E-6 promotion board questions 2025-2026 with expert solutions

WHAT ARMY REGULATION COVERS UNIFORM AND APPEARANCE?

AR-670-1

WHAT AR COVERS ASAP?

AR-600-85

WHAT AR COVERS ARMY WEIGHT CONTROL PROGRAM?

AR-600-9

WHAT AR COVERS ARMY COMMAND POLICY?

AR-600-20

WHAT AR COVERS MILITARY AWARDS?

AR-600-8-22

WHAT AR COVERS ENLISTED PROMOTIONS AND REDUCTIONS?

AR-600-8-19

WHAT AR COVERS NCOERS?

AR 623-3

WHAT AR COVERS AER(ARMY EMERGENCY RELIEF) LOANS?

AR 930-4

WHAT AR COVERS REDCROSS?

AR 930-5

WHAT AR COVERS ARMY COMMUNITY SERVICE?

AR 608-1

WHAT AR COVERS ACES (ARMY CONTINUING EDUCATION SYSTEM)?

AR 621-5

WHAT TC COVERS DRILL AND CERMONY?

TC 3-21.5

WHAT FM COVERS APFT?

FM 7-22

WHAT AR COVERS THE ARMY PHYSICAL FITNESS PROGRAM?

AR 350-1 CHAPTER 1 SECTION 4

WHAT AR COVERS MILITARY CUSTOMS AND COURTESY?

AR 600-25

WHAT FM COVERS LEADERSHIP?

FM 6-22

WHAT FM COVERS COUNSELING?

FM 6-22 APPENDIX B

WHAT AR COVERS MILITARY JUSTICE?

AR 27-10

WHAT TC COVERS MAP READING AND LAND NAVIGATION?

TC 3-25.26

WHAT AR COVERS ARMY TRAINING and LEADER DEVELOPMENT?

AR 350-1

WHAT ARE THREE WAYS A SOLDIER MAYBE REDUCED FOR MISCONDUCT?

1. ARTICLE 15

2. COURT MARTIAL

3. CONVICTION BY CIVIL COURT

WHAT IS DONE FOR SOLDIERS E-4 AND BELOW WHO MEET PROMOTION ELIGIBILITY WITHOUT WAIVERS, BUT ARE NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PROMOTION?

SOLDIER IS COUNSELED, COUNSELING NEEDS TO BE FOCUSED ON AREAS WHERE THE SOLDIER NEEDS TO IMPROVE

WHAT ARE FIVE WAYS A SOLDIER CAN BE IDENTIFIED AS HAVING A SUBSTANCE ABUSE ISSUE?

1. VOLUNTARY

2. COMMANDER/ SUPERVISOR

3. BIOCHEMICAL (DRUG TEST)

4. MEDICAL IDENTIFICATION

5. INVESTIGATION OR APPREHENSION

WHAT DOES ASAP STAND FOR?

ARMY SUBSTANCE ABUSE PROGRAM

WILL SOLDIERS WHO ARE COMMAND REFERRED TO ASAP BE FLAGGED?

YES UNDR AR 600-8-2 (FLAGS)

IF CIRCUMSTANCE PREVENT THE WEIGHING OF SOLDIERS IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE APFT, WHEN CAN THEY WEIGHTED?

WITHIN 7 DAYS OF APFT

WHAT IS A TAPE TEST?

METHOD OF DETERMINING THE AMOUNT OF BODY FAT ON A SOLDIER.

HOW OFTEN SHOULD A SOLDIER BE WEIGHTED?

EVERY SIX MONTHS OR every APFT

Which AR covers Army Safety?

AR 385-10

WHAT ARE THE THREE LEVELS OF PROMOTION?

1. UNIT LEVEL

2. SEMI-CENTRALIZED

3. DA CENTRALIZED

WHAT FM COVERS TRAINING THE FORCE?

FM 7-0

Define Leadership.

Leadership is influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivation while operating to accomplish the mission and improving the organization.

What is purpose?

Purpose gives subordinates the reason to act in order to achieve a desired outcome.

What is direction?

Providing clear direction involves communicating how to accomplish a mission: prioritizing tasks, assigning responsibility for completion, and ensuring subordinates understand the standard.

What is motivation?

Motivation supplies the will to do what is necessary to accomplish a mission.

What are the three principal ways that leaders can develop others through which they provide knowledge and feedback?

1. Counseling

2. Coaching

3. Mentoring

What are the three levels of leadership?

1. Direct - Direct leadership is face-to-face, first-line leadership.

2. Organizational - Organizational leaders influence several hundred to several thousand people. They do this

indirectly, generally through more levels of subordinates than do direct leaders.

3. Strategic - Strategic leaders include military and DA civilian leaders at the major command through Department

of Defense levels. Strategic leaders are responsible for large organizations and influence several thousand to

hundreds of thousands of people.

What are the Army Values?

Loyalty

Duty

Respect

Selfless Service

Honor

Integrity

Personal Courage

What is counseling?

Counseling is the process used by leaders to review with a subordinate the subordinate's demonstrated performance and potential.

What are the three major categories of developmental counseling?

1. Event counseling

2. Performance counseling

3. Professional growth counseling

What are the three phases of physical conditioning?

1. Preparatory

2. Conditioning

3. Maintenance

What is a MFT?

Master Fitness Trainer

What is Da Form 3349?

Physical profile form

What is the objective of physical fitness training?

To enhance soldiers' abilities to meet the physical demands of war.

What are the three periods of a normal daily exercise routine?

1. Warm-up

2. Conditioning

3. Cool-down

What are the commands to get a unit from a normal line formation into an extended rectangular formation?

1. Extend to the left, march

2. Arms downward, move

3. Left, Face

4. Extend to the left, march

5. Arms downward, move

6. Right, face

7. From front to rear, count off

8. Even numbers to the left, uncover

Soldiers 55 years of age or older have the option of taking the 3 event APFT or what?

The alternate APFT. An alternate APFT is defined as push-ups, sit-ups and an alternate aerobic event (2.5-mile walk, 800-yard swim, or 6.2-mile bicycle ride).

What is the DA form 705?

Physical Readiness Test Scorecard

Name the two physical fitness formations?

1. Extended Rectangular

2. Circular

What are some techniques leaders may use during the directive approach to counseling?

1. Corrective Training

2. Commanding

What are the three approaches to counseling?

1. Directive

2. Non-directive

3. Combined

What are some examples of Event counseling?

1. Instances of superior or substandard performance.

2. Reception and Integration Counseling.

3. Crisis Counseling

4. Referral Counseling

5. Promotion Counseling

6. Separation Counseling

Leaders should seek to develop and improve what three leader counseling skills?

1. Active Listening

2. Responding

3. Questioning

What form is used for counseling?

DA Form 4856 E

Is it a requirement that a leader counsel his/her subordinates?

Yes. A leader who neglects to counsel his subordinates is negligent in his performance of duty

When was the American Continental Army Established?

14 June 1775

What is the Army's framework for exercising mission command?

a. operations process

What are the major mission command activities

planning, preparing, executing, and assessing

What is the commanders role in the Operational process?

drive the operations process

What is commander's intent

clear concise expression of the purpose of the operation and the desired military end state

what is operational approach

a description of the broad actions the force must take to transform current conditions into those desired at end state

what covers Rifle and Carbine?

TC 3-22.9

what covers first aid?

tc 4-02.1

what ar covers maintenance

AR 750-1

what covers property and accountability

AR 735-5

what covers Drill and ceremony

TC 3-21.5

what covers enlisted promotions and reductions

AR 600-8-19

what covers assignments and utilization

AR 614-200

what covers administrative separation

AR 635-200

what covers MOS Classification and structure development?

AR 611-1

what covers the counseling process>?

ATP 6-22.1

Mission Variables

METTC

Operational Variables

PMESII-PT

Four tenants of unified land operations

simultaneity, depth(time), synchronization and flexibility

10. Combat power 8 functions

Leadership

Information

Mission command,

Movement and maneuver

Intelligence

Fires

Sustainment

Protection

Warfighting functions

Mission command,

Movement and maneuver

Intelligence

Fires

Sustainment

Protection

what is the operations process?

what is commander's intent

a clear and concise expression of the purpose of the operation and the desired military end state that supports mission command

operational approach

a description of the broad actions the force must take to transform current conditions into those desired at end state

Army Planning Methodologies

Army design methodology

MDMP

TLP (troop leading procedures)

Army Design Methodology (ADM)

methodology for applying critical and creative thinking to understand, visualize, and describe unfamiliar problems and approaches to solving them

six principles of mission command are

Build cohesive teams

Create shared understanding

Provide a clear commander's intent

Exercise disciplined initiative

Use mission orders.

Accept prudent risk

Commanders perform three primary tasks to integrate all military functions and actions

Drive the operations process

Develop teams,

Inform and influence audiences