ASVAB study tips or suggestions?

The ASVAB isn't a difficult test. It's just a refresher of basically what you learned throughout high school. I have a 3 of the better study guides on .pdf files that I used for studying. Message me with your email and I can send you the files. You will need adobe reader to open them.

It's great that you care so much about your husband and want to help him do his best on the ASVAB. Good for you! A supportive spouse is important to a successful military career.

It's not the recruiter's job to provide test preparation materials, but clearly such materials could help your husband score higher, giving him a better chance at enlisting and getting a better job in the Coast Guard.

You don't say when he will be taking the test, but setting up a study schedule and sticking to it will help greatly. Go ahead and purchase a good test preparation book and have him work through it purposefully. The most recommended book is McGraw-Hill's ASVAB. It has a comprehensive review of all the areas on the ASVAB, practice tests, items with explanations, word lists for him to study, math items to work on with explanations given, test taking hints for both the paper/pencil and computer versions, and 4, full-length practice tests. The practice tests will help him identify his strengths and weaknesses so that he can concentrate his study in the right places.

Regardless of how he does on the practice tests, he should focus on the 4 tests that make up the AFQT. The AFQT is made up of 4 tests: Math Knowledge, Arithmetic Reasoning, Paragraph Comprehension and Word Knowledge. That is the initial score that gets you in -- or not if it is too low. The higher his AFQT, the more job options he has. The other ASVAB tests are combined in various ways with these 4 tests to qualify him for training in various occupations.

Taking sample tests is a good thing, but it's the studying of the content that matters.

For the person that offered to send you pdfs of some books is violating federal copyright law, and that could spell trouble for him and for you.

All the best to you and to your husband for a successful military career.