[itsahoot]

They are not testing if you are intelligent, just if you can look at goofy patterns and pick which one comes next. Stuff that you use to do in elementary as “fun assignments” you would get at the end of the school year.

You can qualify on the basis of your Military ASVB scores. If you qualified for OSC your score is likely enough to qualify.

[octex]

When 18 in the Navy at Charleston, I took the battery tests. Scores qualified me for any school the Navy offered, including opportunity for OCS.

I only had a two year active duty commitment and was a stupid 18 y/o. To agree to those schools or OCS would mean extending my enlistment by as much as 4 years. I made the STUPID decision and said “No”. Ended up in V-2 Catapults Division on a carrier. I regret to this day that decision and still wonder how my life would have been different if I’d said “Yes” and gone to OCS.