AFOQT · Pilot, CSO and ABM composites
Table Reading
Table Reading is the AFOQT subtest in which you get an X and a Y value, find the cell where that column and that row meet in a table of numbers, and pick its value among five.
- Items
- 40
- Time
- 7 minutes
- Answer options
- 5 values
- Composites
- Pilot, CSO, ABM
- Guessing penalty
- None
Screens of the trainer
The subtest
Measures
The subtest measures the ability to read a table quickly and accurately.
Table Reading and Math Knowledge are the only two subtests counted in all three rated composites: Pilot, CSO and ABM.
Format
The pace is 10.5 seconds per item.
The items are easy, and one test-taker in three still leaves the last five items unanswered.
Scoring
Composite scores are reported as percentiles from 1 to 99.
Table Reading shows the largest score gain of any subtest on a retake.
Item types
An X, a Y and a table
The X values run across the top of the table and are the column values. The Y values run down the left side and are the row values. X is read first, then Y, and the number in the cell where they intersect is the answer: pick it among the five options.
The five options are values from the same range as the table, several of them from cells next to the target.
Free practice test
Item 1 of 5
X = +1, Y = -3
Show the answer
Answer: 158
Item 2 of 5
X = +3, Y = +6
Show the answer
Answer: 146
Item 3 of 5
X = -6, Y = -2
Show the answer
Answer: 146
Item 4 of 5
X = +5, Y = +5
Show the answer
Answer: 151
Item 5 of 5
X = +6, Y = -6
Show the answer
Answer: 169
The Frontline Forge trainer
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The cell marked after each answer
Training mode marks the correct value and its cell in the table after each answer, and the clock stops until you press Next. Previous takes you back to the items already answered.
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The real count and clock
Test mode runs 40 items in 7 minutes on one table for the whole session, 35 by 35 with X and Y from -17 to +17, and the four wrong values come from cells one or two steps away. The five items above play on a smaller, 13 by 13 table built by the same rules.
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Ranked against other test-takers
Each score, in Training or Test mode, is ranked against the scores of other test-takers. The Statistics page plots the ranking of every attempt, so the gain a retake brings on this subtest shows attempt by attempt.