Army GT score: the exact formula and the points you need
Type your Arithmetic Reasoning and Verbal Expression standard scores and pick the GT you need: the calculator gives your GT and the points of AR + VE still missing.
Army GT score
109
1 GT points short of 110.
| 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 |
Formula from Segall (2004), section 2.5.3: mean 100 and standard deviation 20 in the 1997 youth sample.
Prepared by Radif Partners · Method · official sources read on October 22, 2026 · published formulas and tables
The Army General Technical score, GT, depends on two subtests only. The 1997 score scale report gives its exact formula: GT equals 1.074292 times the sum of Arithmetic Reasoning and Verbal Expression, minus 7.443781, rounded to the nearest whole number. The result sits on a scale with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 20. With AR 50 and VE 50, the GT is 100. A GT of 100 needs AR + VE of at least 100, a GT of 107 needs 107 and a GT of 110 needs 109. The Hawaii and Minnesota National Guard list a GT of 110 among the requirements of Officer Candidate School. Since only AR and VE count, Mathematics Knowledge, General Science and the technical subtests do nothing for the GT, however high they are.
The formula, exactly
The 1997 score scale report explains, in its section on the Army, that the GT is a unit-weighted sum of AR and VE, standardized so that it has a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 20 in the 1997 youth sample. With the published mean and standard deviation of the sum, the transformation simplifies to 1.074292 × (AR + VE) - 7.443781, then rounded. The calculator applies that line and nothing else, so the GT you see is the one the formula gives for your standard scores.
| GT | Smallest AR + VE | For example AR + VE |
|---|---|---|
| 90 | 91 | 46 + 45 |
| 95 | 95 | 48 + 47 |
| 100 | 100 | 50 + 50 |
| 105 | 105 | 53 + 52 |
| 107 | 107 | 54 + 53 |
| 110 | 109 | 55 + 54 |
| 115 | 114 | 57 + 57 |
| 120 | 119 | 60 + 59 |
Targets that come up often
A GT of 100 is the average of the reference sample. Many Army jobs ask for a GT in the 90s or 100s, often together with a second line score. A GT of 110 is the level the Hawaii Army National Guard and the Minnesota National Guard list for Officer Candidate School. This site does not publish job by job minimums, because the current Army list could not be read in full; for a given MOS, ask the recruiter for the number, then use the calculator to see how far you are.
Points to a GT of 110
Army GT score
105
| AR + VE | 105 |
| Points of AR + VE still needed | 4 |
| One point of AR or VE | about 1.07 GT |
| AFQT with the same AR and VE (MK 50) | 56 |
Where the points come from
Each point of AR or VE adds about 1.07 points of GT before rounding. AR measures word problems solved without a calculator; VE comes from Word Knowledge and Paragraph Comprehension, with Word Knowledge weighing more. An applicant with AR 49 and VE 53 has a GT of 102. Five more AR points give 108; five more VE points give the same, since both enter the sum with the same weight. The cheaper path is the subtest with more room: a lower standard score usually rises faster with practice. The Arithmetic Reasoning practice and the VE page help you choose.
GT and AFQT together
AR and VE also make up three quarters of the AFQT sum, since VE counts twice there. A gain in VE therefore raises both scores at once, while a gain in AR raises the GT and the AFQT one for one. An applicant who works on VE for the GT also moves toward the next AFQT category. The Army page shows all ten line scores from your scores, and the line score calculator compares them with the other services.
The GT of other services
The Marine Corps also has a composite called GT, but it adds Mechanical Comprehension to AR and VE and uses different constants, so the two GT scores are not interchangeable. The Air Force General composite uses AR and VE too, yet reports a percentile. Always check which service's GT a requirement refers to before comparing numbers.
Rounding near a target
The rounding step matters at the edges. A sum of 108 gives a GT of 109, while 109 gives 110: one question on one subtest separates the two. Because standard scores are themselves rounded before the addition, an applicant whose sheet shows a GT one point below a target is often within a single right answer of it. That is worth knowing before a retest decision, and it is also why a recruiter may suggest a retest when a GT falls just short of a program's requirement. The table above gives the smallest sum for each common target, so you can see exactly how many points of AR + VE you need.