Choose your branch and enter the ten standard scores from your report. Explore how published subtest combinations work, then confirm your reported composites and job requirements with a recruiter.
Test Ninjas Research · Updated October 14, 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.
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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
Nine weighted composites and a rescaled GT sum, standardized
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
Use the official reported percentile
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. The Army GT shown here is the rescaled score, GT = 1.074292 × (AR + VE) - 7.443781, rounded, which stays within 2 points of the plain AR + VE sum for sums between 67 and 133.
What this calculator will not tell you
It carries the composite formulas and deliberately carries no job cut scores. The calculations illustrate definitions in the published DoD score-scale report. The official ASVAB site's composite table, updated April 2025, describes the Army's nine weighted composites as combinations of all the subtests, Assembling Objects included, without posting the weights, so the Army figures here other than GT use the report's 1997 weights and can differ from what the Army reports. That table also lists 15 Navy composites under newer names, such as Specialized 1 for AR + VE; the 10 Navy sums here are the report's. Current requirements can vary by service, job and component. Use your official score report and current service guidance before making a decision.
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Sources: the Department of Defense’s score guide and 1997 ASVAB score-scale report (published service composite definitions). The tool does not determine job eligibility or replace your official report.
Frequently Asked Questions
The AFQT is one percentile, built from four subtests, and it helps services determine enlistment eligibility. Line scores — also called composites — are built from all ten subtests in service-specific combinations, and services use them as part of job qualification requirements. You can clear the AFQT floor comfortably and still be locked out of a job because one line score is short.
General Technical. The Army adds Arithmetic Reasoning and Verbal Expression, then reports the result on a scale with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 20: GT = 1.074292 × (AR + VE) - 7.443781, rounded, as section 2.5.3 of the 1997 score scale report gives it. For sums between 67 and 133 the reported GT is within 2 points of the plain sum. The Navy uses the same AR + VE sum without rescaling (the 1997 report calls it GT; the official ASVAB site now lists it as Specialized 1), and the Marine Corps adds Mechanical Comprehension and rescales AR + MC + VE to a mean of 100.
Services use different score scales. The Army uses weighted composites standardized to a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 20, and rescales its GT sum to the same scale, so an Army line score of 100 is the average of the 1997 reference group. 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. The 1997 score scale report printed the conversion tables of that time in Appendix C, but neither the Air Force nor the official ASVAB site posts a current 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. Use your official report for the reported Air Force percentile.
Both are derived composites that the line score formulas reference. Verbal Expression is a weighted combination of Word Knowledge and Paragraph Comprehension, not their sum. Auto & Shop combines Auto Information and Shop Information, which the computer version gives as two separate subtests and the paper version as a single Auto & Shop subtest. On the computer test you sit neither one; both are computed from the subtests you do sit.
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.