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What this site does

ASVABScores records published ASVAB line score requirements for Army MOS entries and presents them with transparent verification status. When you enter scores from your report, the tool compares your values against these recorded thresholds and returns one of three results: meets threshold, below threshold, or undetermined.

Data sources

Score requirements are recorded from official Army MOS specification documents published on army.mil. Each entry includes:

  • The source document URL
  • The date the source was checked
  • The specific paragraph or section reference (applicability)
  • An internal verification status; only verified entries are published

We do not use unofficial aggregator sites, forum posts, or recruiter conversations as primary sources. If a requirement cannot be traced to an official document, it is held back and not published until it can be verified.

Three-state verification

Internally, every record in our ledger carries one of three states. Only the first is ever published:

  • Verified — The score requirement was confirmed from a current official source with a direct URL. It appears on its MOS page, in the catalog and in the score checker.
  • Conflict — Multiple official sources disagree on the requirement (for example, an Active Army PDF listing a different threshold than a National Guard document for the same MOS). The entry is held back and does not appear anywhere on the site until the conflict is resolved.
  • Pending — The requirement has been identified but not yet independently checked against an official source. The entry is held back and does not appear anywhere on the site.

If the Army later rescinds a verified MOS, its page stays online as a clearly labeled historical record, but it is removed from every list and from matching.

How the calculator computes scores

The score calculator can compute an AFQT percentile and all ten Army line scores from the subtest standard scores printed on an official report. Every formula comes from one document: Development and Evaluation of the 1997 ASVAB Score Scale (Segall, July 2004), published by the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) and hosted on officialasvab.com. A copy is stored in this site's evidence folder with its SHA-256 checksum (df7526c0022b…), checked 2026-09-17.

  • AFQT — AFQTS = AR + MK + 2 × VE; the sum is looked up in Table 2.5 (159 explicit rows, with 109 and below mapping to 1 and 269 and above mapping to 99).
  • GT — Rnd(1.074292 × (AR + VE) − 7.443781), from Section 2.5.3 and Table 5.1.
  • CL, CO, EL, FA, GM, MM, OF, SC, ST — rounded weighted sums of the seven standard scores GS, AR, MK, MC, EI, AS and VE plus a constant, using the weights in Table 2.7. The weights are shown in full on the calculator page.

All values are on the 1997 ASVAB score scale (PAY97 norms; subtest standard scores mean 50, SD 10). VE and AS are taken from the report as printed; VE is derived by the Department of Defense from Word Knowledge and Paragraph Comprehension together and cannot be reconstructed from the two subtest scores, so the calculator does not ask for WK or PC. A missing input leaves every dependent score unknown rather than estimated. The test suite checks that an input of 50 on every subtest yields exactly 100 on every composite, which is how the transcription of the weight table is verified.

Your official score report is authoritative. The Army can revise composite weights; if a computed value differs from the printed one, use the printed one and tell us.

What this site does not do

  • Does not estimate or calculate AFQT or line scores from practice test results
  • Does not derive VE or AS from other numbers, and does not reverse-engineer line scores from an AFQT percentile
  • Does not compute Navy, Air Force, Space Force, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard composites
  • Does not determine enlistment eligibility — only whether listed score thresholds are met
  • Does not account for additional requirements such as OPAT, security clearance, medical screening, moral waivers, or training seat availability
  • Does not guarantee that recorded requirements are current — Army specifications can be updated at any time

Score matching rules

The matching engine uses a condition tree that supports three rule types:

  • Minimum — A single line score must meet or exceed a threshold (e.g., ST ≥ 101)
  • All — Every child condition must be met (logical AND)
  • Any — At least one child condition must be met (logical OR)

If any required score is missing from your input, the result is "undetermined" rather than a false pass or fail. The engine validates that inputs are non-negative integers before comparison.

Practice questions

Practice questions on this site are original drafts covering Arithmetic Reasoning (AR), Math Knowledge (MK), Word Knowledge (WK), and Paragraph Comprehension (PC). They are designed to illustrate question formats and common reasoning patterns. They are not official ASVAB questions and should not be used to estimate an official score. Each question includes an explanation for the correct answer.

Updates and corrections

Requirements are checked against source documents periodically. If you notice an error or an outdated requirement, the source URL on each job page allows you to verify the information independently. We welcome corrections that include a link to the current official source.