Take a sample Armed Services Vocation Aptitude Battery test for the Marines. Begin with part one of our Marines ASVAB sample test below:
After completing Part 1 take the rest of our ASVAB practice test sections. Get ready for your career with the Marines with the help of ASVAB Practice Test Online.
Marine ASVAB Score Requirements
Like the other branches of the military there are also minimum ASVAB scores for Marines. The United States Marine Corps – USMC has several minimum requirements based on information from the ASVAB test for those interested in enlisting.
High school graduates need to get a ASVAB score of 32 to “pass” the ASVAB. However those without a high school diploma but have a high school equivalency or GED must score a 50 to be able to enlist in the United States Marine Corps.
Many jobs within the Marines have ASVAB score requirements, so it is important to not only pass the ASVAB test but to do as well as you can.
Positions or jobs in the Marines are referred to as a Military Occupational Specialty, more commonly abbreviated to “MOS”. The Marines calculates what Military Occupational Specialty you qualify for by assembling various ASVAB subtest scores into groups, known as line scores. You can find a full list of Marine Corps MOS Codes.
Marine ASVAB Subtests
The following are ASVAB subtests that have been recently used by the Marine Corps. All subtests are currently active except for Numerical Operations and Coding Speed. The first four are used to calculator the dAFQT score.
- Arithmetic Reasoning (AR)
- Mathematics Knowledge (MK)
- Word Knowledge (WK)
- Paragraph Comprehension (PC)
- General Science (GS)
- Numerical Operations (NO)
- Coding Speed (CS)
- Auto and Shop Information (AS)
- Mechanical Comprehension (MC)
- Electronics Information (EI)
- Sum of Word Knowledge and Paragraph Comprehension (VE)
Check with your local Marines recruiting office or point of contact for an up to date list of Military Occupational Specialty requirements as they can change on a regular basis. Line score requirements listed online, even those found on the Marines website, may not be completely accurate. We will try to keep this list as up to date as possible.
Marine Line Scores
Line Score | Abreviation | ASVAB Subset Scores Used | Formula |
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Electronics | EL | General Science – Arithmetic Reasoning – Mathematics Knowledge – Electronics Information | GS+AR+MK+EI |
Clerical | CL | Sum of Word Knowledge and Paragraph Comprehension – Arithmetic Reasoning – Mathematics Knowledge | VE+AR+MK |
General Technical | GT | Sum of Word Knowledge and Paragraph Comprehension – Arithmetic Reasoning | VE+AR |
Skilled Technical | ST | General Science – Sum of Word Knowledge and Paragraph Comprehension – Mathematics Knowledge – Mechanical Comprehension | GS+VE+MK+MC |
Mechanical Maintenance | MM | Numerical Operations – Auto and Shop Information – Mechanical Comprehension – Electronics Information | NO+AS+MC+EI |