22% of young people not smart enough to enlist

soonerdawg1 · Feb 7, 2011

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Arkansas National Guard officials said 30 percent of state high school graduates who took the entrance exam for the Guard during the past three months failed because of poor reading, writing and math skills.

Lt. Col. Greg Pelts, the Guard's commander for recruiting and retention, said the recent failure rate on the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, or ASVAB, is consistent with the rate in 2010.

The ASVAB test is used by all military branches to determine if applicants have basic skills to qualify for enlistment. It's also used to help applicants find a military specialty.Nationally, about 22.6 of applicants fail the test. In Arkansas, the failure rate is 27.7 percent. Arkansas has the nation's eighth-worst ASVAB scores.

Doug · Feb 7, 2011

then you can be refused a similar cop job for being too smart to be a cop.....

http://forums.officer.com/forums/showthread.php?14607-Too-SMART-to-be-a-cop

Doug · Feb 7, 2011

soonerdawg1 said:
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Arkansas National Guard officials said 30 percent of state high school graduates who took the entrance exam for the Guard during the past three months failed because of poor reading, writing and math skills.

Lt. Col. Greg Pelts, the Guard's commander for recruiting and retention, said the recent failure rate on the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, or ASVAB, is consistent with the rate in 2010.

The ASVAB test is used by all military branches to determine if applicants have basic skills to qualify for enlistment. It's also used to help applicants find a military specialty.Nationally, about 22.6 of applicants fail the test. In Arkansas, the failure rate is 27.7 percent. Arkansas has the nation's eighth-worst ASVAB scores.

I'd love to take. or see this test.

punter · Feb 7, 2011

The saying in the Ark school system used to be "thank God for Mississippi or we would be last"

Doug · Feb 7, 2011

I call Arkansas....

Are-Cans- US

soonerdawg1 · Feb 7, 2011

i don't remember it being that bad.....it's been over a decade though.....do remember a portion where you had to recognize a pattern among shapes or some shit, that part kicked my ass.....seems like it was set up like a prolonged iq test....i did pretty well on it but i come from good stock

Enfuego · Feb 7, 2011

Only 22 percent that actually take the test. I wonder if that's a fair representation of America as a whole.

Doug · Feb 7, 2011

I'd like to compare it to the USPS test, love to do that ! I passed that one and got hired, think that has to be harder ? I'd really love to see the questions on a written cop test !.....just don't get them all right, I guess ?

USPS test is at least graded fairly ( ?), then x-tra points for veterans.