AEROGRAPHER'S MATE 3 & 2 



WHO WILL BE ADVANCED? 



Advancement is not automatic. Meeting all 

 of the requirements makes you eligible but 

 does not guarantee your advancement. Some 

 of the factors that determine which persons, 

 out of all of those qualified, will actually be 

 advanced in rate are the score made on the 

 advancement examination, the length of time 

 in service, the performance marks earned, and 

 the number of vacancies being filled in a given 

 rate. 



If the number of vacancies in a given rate 

 exceed the number of qualified personnel, then 

 all of those qualified will be advanced. More 

 often, the number of qualified people exceeds 

 the vacancies. When this happens, the Navy 

 has devised a procedure for advancing those 

 who are best qualified. This procedure is based 

 on combining the three following personnel 

 evaluation systems: 



1. Merit rating system (Annual evaluation 

 and CO. recommendation) 



2. Personnel testing system (Advancement 

 examination score — with some credit for pass- 

 ing previous advancement exams) 



3. Longevity (seniority) system (Time in rate 

 and time in service) 



Simply, credit is given for how much the 

 individual has achieved in the areas of per- 

 formance, advancement test, and seniority. A 

 composite, known as the final multiple score, 

 is generated from these three factors. All of 

 the candidates who have PASSED the examina- 

 tion from a given advancement population are 

 then placed on one list. Based on the final 

 multiple score, the person with the highest 

 multiple score is ranked first, and so on, down 

 to the person with the lowest multiple score. 

 For candidates for E-4, E-5, and E-6, ad- 

 vancement authorizations are then issued, be- 

 ginning at the top of the list, for the number 

 of persons needed to fill the existing vacan- 

 cies. 



Candidates for E-7 whose final multiple 

 scores are high enough will be designated PASS 

 SELBD ELIG (Pass Selection Board Eligible). 

 This means that their names will be placed 

 before the Chief Petty Officer Selection Board, 

 a BUPERS board charged with considering all 



so-designated eligible candidates for advance- 

 ment to CPO. Advancement authorizations for 

 those being advanced to CPO are issued by 

 this board. 



Who, then, are the individuals who are ad- 

 vanced? Basically, they are the ones who 

 achieved the most in preparing for advancement. 

 They were not content to just qualify; they 

 went the extra mile in their training, and 

 through that training and their work experience 

 they developed greater skills, learned more, and 

 accepted more responsibility. 



While it cannot guarantee that any one person 

 will be advanced, the advancement system does 

 guarantee that all persons within a particular 

 rate will compete equally for the vacancies that 

 exist and that the best qualified persons will 

 be advanced. 



EXAMINATION PROCEDURES 



Examinations are given to candidates for 

 advancement to E-4 through E-6 in February 

 and August each year, E-7 through E-9 exams 

 are given only once a year. The time and place 

 of the examinations will be published in the 

 Plan of the Day and in your station or unit 

 paper. You must appear at the designated time 

 and place in the uniform of the day and with 

 your I D card. If you are to take the exam for 

 AG3, no other person taking that exam will 

 sit near you. This helps ensure that all taking 

 the exam have an equal chance. The examiner 

 or a proctor will read to you the instructions 

 to be followed. Be sure you listen to and follow 

 these instructions carefully. 



You will have three hours. Each question on 

 the exam will have four possible answers from 

 which to choose the correct one. Read each 

 question carefully and all of the possible an- 

 swers. If you know the correct answer, mark 

 your answer sheet. If you do not know the 

 answer, go to the next question. This will en- 

 sure that you have time to answer all the ques- 

 tions to which you know the answers in the 

 time allotted. Each time you mark the answer 

 sheet make your mark in the same number 

 as the question. 



After you have gone through the exam and 

 answered all the questions to which you know 

 the answers, go through the exam again and 

 answer the questions that you can limit to 



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