Which AFSC has the Smartest People?derek

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Which AFSC has the smartest people? I have no idea. The ASVAB is not an intelligence test, it’s an aptitude test, which estimates your ability to learn certain types of skills and excel at certain types of jobs.

Does a higher ASVAB score mean that a person is smarter than someone who has a low score? Not necessarily. It could mean they studied more, perform better on standardized multiple choice tests, tried harder, cared more, got a better night’s sleep than the other person, etc.

All that being said, I’ve compiled a sort-able table that shows you which AFSC’s have the highest ASVAB scorers. It shows the raw number of people in the career field that made a score in that range, as well as the percentage of the career field with that score and the total number of people in that career field.

Also, I only factored in the overall AFQT score. People with a low overall AFQT score could have scored highly in the mechanical category for instance, it just didn’t translate over to an overall high AFQT score.

This information is accurate as of May 2015.

Quick results

Five “smartest” AFSCs by ASVAB score as percentage of career field scoring a 93 or higher:

  1. 9S100 – Technical Applications Specialist
  2. 1N3X1 – Cryptologic Linguist
  3. 1A8X1 – Airborne Cryptologic Linguist
  4. 3N2X1 – Premier Band
  5. 3N1X1 – Regional Band

Explanation: The first three have some of the highest ASVAB requirements of any job in the Air Force, so of course they are going to have higher average numbers. They are also very technical career fields that require someone able to learn difficult material quickly.

Premier and regional band members usually come into the Air Force with bachelor’s or master’s degrees and are already professional musicians, so they have a great deal more education than the average enlistee.

Five “dumbest” AFSCs by ASVAB score as percentage of career field scoring a 93 or higher:

  1. 3S1X1 – Military Equal Opportunity
  2. 5R0X1 – Chaplain Assistant
  3. 2T0X1 – Traffic Management
  4. 1C0X1 – Airfield Management
  5. 3M0X1 – Services

Explanation: Again, the ASVAB is not an intelligence test. There are plenty of smart people in these career fields, they just may not test well, they may not have studied for the ASVAB, they may be someone that likes to work with their hands more than learn languages or perform technical calculations, etc.

3/5 of these jobs are also open to non-citizens, which may mean that they are ESL (English as a Second Language) which would have a large impact on their ability to do well on the ASVAB.

Instructions

You can click on the headings to sort the table by score or AFSC. For instance sort by 93+ Percentage to see which AFSC has the highest percentage of people in the career field with an overall ASVAB score of 93 or higher. You can click again to see which AFSC has the lowest number.

AFSC31-49 Raw31-49 Percent50-64 Raw50-64 Percent65-92 Raw65-92 Percent93+ Raw93+ PercentTotal in Career Field
1A0XX313.99%20926.90%44857.66%698.88%777
1A1XX789.54%19123.35%44153.91%627.58%818
1A2XX944.04%48220.73%1,45062.37%24710.62%2,325
1A3XX502.81%30817.32%1,15665.02%24713.89%1,778
1A6XX7434.42%6530.23%6630.70%62.79%215
1A8XX80.39%301.45%1,08552.59%91844.50%2,063
1A9XX838.96%21723.43%49853.78%9510.26%926
1B4XX153.71%379.16%24660.89%9523.51%404
1C0XX60738.30%60137.92%31319.75%191.20%1,585
1C1XX461.31%45212.83%2,51371.31%48713.82%3,524
1C2XX405.66%12918.25%43661.67%8712.31%707
1C3XX19811.80%47728.43%83950.00%1136.73%1,678
1C4XX967.15%40930.48%72453.95%916.78%1,342
1C5XX353.02%40334.80%64455.61%595.09%1,158
1C6XX665.89%26423.55%63756.82%14312.76%1,121
1C7XX12615.69%24029.89%39148.69%283.49%803
1C8XX272.15%19515.53%85768.23%16613.22%1,256
1N0XX972.88%65719.52%2,11662.88%42612.66%3,365
1N1XX722.23%2317.16%2,35873.12%49915.47%3,225
1N2XX351.80%28714.78%1,30967.40%30015.45%1,942
1N3XX20.06%90.25%1,76848.98%1,81250.19%3,610
1N4XX361.62%29013.08%1,53869.37%33315.02%2,217
1P0XX50823.36%80136.83%73433.75%562.57%2,175
1S0XX6920.29%11032.35%12536.76%92.65%340
1T0XX111.77%11618.65%40064.31%8012.86%622
1T2XX233.78%11719.24%35057.57%11018.09%608
1U0XX696.87%24023.90%55855.58%989.76%1,004
1W0XX220.82%1666.19%2,04976.43%41915.63%2,681
2A0XX231.95%19716.69%79367.20%15212.88%1,180
2A2XX241.62%23415.77%1,04670.49%16811.32%1,484
2A3XX1,14010.25%2,97226.72%6,09354.77%8017.20%11,124
2A5XX1,55512.24%4,05531.93%6,30249.62%5904.65%12,700
2A6XX2,08012.68%4,82329.40%8,43251.41%7654.66%16,402
2A7XX64414.16%1,53833.82%2,09846.14%1984.35%4,547
2A8XX381.68%39317.40%1,59970.81%2028.95%2,258
2A9XX271.37%30715.56%1,39170.50%22311.30%1,973
2F0XX37312.46%1,05035.08%1,44448.25%822.74%2,993
2G0XX16322.80%26436.92%23833.29%223.08%715
2M0XX1246.97%38121.42%1,05659.36%18410.34%1,779
2P0XX111.43%9812.73%55371.82%10413.51%770
2R0XX172.74%22135.59%34054.75%355.64%621
2R1XX11115.23%36950.62%22530.86%121.65%729
2S0XX1,88432.51%2,31139.88%1,35523.38%791.36%5,795
2T0XX66541.54%58436.48%27317.05%171.06%1,601
2T1XX45423.38%71836.97%67934.96%452.32%1,942
2T2XX60514.06%1,48534.51%2,00046.48%1393.23%4,303
2T3XX60920.37%1,05035.13%1,19640.01%571.91%2,989
2W0XX3525.70%1,62526.29%3,78361.21%3665.92%6,180
2W1XX1,25920.43%2,08033.74%2,37738.56%3235.24%6,164
2W2XX405.63%13218.59%44963.24%8311.69%710
3A1XX1,66241.39%1,40234.92%76619.08%581.44%4,015
3D0XX4636.21%95012.74%4,83964.87%1,08614.56%7,459
3D1XX1,20910.11%2,18918.31%7,11159.48%1,27610.67%11,955
3E0XX49617.45%81928.81%1,35147.52%1294.54%2,843
3E1XX45433.48%43331.93%39429.06%392.88%1,356
3E2XX37820.95%70539.08%64735.86%321.77%1,804
3E3XX20712.89%54734.06%77348.13%573.55%1,606
3E4XX26115.90%57735.16%72444.12%482.93%1,641
3E5XX333.59%22524.46%51656.09%13314.46%920
3E6XX8216.24%20640.79%17234.06%254.95%505
3E7XX49916.32%1,23540.40%1,18338.70%1013.30%3,057
3E8XX100.75%725.37%96171.72%27720.67%1,340
3E9XX142.08%11416.91%47770.77%517.57%674
3M0XX87926.48%1,49144.91%81524.55%411.23%3,320
3N0XX433.37%17613.78%88068.91%15111.82%1,277
3N1XX112.71%286.90%22254.68%13934.24%406
3N2XX21.14%105.71%9152.00%7241.14%175
3P0XX4,88720.57%9,77641.15%8,07834.00%5662.38%23,759
3S0XX1,67439.36%1,58837.34%79818.76%551.29%4,253
3S1XX6342.57%3926.35%2919.59%00.00%148
3S2XX18218.86%25926.84%41543.01%262.69%965
3S3XX5212.84%6716.54%21653.33%399.63%405
4A0XX40916.74%1,14546.87%81233.24%441.80%2,443
4A1XX16318.42%41346.67%28532.20%141.58%885
4A2XX183.50%417.96%34066.02%11221.75%515
4B0XX798.80%30033.41%44849.89%535.90%898
4C0XX242.95%21526.41%50261.67%445.41%814
4D0XX2310.80%8238.50%9544.60%83.76%213
4E0XX15413.18%52044.52%44538.10%221.88%1,168
4H0XX257.31%12135.38%17049.71%226.43%342
4J0XX195.85%11234.46%17553.85%144.31%325
4M0XX3412.93%12045.63%9536.12%83.04%263
4N0XX5849.37%2,29736.87%2,98547.91%2724.37%6,230
4N1XX6510.28%25840.82%26842.41%335.22%632
4P0XX8110.62%32742.86%31841.68%222.88%763
4R0XX778.63%35039.24%39744.51%637.06%892
4T0XX111.07%12211.84%77675.34%11711.36%1,030
4V0XX41.90%8239.05%11052.38%115.24%210
4Y0XX24212.13%79840.00%86443.31%552.76%1,995
5J0XX12714.80%27031.47%39245.69%333.85%858
5R0XX9730.50%9830.82%10833.96%10.31%318
6C0XX633.51%1357.52%1,30872.87%22512.53%1,795
6F0XX522.56%51725.46%1,27662.83%1527.48%2,031
7S0XX16916.83%24524.40%48348.11%787.77%1,004
9S1XX10.19%20.39%19938.72%30859.92%514