Well, there's no set cutoff, and it's done by percentiles on the Armed Forces Aptitude Test, not raw score. The US military tries to reject the bottom third of

Well, there's no set cutoff, and it's done by percentiles on the Armed Forces Aptitude Test, not raw score. The US military tries to reject the bottom third of candidates, however, the standards are always changing depending on need and the number of people who are interested in joining. It's true that the higher scorers preform better than the lower scorers. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2006/01/why-dumb-recruits-cost-the-army-big-time.html https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2006/01/why-dumb-recruit...