Army Aptitude tests revisited

[DaveHH]

A while back, I asked if anyone knew the meaning of the tests on my Army records dating from when I was drafted in 1965. Karl gave me some information which was thankfully received. By chance I stumbled across the list taken from 1958 and explain what those numbers and letters actually mean. You can look at those old Army test scores and at least tell what they were testing for during basic training. I've listed them and what my scores were at that time. From these test scores, I should have been drafted into Armor Artillery or Combat engineers, of course none of that happened. Hope you find these interesting:

From 1958, my test is from 1965

IN = Infantry Combat 123
AE=Armor Artillery Engineer Combat 149
EL= Electronics 117
GM= general maintenance 135
MM= motor maintenance 144
CL= clerical 122
GT= general technical 125
RC=radio code 123

RV=reading and vocabulary (not on my test)
AR=arithmetic reasoning 127
SM= shop mechanics 139
PA= pattern analysis 126
AI= automotive information 150
AC=clerical speed test 126
MA= mechanical aptitude 132
EL= electronics information 110
GIT=general information test 147
CI= classification inventory 121
ARC= radio code 123

If anyone has additional information on the subject, I'd appreciate hearing it.

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[0311Shooter]

I do remember a full week of tests back at Parris Island. Also recall a few weeks later the SDI called about 5 of us to his desk.

He said that the five of us scored highest on testing and qualified for Marine Aviation. Said that we could sign up for Pilot Training and if we passed we would become Marine Pilots.

One guy asked what would happen if we flunked out. He said, "probably become helicopter pilots in Vietnam".

I turned it down.

[John Sukey (Deceased)]

Way baaaack when, they told us the test to get in the military was as easy as falling off a log. If you couldn't fall off the log, you were special and they sent you to OCS

[Dave]

I enlisted in the AF, 1953, promised the "career field of my choice". Took the tests, still have results on file but without digging them out I remember I scored hi in my choice, automotive mech.'s. However I also scored hi in electronics, why I don,t know. All I knew of electricity was you put the thingey with the 2 prongs into the thingey on the wall with 2 slots and it SHOULD work! Well I ended up in, you guessed it, Grnd. Radio Equip. Repair! You go where they need you, not where you want!

[DaveHH]

My wife has an IQ of 157 and she's always right, no matter what the subject. I was curious about which of these tests measures that component. Shooter should have a smart remark about this statement. I know that we only had five guys in our company that were qualified for SF and I was one of those. I also was qualified for OCS and there were only a hundred or so in the whole 5th Infantry division. Thank God that I sat next to an Infantry Captain that had just come back from the Ia Drang fight in Nov 1965. He said that if I wanted to get killed I should go to OCS, otherwise forget it. I should have kissed him for that little tidbit of advice. Six months later I was in Vietnam anyway.

[John Sukey (Deceased)]

Anybody here married to a wife who WASN'T always right???
Now for the second part, did anybody here TELL their wife she wasn't always right???

[Mike Haas]

Did the USMC actually require a "aptidue" test as a requirement for enlistemnt??

[Mike Haas]

Did the USMC actually require a "aptidue" test as a requirement for enlistemnt??

[0311Shooter]

Dave HH over there on the Left Coast has me pretty much pegged. I do have some remarks about his situation.

Since he made the same test scores in RC Radio Code and ARC Radio Code, is shows that the tests were on the up and up, Dave HH was the one who was the oddball.

Yes, we can indeed thank that Infantry Captain because without his sound advise we probably would not have Dave HH around today to start such a useless thread here in 2009.

It's easy to see who wears the pants in that household over there in La La Land. The SMART one.

[lboos]

Did the USMC actually require a "aptidue" test as a requirement for enlistemnt??

Mike, What is a "aptidue" test ?