Exam Answer Sheet Proccessing

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The Navy Advancement Center (NAC) processes over 270,000 answer sheets annually. The packages are mailed in from around the world, and once received the NAC N321 staff takes great care in opening, verifying, counting and recounting each exam answer sheet package. When aswer sheet returns don't match the answer sheet transmittal letter information, NAC staff contacts the command that mailed the package to resolve the discrepancy. Once 75% of the Cycle answer sheets have been scanned, a process is initiated in the Navy Enlisted Advancement System to check exam answer keys against Fleet responses. 

At the 90% scan mark, standard scores for each rating are determined by spreading the raw scores (number of questions answer correctly) by each candidate on a scale of 20 to 80. That process is called the raw score to standard score conversion and is vital to the Final Multiple Score and rank order. Then, when at least 95% of the projected answer sheets have been returned, NAC will complete a process that counts the number of candidates that pass the exam in each rating and send that information to the Enlisted Community Managers and OPNAV's Enlisted Planners to begin the quota build process. 
Expediting answer sheet returns and minimizing the number of substitute exams helps speed up the process described. As of today, NAC has approximately 70% of the Active Duty and Full Time Support E7 answer sheets returned from the January 21 exam administration (Cycle 230). The Chief Petty Officer selection board eligibility list should be published in early March. Good luck to all candidates.