How should I feel about my CFAT results?

[Spartansurrender]

Before people tell me to read the website, I assure you I've gone through Forces.ca a million times and I can't really find what I'm looking for. I've been trolling around this forum looking for answers, and while I have found some great info (from this great community) I haven't really encountered what I'm looking for yet. Having said that, the story is this:

I wrote my CFAT today and they said I did "extremely well" and I am eligable for 53 trades and they scheduled me for my medical. I know how sales work and I feel like they'd say my score was great even if I did moderately well. I'm curious as to what "extremely well" means in terms of my actual grade and also, how many trades are there? 53 out of 200 isn't that great, ya know? And what kind of bearing does this have on my ability to be a Log officer? What I really want is to be in logistics and put my soon-to-be completed degree to work.

Can someone with some insight into this CFAT business please enlighten me on what happened here today and what this means for my future in the force? I do my medical in a few weeks, I suppose I can ask then, but I was hoping to know ... well... now.

Thanks

 

[chrisf]

Did you qualify for the trade you wanted? If so, please remove the chip from your shoulder, say thank you, and move forward to being the best soldier you want be.

 

[bomber12]

If they said you did good on the CFAT and you qualified for your trade, then why don't you just leave it at that?

 

[PMedMoe]

If you want to compare, when I first did the CFAT (not the same test as now), I qualified for every trade with the exception of combat arms (women weren't allowed then) and firefighter (due to height requirements).  So I would say if you qualified for 53/200 trades, you did moderately well.  Don't forget the test is in three parts so you may have done very well in one or two sections, just not overall.  If you qualified for the trade you want, does it really matter in the end?

 

[benny88]

53 out of 200 isn't that great, ya know?

How many Officer trades do you think there are? I doubt it's 200.

 

[dustinm]

How many Officer trades do you think there are? I doubt it's 200.

Benny,

The CFAT is the same for both Enlisted and Officer trades, so (I'm guessing?) they have no idea what MOC a person has picked when they write it. As the CF ad(s) states, there are "over one hundred full and part-time opportunities."

 

[benny88]

Benny,

The CFAT is the same for both Enlisted and Officer trades, so (I'm guessing?) they have no idea what MOC a person has picked when they write it. As the CF ad(s) states, there are "over one hundred full and part-time opportunities."

When I was in a CFRC we may not have known exact trades, but we did know if they were going Officer/NCM (Disclaimer- Sometimes minds are changed, but usually an applicant knows one way or another). Yes the CFAT is the same, but if he is going Officer for sure, there would be no reason to tell him how many NCM trades he qualified for.

 

[Otis]

Before people tell me to read the website, I assure you I've gone through Forces.ca a million times and I can't really find what I'm looking for. I've been trolling around this forum looking for answers, and while I have found some great info (from this great community) I haven't really encountered what I'm looking for yet. Having said that, the story is this:

I wrote my CFAT today and they said I did "extremely well" and I am eligible for 53 trades and they scheduled me for my medical. I know how sales work and I feel like they'd say my score was great even if I did moderately well. I'm curious as to what "extremely well" means in terms of my actual grade and also, how many trades are there? 53 out of 200 isn't that great, ya know? And what kind of bearing does this have on my ability to be a Log officer? What I really want is to be in logistics and put my soon-to-be completed degree to work.

Can someone with some insight into this CFAT business please enlighten me on what happened here today and what this means for my future in the force? I do my medical in a few weeks, I suppose I can ask then, but I was hoping to know ... well... now.

Thanks

Typical LogO ... overthinking things ... *just kidding, I'm a bin rat!* 

FIRST of all ... the Canadian Forces is NOT in the business of 'sales' ... though we do marketing for Recruiting purposes,once you're in the door and applying, we have no reason to pad your ego. If they said you did "extremely well", they meant it (at least in comparison to the other typical test results from that center)

We do not release actual results of the CFAT, so you will not know your score. I have never counted the actual number of trades, but your score (based upon the # of trades you say they said you were qualified for) is above average.

What is going to have a MUCH greater bearing on your ability to join as a LogO is the fact that we're not hiring any more Regular Force Logistics officers this year (you didn't state whether you were Reg or Res, and I forgot to look at your profile) ... if you qualified for Log, you qualified for Log ... that won't change, you'll just have to wait for an opening.

 

[derael]

Yupp, they told you that you did extremely well to make you feel better about yourself. The military is all about feelings and share circles.  :

 

[Doom]

Yupp, they told you that you did extremely well to make you feel better about yourself. The military is all about feelings and share circles.  :

Wow that actually made me laugh  ;D  I didn't ask how I did on my CFAT, that was two years ago.

 

[josh54243]

Yupp, they told you that you did extremely well to make you feel better about yourself. The military is all about feelings and share circles.  :

Uh Oh...someone is trying to de-rail our self-esteem engine!

I bet thats why they send rejection letters in the mail instead of calling :nod:

 

[Lambo1982]

Well, I just checked my sheet... I qualified for 58 different jobs...?

I dont think it matters much though, just as long as you are eligible for the job you wanted/choose to accept.

 

[CallOfDuty]

  ...I could see if you really wanted to be, oh I don't know, a Bioscience officer, and you didn't score high enough on the CFAT,and you're upset.....but you want to be a LogO( no disrespect..).  I'm sure you did just fine. 
 

 

[Eye In The Sky]

Benny,

The CFAT is the same for both Enlisted and Officer trades, so (I'm guessing?) they have no idea what MOC a person has picked when they write it. As the CF ad(s) states, there are "over one hundred full and part-time opportunities."

Enlisted is an American term is it not?  I'd think if you were going to correct someone, you'd atleast make the effort to cross your Is and dot your Ts yourself.  In Canada, we call it non-commissioned.

 

[FastEddy]

I was going to comment, but thought better of it, I'll just watch where this goes.

Cheers. 

 

[TangoTwoBravo]

Enlisted is an American term is it not?  I'd think if you were going to correct someone, you'd atleast make the effort to cross your Is and dot your Ts yourself.  In Canada, we call it non-commissioned.

Nice necro-jack! He made that comment six months ago. As an aside, it is usually more effective to dot the Is and cross the Ts, but maybe you mixed them up on purpose. If you didn't at least the irony is rich

Happy Holidays!

 

[Journeyman]

I too was going to point out the obvious -- that the thread is six-months old.

And since the original poster was only here for one day, to post the one question, I can only presume that his feeling about the CFAT result was.....suicidal.  ;D

 

[Eye In The Sky]

Awwwwwwwwwwwww crap!  Ok I'll be the Honest Henry here and admit I did NOT notice the comment I quoted was 6 months old...I saw Lambo1982s post from today, started reading up from it and...well, my post shows the rest.  :blotto:  (I did, however, mix up the Is and Ts on purpose.  I am dumb but not THAT dumb (mostly, I should add).

In my defence, I was posting and watching Public Enemies at the same time.  Not a bad movie!

Maybe I should just claim to be half in the bag, so everyone would go "oh, well that explains it".  Truth is, nope, sober..just from Prince County, thats all.  ;D

Gotta love when your own post amplifies the point you were trying to make!  :rofl:

 

[armyvern]

Prince County PEI --- that does explain everything!!  >

I was drunk there once ... I can't believe you're on here claiming that you're not drunk today ...

 

[Eye In The Sky]

Prince County PEI --- that does explain everything!!  >

I was drunk there once ... I can't believe you're on here claiming that you're not drunk today ...

;D