Officers at The Basic School: The Corps is ditching its WWII-era intelligence test for this
Philip Athey
In January the Marine Corps rolled out a new cognitive placement test for officers that eventually could change the way the Corps does officer assignments.
It replaces the one Marine officers at The Basic School have been taking since World War II.
The new Criteria Cognitive Aptitude Test was chosen in 2019 as a result of a yearslong search the Corps initiated after finding its roughly 70-year-old test to have “diminished usability,†Capt. Oludare Adeniji, with Marine Corps Manpower and Reserve Affairs, told Marine Corps Times in an email Feb. 7.
Researchers found that scores for the old General Classification Test only provided “pseudo insight into the intelligence of Marine Officers," Adeniji said.
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