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|  05-05-2013, 11:39 PM | #1 | 
| **Active Duty**  Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: NAS Lemoore 
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			If you don't take the STAR Reenlistment, is it possible to miss your first E-5 exam due to still being in school? Then again, sounds like it'd be very rare to make it your first few tests. Definitely would need a good eval.
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|  05-06-2013, 01:34 AM | #2 | 
| Senior Member  Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Boston, MA 
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			No, you take your E-5 exam even if you are still in school once you have time in rate. Virtually no one advances while in school and on average it takes 5-6 exam cycles (or more) to advance off the test without STAR. (that's 2-3 years worth of tests, there's one exam every 6 months)
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|  05-06-2013, 04:05 AM | #3 | 
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			Everyone in the navy takes the exam on the same day.  So if you're deployed, or home, or wherever, you still take it.
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