot Inputs
Pilot wants Math, Table, Instruments, Aviation.
MKTRICAI
Pilot vs CSO
Pilot
- MK TR IC AI
- Flight-heavy
- Pilot 25
CSO
- WK MK TR BC
- Verbal plus spatial
- CSO 25
Flight vs navigator
Rated Picker
- Coordinate lookup→Table Reading
- Pitch and bank→Instrument Comp
- Stack contact→Block Counting
- Flight principles→Aviation Info
- Compass shown→Heading
- Spatial rush→Slow count
Minimums
- Commissioning
- V15 Q10
- Pilot
- Pilot 25
- RPA
- Pilot 25
- CSO
- CSO 25
- ABM
- ABM 25
- PCSM
- Pilot/RPA input
- Waivers
- Source authority
- Score type
- Composite percentile
Flight Forces
Lift up, weight down, thrust forward, drag back.
LiftWeightThrustDrag
Table vs Instrument
Table
- Coordinate lookup
- Speed accuracy
- x-y grid
Instrument
- Attitude reading
- Pitch bank
- Heading cue
Grid vs cockpit
Aviation Basics
- Lift
- Upward force
- Weight
- Gravity force
- Thrust
- Forward force
- Drag
- Resists motion
- Aileron
- Controls roll
- Elevator
- Controls pitch
- Rudder
- Controls yaw
- Flaps
- Increase lift
Roll vs Yaw
Roll
- Longitudinal axis
- Ailerons
- Wing low
Yaw
- Vertical axis
- Rudder
- Nose left/right
Bank vs turn nose
Instrument Table
- Heading
- Compass direction
- Attitude
- Pitch and bank
- Nose up
- Climb attitude
- Nose down
- Descent attitude
- Bank left
- Left wing low
- Bank right
- Right wing low
- Table row
- Find y value
- Table column
- Find x value
Block Counting
- Touching faces
- Count contact sides
- Diagonal touch
- Do not count
- Hidden block
- Infer support
- Exposed face
- No neighbor there
- Top face
- May be visible
- Stack base
- Supports above
- Target block
- Count neighbors only
- Speed rule
- Scan systematically
Officer Response
Calm, lawful, accountable, mission-focused.
CalmLawfulAccountableMission
SJ vs SDI
SJ
- Scenario judgment
- Best/worst response
- Officer behavior
SDI
- Personality inventory
- Not graded
- Answer consistently
Judgment vs inventory
Policy Picker
- Need appointment→Recruiter/TCO
- Need schedule→Voucher first
- Failed attempt→Wait 90 days
- Third attempt→Waiver authority
- Best prior score→Superscore rule
- Missing scores→Recruiter/TCO
Policy Rules
- Voucher
- Required to schedule
- Eligibility
- Recruiter or TCO
- Attempts
- Three authorized
- Third attempt
- Waiver required
- Retest
- Wait 90 days
- Early retest
- Exception required
- Superscore
- Best composite counts
- Scores site
- AFPC Testing Office
- Score timing
- 2-3 business days
- Name match
- ID must match
Reading Judgment
- Main idea
- Central claim
- Detail
- Text evidence
- Inference
- Evidence plus logic
- Implied meaning
- Unstated conclusion
- Best response
- Most officerlike
- Worst response
- Most harmful
- Escalation
- Use chain
- Integrity
- Truth before comfort
Physical Science
- Force
- Mass times acceleration
- Inertia
- Resists motion change
- Energy
- Ability to work
- Power
- Work per time
- Pressure
- Force over area
- Lever
- Force around fulcrum
- Pulley
- Changes force direction
- Machine
- Trades force distance
Common Traps
Weights
Published counts are items ≠ Scoring weights are hidden
Raw score
Correct count ≠ Not score report
SDI
Personality inventory ≠ Not aptitude grade
Retake
Ninety-day wait ≠ Third needs waiver
Superscore
Best composite counts ≠ Not newest only
Table Reading
Find exact coordinate ≠ Do not estimate
Instrument Comp
Pitch plus bank ≠ Heading is separate
Block Counting
Face contact counts ≠ Diagonal touch does not
Percent Change
Use original base ≠ Sequential percent differs
Officer Judgment
Private correction preferred ≠ Public conflict hurts
Last Minute
- 1.Pearson says 516 questions
- 2.Every subtest is timed
- 3.Answer every question
- 4.Voucher required to schedule
- 5.ID name must match
- 6.Raw percent is not score
- 7.V15 Q10 gates commissioning
- 8.Pilot/RPA need Pilot 25
- 9.CSO needs CSO 25
- 10.ABM needs ABM 25
- 11.Retest after 90 days
- 12.Third attempt needs waiver
- 13.Scores do not expire
- 14.Superscore uses best composite
- 15.SDI is not graded
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