# ASVAB scoring **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 19, 2000, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asvab-scoring/46278 "2000-12-19T03:08:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asvab-scoring/46278/1 "2000-12-19T03:08:13Z")
How do they score the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB)? Can anyone give me a link? Can anyone tell me what a score of 225 really means? ---
**Author:** ![slackergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@slackergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slackergirl)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asvab-scoring/46278/2 "2000-12-19T03:13:04Z")
You could try calling a recruiter. Did you take it because you want to go in the service, or because your whole school did? I don’t know anything about how it’s scored, I took it (them?) about 12 years ago and scored in the 98th percentile across the board (but I don’t remember what that was translated from in points). IIRC they suggested I be a minister or a mechanic. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asvab-scoring/46278/3 "2000-12-19T03:21:18Z")
Oh Oil, who art in bearings, WD-40 be thy weight… Ah well, we all have our skills. I took it in school, and nobody seems to know what exactly the score means. I’ve been told that anyone with a score over 201 gets a call or ten from the military, putting me right on their list. Oh, goody :rolleyes:. ---
**Author:** ![slackergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@slackergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slackergirl)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asvab-scoring/46278/4 "2000-12-19T03:28:43Z")
You will get calls. The school swore that no personal information would be leaked back to the recruiters who proctored the test, but I had phone calls for months. The Air Force wanted me bad. They may have changed the way they score them. I think they gave us a point score and percentile for each section, then an overall percentile. They also had this chart describing what jobs you have an aptitude for. I think we saw the chart a few days after we got the scores back. If you get the chart, I wanna know what you’d be good at!