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Military considers allowing calculators on entrance exams as recruiting slumps
- Alifatisk 3y agoI don't know about this
- red-iron-pine 3y ago> The change in the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, or ASVAB, could help relieve an ongoing recruiting slump, which is attributed to many young Americans not scoring high enough to qualify for enlistment. It would also put the ASVAB on par with how test-taking has evolved in the past decade, with calculators being widely used in math classes and on college entrance exams such as the ACT and SAT. I'm not especially concerned about this, sounds like it is in-line with the rest of society. If they need more bodies the easiest way for the military is to issue more waivers for legal and physical issues.
- fatfingerd 3y agoIsn't medic a valid military vocation? I'm not really sure anyone should be allowed to administer substances with an LD50 if they are functionally illiterate at identifying an improbable calculation.
- halJordan 3y agoThe question becomes, what do you do with dumb people? In the same vein as what do you do with fat people? I'm a big fan of taking fat people off the street and sending them to a fat camp for 3 months before they hit book camp. It's an easily solve-able problem. Same with low-asvab scorers. Send them to a summer camp reteaching algebra & English & civics. The Surge ended almost 15 years ago, but every unit still has someone to tell the story of "that one guy" who was a dumber than a bag of hammers and shouldn't have been handling weapons. The only thing we shouldn't do is return to those days.