Speaking of… our entire senior class (in a public school) had to take the ASVAB. Based on what a teacher in a position to know admitted to me, this was part of a bargain that the school struck with the military: the school wanted to host an SAT or ACT test, but didn’t have that many desks (the auditorium, which could’ve held that many students at once, didn’t have flip-up desktops in the seats). The military loaned the school lap boards for test day, on the condition that the entire senior class sit for the ASVAB.
I recall some of the multiple-choice questions being along the lines of:
Here is a shape: □
Which one of the following shapes matches this shape? a) □ b) △ c) ○ d) ◇
I’m pleased to say that I scored very well on the test, but the result was that the local recruiter kept calling my house during the summer after I graduated.
However, having actually sat through the test, I will not admit to being smart enough to have done the sensible thing: skip the test, and incur whatever short-term penalty I might have received for doing so. (By that point, I’d already been accepted into college, anyway.)
