Academic Skills Training

Elevate Your Career

Improve Your ASVAB/AFCT Score

• Assess Strengths & Weaknesses: Training modules are tailored to help build skills in areas that need improvement.
• Earn Completion Certificates: Certificates are downloadable and available for proof of completion. Service education counselors may recommend you re-take the Armed Forces Classification Test (AFCT).
• Get Help When Needed: Use the Academic Help Desk and Online Tutoring 24/7.
• Improve Your Scores: OASC can help you improve your Armed Forces Classification Test (AFCT) or college-entry exam scores.
• Learn Anytime and Anywhere: Download the OASC Academic Skills Training mobile app to work on building your skills no matter where you are.
• Complete on Your Schedule: Interactive lessons, games, and drills support your personal learning style. The self-paced programs allow you to work at your own speed.
• Network with Other Learners: A peer-to-peer discussion area is available for questions and networking.
• Be Successful! Practice tests, quizzes, and an end-of-course test provide feedback to ensure that you master the material for training success.

   

   

  Writing Lab

   

  

  • The Writing Lab provides writing support virtually to eligible military students throughout the writing process. Unlike on-demand online tutoring, the Writing Lab is not real-time support that occurs through live video, audio, or text-based chat. Instead, a student submits a writing assignment, and an academic writing tutor will read it, leave feedback, and return it to the student within 12 hours, guaranteed – often that feedback is returned even faster.

     

    Writing Lab tutors provide feedback on:

    • Meeting assignment expectations
    • Clear focus/purpose/thesis statement
    • Logical and appropriate organization
    • Topic and paragraph development
    • Integrating research appropriately
    • Appropriate voice/style for genre
    • Formatting/citations/references
    • Correct grammar and punctuation
    For students working on essays and writing projects over an extended period of time, they can submit revised pieces multiple times – increasing their mastery of writing at each revision stage. Feedback provided during the writing process is often more impactful to student learning than feedback provided after a submission. Sign up for your account today!

  
  Program Eligibility

   

  All actively serving members in the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard, as well as members of the National Guard, Reserve components, DoW civilians, and their family members, can use the Academic Skills Training program to help improve their math, English, science, writing, and other communication skills.