Navy PS1 Advancement Exam Practice Test: Personnel Specialist E-6 Questions

522 practice questions for the PS E-6 advancement exam: emergency leave and leave travel, transaction timeliness, ADSD, the officer OMPF, BCNR, dependent entry approval, twilight tours, military couple co-location and single parent assignment, spouse licensure reimbursement, early release for education, involuntary separation pay, the Armed Forces Retirement Home, extensions beyond EAOS, high year tenure gates and waivers, the Voluntary Sea Duty Program, casualty terms (DUSTWUN, PNOK, PADD, notification, death gratuity), AVAIL reports, the PRISE-R Reserve program, officer resignations, mobilization delays, deferments, exemptions and special cases boards, and the advancement system: FMS factors, PNA and education points, ESVR statuses, effective and limiting dates, E-2 to E-4 time in service, E-7 to E-9 selection boards, Career Intermission Program returns, frocking, declining advancement, the 2-year time-in-grade rule, who is ineligible, and withholding or withdrawing a recommendation, and ID cards for former spouses (20/20/20, 20/20/15, 10/20/10), children, students, incapacitated children, VAP enrollment, legal custody wards, foster, pre-adoptive and stepchildren, and Reserve dependents, and pay: repaying unearned bonuses, hardship duty pay, garnishments, statutory support allotments, the child support levy and involuntary allotments for commercial debts (DD 2653 and 2654), the Savings Deposit Program, TSP and Blended Retirement contributions, flexible spending accounts and CONUS COLA (start and stop dates, ships and home port changes, accessions, custody, dependent visits, deferred travel, early return, missing, confinement, evacuation and Reserve orders), plus Reserve enlisted bonuses, drill (IDT) administration and Reserve special pays. We wrote every one from the public references on the March 2027 PS bibliography, and each answer links the page it comes from. Practice tests are 50 questions; aim for 35.

The real test: Your Navy-wide advancement exam is drawn from your rate's bibliography and comes back as a standard score that counts toward your final multiple; the Navy publishes no pass mark. Our practice test is 50 of our own questions with a 70% target.

Here: 522 questions. Our own practice questions, written from public references on the Navy PS bibliography (MILPERSMAN articles, BUPERSINST 1430.16H and 1750.10E, the DoD FMR and RESPERSMAN on the PS E-6 bibliography). Not Navy exam questions. Free.

What's on the test

10 sample questions

1. Bedside travel is funded for up to how many family members or designated people?

   • A.Four
   • B.Two
   • C.Three
   • D.One
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   C. Three

   PS6-1kqoq · Customer service and personnel processing · MILPERSMAN 1770-010 p. 1

2. How do Sailors advance to E-2, E-3 and E-4?

   • A.By billet-based advancement through MyNavy Assignment only
   • B.By passing a Navy-wide exam
   • C.Automatically on meeting time in service
   • D.By command selection board
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   C. Automatically on meeting time in service

   PS6-1xrid · Education services (advancement) · BUPERSINST 1430.16H p. 16

3. A member doesn't meet the service conditions of a bonus agreement. What is the general rule?

   • A.Repay the full bonus with interest
   • B.Keep the whole bonus if 1 year was served
   • C.Repay the unearned part, unless it was beyond their control
   • D.Repay only if the member is separated for misconduct or misses a drill
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   C. Repay the unearned part, unless it was beyond their control

   PS6-gi9j3 · MILPAY processing · DoD FMR 7A ch. 2 p. 3

4. A member is kept past the end of enlistment. What must be recorded?

   • A.The reason and authority for retention, in the ESR and service record
   • B.Only a note in the division officer's notebook
   • C.Nothing, if the member agreed verbally
   • D.A new enlistment contract signed by the CO and the member, filed in the OMPF
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   A. The reason and authority for retention, in the ESR and service record

   PS6-1izi2 · Reenlistment and extension · MILPERSMAN 1160-050 p. 1

5. An active duty officer who would get an honorable discharge resigns. What type of resignation is it?

   • A.Qualified, handled by PERS-834
   • B.Unqualified, handled by PERS-911D
   • C.Unqualified, handled by PERS-451
   • D.Qualified, handled by the CO
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   C. Unqualified, handled by PERS-451

   PS6-1791s · Separations and retirement · MILPERSMAN 1920-200 p. 2

6. Which Sailor's VSDP request will NOT be approved?

   • A.One holding a nuclear NEC (33XX)
   • B.An E-6 on shore duty within the normal tour
   • C.A Sailor on a DoD area tour overseas
   • D.A Sailor in a Shore Special Program but not a special billet
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   A. One holding a nuclear NEC (33XX)

   PS6-podrn · Travel and transportation · MILPERSMAN 1306-141 p. 2

7. What is the PRISE-R Program?

   • A.An active duty reenlistment bonus program
   • B.A Reserve accession program for Navy and other-Service veterans
   • C.A Reserve retirement points credit program for veterans who left with no drills
   • D.A retraining program for Sailors leaving active duty
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   B. A Reserve accession program for Navy and other-Service veterans

   PS6-giexr · Reserve management and processing · MILPERSMAN 1133-061 p. 1

8. Survivors living in Government quarters may stay how long after a member's death?

   • A.90 days
   • B.365 days
   • C.180 days
   • D.Until the next PCS cycle
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   B. 365 days

   PS6-1jvwu · Customer service and personnel processing · MILPERSMAN 1770-010 p. 1

9. How are E-5 and E-6 NWAE advancement quotas set?

   • A.By NETPDC, from each rating's average exam scores that cycle
   • B.By the command, from its billets
   • C.By each TYCOM, on its own manning
   • D.By CHNAVPERS, mainly on manpower needs
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   D. By CHNAVPERS, mainly on manpower needs

   PS6-b8esc · Education services (advancement) · BUPERSINST 1430.16H p. 16

10. Can a bankruptcy discharge wipe out a bonus repayment debt?

    • A.Not if the order is entered less than 1 year after the member separates
    • B.Yes, always
    • C.Only if under $10,000
    • D.Not if entered less than 5 years after the agreement ends
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    D. Not if entered less than 5 years after the agreement ends

    PS6-bwvv2 · MILPAY processing · DoD FMR 7A ch. 2 p. 4

What the study guide does

• Short study rounds and flip cards.
• A practice test built like the real one: 50 questions, 35 to pass.
• Pass Meter: your chance of passing if you sat the test today, worked out from your own answers.
• An explanation for every answer.