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Bronco78 - Thanks for your input and I appreciate your disagreement. In your experience how much did they increase in test scores?bronco78 wrote:I respectfully disagree.WildBill wrote:Unless your nephew was really under the weather or off his game, a retest will give him approximately the same score. This isn't a test that you can study for like a history test. I guess it couldn't hurt, but don't count on it being high enough to make a difference.
In most all cases, and that would be literally hundreds of my soldiers over the years... my Soldiers scores improved after some focused skills practice, ether using a course at our on post ED center, or using one of the self-help study guides. http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&keyword ... y%20guides" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The self-help study guides worked when the person is educated and understood the meterial when taught and just needs refresher. The class room worked better when the Soldier never did understand the material.
Thanks for the update C-dub.C-dub wrote:Good morning everyone.
Talk went okay. He tends to clam up around family anyway, so any two way conversation is good.
Turns out he took a practice test in the recruiters office and scored 46, but then the recruiter took him to the MEPS in Dallas to take it for them and he got a 35.
Nephew still doesn't have any idea what type of job he wants to do in the Army. He agreed to wait until after the election. I, jokingly, told him if the recruiter pressed him and he told him he was going to wait until after the election the might just add 5 points to his score.
If the latter is the reason, he is going to be in for a big surprise. Uncle Sam keeps a close eye on his property.C-dub wrote: ... and see if he's really interested in serving our country or just wants to get away from mom and dad.
I don't have any practical advice, so I wish you good luck.C-dub wrote:I'm going to go over and talk with my Sister and her husband and their son this weekend about the military and what it's like from my perspective and see if he's really interested in serving our country or just wants to get away from mom and dad. The problem is that my perspective is over 25 years old.
He got this big nasty tattoo of a cartoonish girl smoking a doobie covering his left side from his hip to just under his arm. Will something like this keep him out?
