Enter your ten subtest standard scores to get every composite your branch uses. The AFQT decides whether you can enlist; these decide what you can actually do.
Test Ninjas Research · Updated September 11, 2026
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Derived: VE 50AS 50AFQT 48
Army composites
GT General Technical100
CL Clerical100
CO Combat100
EL Electronics100
FA Field Artillery100
GM General Maintenance100
MM Mechanical Maintenance100
OF Operators & Food100
SC Surveillance & Comms100
ST Skilled Technical100
Mean 100, standard deviation 20.
Mean 100, standard deviation 20. Set every slider to 50 — the mean of the standard score scale — to see where an exactly average profile lands on this branch’s scale.
Why the scales differ between branches
A line score of 110 means something completely different depending on who issued it, and this is the most common confusion about ASVAB scores. Each service reports on its own metric:
How each branch reports its composites
Branch
Reported as
Average is
Army
Weighted composites, standardised
100
Marine Corps
Raw sums, rescaled
100
Navy
Plain sums of standard scores
100 per pair of subtests
Air Force
Percentile of the raw MAGE index
about 57 among applicants
So an Army GT of 110 is half a standard deviation above average, while a Navy EL of 220 is also above average — the numbers simply are not on the same footing. When someone quotes an ASVAB line score without naming the branch, the number on its own tells you very little.
What this calculator will not tell you
It carries the composite formulas and deliberately carries no job cut scores. The formulas are stable and published; the cut scores are set by each service, revised with recruiting conditions, and vary by job, by component and sometimes by contract. Any site listing “the” cut score for a role is quoting a number that was true somewhere at some point. Take your line scores to a recruiter.
West Point, the Naval Academy, the Air Force Academy and ROTC scholarships all take an SAT or ACT score, not the ASVAB. Our SAT course covers Reading & Writing and Math in full, with adaptive practice tests and instant scoring.
The AFQT is one percentile, built from four subtests, and it decides whether a service may enlist you at all. Line scores — also called composites — are built from all ten subtests in service-specific combinations, and they decide which jobs you qualify for. You can clear the AFQT floor comfortably and still be locked out of a job because one line score is short.
General Technical. For the Army and Navy it is Arithmetic Reasoning plus Verbal Expression; for the Marine Corps it is Arithmetic Reasoning plus Mechanical Comprehension plus Verbal Expression. It is the most widely referenced line score because a large number of roles are gated on it, and because it is the one most often quoted as a single number.
Because the services genuinely score them differently. The Army uses weighted composites standardised to a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 20, so an Army line score of 100 is exactly average. The Navy reports the plain sum of standard scores, so a Navy composite built from four subtests averages around 200. The Marine Corps rescales its sums to a mean of 100. Comparing a number across services without knowing which scale it is on is meaningless.
The Air Force converts each of its four MAGE indexes — Mechanical, Administrative, General, Electronics — into a percentile from 1 to 99 before reporting it, and the Department of Defense does not publish that conversion table. The raw index shown here is the correct sum of standard scores, but your recruiter will quote you the percentile, which will be a much smaller number. We would rather show the honest input than invent the output.
Both are derived composites that the line score formulas reference. Verbal Expression is built from Word Knowledge and Paragraph Comprehension; Auto & Shop is built from Auto Information and Shop Information, which the computer version administers as two separate subtests and the paper version as one. Neither appears as a subtest you sit, but both appear on your score sheet.
They tell you your composites, which is half the answer. The other half is the cut score each job requires, and those are set by each service, revised regularly, and not published in one authoritative place. This calculator deliberately carries formulas and no cut scores. Take your line scores to a recruiter and ask which roles they open.