Army ASVAB score: the minimum, GT and every line score
Type your AR and VE for the GT, and open the other scores for the full set of Army line scores, from Clerical to Skilled Technical.
Army GT line score
106
Exact formula: 1.074292 × (AR + VE) - 7.443781, rounded. AFQT 59.
| AR + VE | 106 |
| Officer Candidate School floor (GT) | 110 |
| Army AFQT minimum | 31 |
Weights from Segall (2004), table 2.7. The score on your MEPS printout prevails.
| Line score | Score | Status |
|---|---|---|
| GT, General Technical | 106 | exact |
| CL, Clerical | 104 | estimate, 2004 weights |
| CO, Combat | 102 | estimate, 2004 weights |
| EL, Electronics | 103 | estimate, 2004 weights |
| FA, Field Artillery | 102 | estimate, 2004 weights |
| GM, General Maintenance | 102 | estimate, 2004 weights |
| MM, Mechanical Maintenance | 101 | estimate, 2004 weights |
| OF, Operators and Food | 103 | estimate, 2004 weights |
| SC, Surveillance and Communications | 103 | estimate, 2004 weights |
| ST, Skilled Technical | 103 | estimate, 2004 weights |
Prepared by Radif Partners · Method · official sources read on October 22, 2026 · published formulas and tables
To enlist in the Army you need an AFQT of at least 31, as goarmy.com states, which is a sum of 183 on AR + MK + 2VE. The Army also describes a Future Soldier Preparatory Course with an academic track for applicants who score 21 or more, and a second option for scores from 31 to 49. Once eligible, jobs, called MOS, are assigned on ten line scores. The General Technical score, GT, is computed exactly from Arithmetic Reasoning and Verbal Expression: 1.074292 × (AR + VE) - 7.443781, rounded, so AR 50 and VE 50 give 100 and AR 55 and VE 57 give 113. The other nine, from Clerical to Skilled Technical, weight seven subtests differently; this site applies the 2004 weights and labels them as estimates, because the Army may have revised them. All Army line scores have a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 20.
The floor and the preparatory course
The Army ASVAB page gives the minimum plainly: an ASVAB score of at least 31 to enlist. It adds that applicants with a minimum score of 21 may qualify for the academic track of the Future Soldier Preparatory Course, and that applicants between 31 and 49 could qualify for a second option of the course. The course is a way to reach or exceed the standard with help before basic training, not a lower standard. In sums, 21 corresponds to 171 on AR + MK + 2VE and 31 to 183.
The GT, the line score you meet everywhere
The 1997 score scale report gives the GT formula separately and exactly: the sum AR + VE is multiplied by 1.074292, reduced by 7.443781 and rounded, which places it on a scale with mean 100 and standard deviation 20. Each point of AR or VE adds about one point of GT. The Army GT page works through targets such as 100, 107 and 110, the score that state National Guard pages give for Officer Candidate School.
GT and the points you still need
Army GT score
109
| AR + VE | 108 |
| Points of AR + VE still needed | 1 |
| One point of AR or VE | about 1.07 GT |
| AFQT with the same AR and VE (MK 50) | 62 |
The nine other composites
The other line scores combine seven subtests with weights chosen to predict success in training. Table 2.7 of the same report gives them for the 1997 scale. The calculator applies them to your scores and labels the result as an estimate: the report dates from 2004, and the Army may have updated the weights since. In practice an estimate can differ from the printout by a few points, so use it to see which composites are strong or weak, and the printout for a decision near a minimum.
| Line score | GS | AR | MK | MC | EI | AS | VE | Constant |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CL | 0.00 | 0.75 | 0.59 | 0.12 | 0.08 | 0.07 | 0.68 | -14.3 |
| CO | 0.20 | 0.33 | 0.63 | 0.38 | 0.20 | 0.41 | 0.30 | -23.2 |
| EL | 0.08 | 0.44 | 0.49 | 0.26 | 0.30 | 0.37 | 0.50 | -22.5 |
| FA | 0.15 | 0.42 | 0.60 | 0.43 | 0.16 | 0.36 | 0.32 | -22.3 |
| GM | 0.24 | 0.46 | 0.45 | 0.29 | 0.30 | 0.51 | 0.22 | -23.4 |
| MM | 0.06 | 0.33 | 0.29 | 0.40 | 0.31 | 0.87 | 0.21 | -23.1 |
| OF | 0.14 | 0.54 | 0.34 | 0.37 | 0.20 | 0.50 | 0.37 | -22.8 |
| SC | 0.01 | 0.43 | 0.64 | 0.25 | 0.32 | 0.25 | 0.53 | -21.2 |
| ST | 0.13 | 0.49 | 0.48 | 0.31 | 0.14 | 0.22 | 0.62 | -19.7 |
Reading the weights
The table shows what each composite rewards. Mechanical Maintenance, MM, leans heavily on Auto and Shop. Clerical, CL, ignores General Science and leans on AR, MK and VE. Combat, CO, mixes most subtests with moderate weights. Surveillance and Communications, SC, leans on MK and VE. If you want a family of jobs, the subtests with the largest weights in its composite are the ones to practice.
What this page leaves out
The minimum line score of each Army MOS is not on this site. The list changes and could not be read in full on the day of the check. The AFQT floor, the GT formula and the 2004 weights are documented; the job minimums come from your recruiter. The line score page compares the Army composites with the Marine Corps and Air Force ones from the same scores.
Raising a line score before a retest
Because every composite is a weighted sum, the gain from a subtest is easy to predict. Take an applicant with AR 48 and VE 50: the GT is 98. Four more points of AR bring it to 102, and four more points of VE as well bring it to 106. The same AR gain also lifts the AFQT, since AR is part of it, while a gain in Auto and Shop moves MM a lot and the AFQT not at all. Retest rules apply to the whole battery: one month after the first test, one month after the second, then six months, and Official ASVAB asks for a confirmation test after a jump of 20 AFQT points or more within six months.