If you are considering a career in the United States Armed Forces, you will first need to complete a rigorous application process. This includes taking and passing the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, or ASVAB. In this article, I will discuss how only discipline and dedication will help you pass your exam.
The ASVAB is a test designed to test you on the many topics you have learned and perhaps forgotten during high school. While you are not expected to go back to full study and remember four years of high school academics, there will certainly be a learning process with hours of study that will ultimately help you pass the exam.
I have spoken with many potential recruits about their ASVAB study habits and study schedule. I often hear complaints of “oh, the material is so difficult” or, better yet, “I will never be able to study everything that is required.”
However, with a bit more research, I learn that it’s not a lack of knowledge that holds these potential recruits back, but a lack of study. Perhaps driven by fear, these potential recruits put off their ASVAB study thinking it’s too hard, so maybe start tomorrow.
Why start studying TOMORROW when you can start today?
If you think that today is not good and that you will start studying tomorrow, I am sorry to break it to you, but it is likely that tomorrow you will find another valid excuse to postpone your studies.
If the US military is truly something that interests you as a job, and maybe even a career, then you should start studying TODAY.
It’s harder to start than to continue
Getting started is really the hard part. Once you start, you will find the motivation to keep going. And maybe you think you don’t have time to start today, but I think you’re wrong. If you can find even FIVE minutes to spare today, then you can definitely start today.
Find your ASVAB study guide or open your ASVAB eBook and just get started. It doesn’t matter what you do on the first day. Maybe you’ll read a chapter on how the ASVAB is scored, or you can even jump right in and start reading about one of the specific subtests in the study data.
As long as you start. Tomorrow forces you to open your book again, even if it’s just for 10 minutes. Keep doing this every day and before you know it you will have been successful with your ASVAB studies.