This app is a great tool to promote even if you have limited time. However right now the only way to test on more than one chapter is by Custom Test>select chapters and # of questions. The problem with that is that some of this chapters are fairly big and riddled with A3 sections and the test will try to pick an even amount of questions from each chapter. (Most chapters have more A3 material than any other material). Technically there is nothing wrong with that as it will still be testable information. But even the app recommends X1 (x being the leve of understanding; abc) the most and X3 the least. So you will spend most of your time on “less important material”. If only there was a “Mock Wasp Test Option” where it selected from all the elegible chapters but in a rate that most of the material was extremely important; followed by Very important; and last the Important material. This option would make an already great app the best all around app. Adding a timer to said option would be the cherry on top.
The app itself is amazing in terms of testable material to come in the tests and tracks progress. The only two setbacks I see is that: 1. It won’t save any progress made in the “Create Custom Test”. If you make a 1,000+ questions test and want to rest a bit, if you press “Pause” you just lost all the progress you have made until now and have to restart all over again, discouraging you from doing it again. 2. I have sent numerous emails asking this company how to use the app/material in another devices, for example a PC. I bought this app here at the AppStore and I want to use it on my PC, but I don’t see a way. They promote the “Now On PC....” but it’s just to use the Microsoft Store, get the app and pay for it again. Oh and they have not replied back to any emails I have sent. So there is that.
At first I was excited about this app & didn’t know what the other bad reviews were talking about but it’s true— this app has a lot of problems. There is no easy way to communicate the problems with the developer. There are slides that are duplicated, slides that speak but nothing appears, frequently skipping to other slides without showing the words. Some Air Force info IS NOT up to date. & lastly the speaker only goes at one speed regardless if you changed the voice speed in your settings. This makes it difficult to follow along because of how fast the voice reads & also does not pronounce some words correctly so you find yourself going over the same slide (not in a helpful way) just to understand what the speaker is saying.
Best thing I did was decide to pay and use this app!!!
Bought this app Nov 2021 for the upcoming 22E6 promotion cycle. Put the work in utilizing this app and all the sections offered. It definitely was frustrating at times because the way the app is designed, is that the questions and material is presented in multiple ways even more difficult than what you’ll find on the actual PFE. I’m not kidding I was flying through the PFE portion of my exam and was like it makes sense as to why it seemed so hard to study. It’s all for your benefit!!! Get this app, put in the work and go get what’s yours! 22E6 (T)Sgt Select and a first time tester at that. Thanks to the team of developers involved with this app! Good luck to you all out there.
This app is pretty good. Giving it 5 stars because I wouldn’t change much about it. It updates to the current testing requirements, and has very few issues. Perfect for getting up to E5 or E6. Don’t get me wrong. It has its issues. I’m a little miffed that the ‘voice’ portion reads the apostrophes as “number 39”.. so that’s a little annoying. Studying or listening to it on a car ride and a sentence says something along the lines of “The numbered AF blah blah blah it’s own squadrons.” It doesn’t read like it should, it reads “..blah blah blah it number 39 S own squadrons.” The text is fine, but the voice in the app makes minor errors like that. But again, that’s minor. The questions hit everything and flows pretty well. The fact that it remembers everything you do in the app, has the ability to do missed question tests on its own, option to randomize the questions, it’s a good study partner. 5 out of 5 if going by stars, or 9.9 out of 10 on a real scale, because nothing’s perfect. Try it out. Worth the chump change to buy the app and you don’t have to re-buy anything or have in-app purchases.
I only have on request really. I’m sure a lot of people would like this idea as well. Please add a feature where we can shuffle the flash cards so that we can cover a wider range of questions/sections at one time. For example, on cdc mastery there’s a shuffle feature that’ll allow you to flip through all two hundred something flash cards which contain multiple chapters/sections all at once but in a random order. I hope I’m making sense. To simplify, jumble all the sections together and add a feature where we can shuffle them up to hit a larger variety of information.
So they want to get rid of the missed questions test, prefer people test in smaller chunks and trust the algorithm but users like the specific “missed questions.” I don’t understand why they don’t just utilize the missed questions test more broadly in that case. As it is now, you hit the missed questions test and you only answer what you recently missed, then it disappears until you miss more questions. Just make it routinely test on the users weak answers rather than resetting every time. There’s way too many sections to go over, so that’s probably why people want to specifically focus on things they’re missing rather than going section by section again.
The new update is very helpful with the applicable readable content (AF1 paragraphs) a click away from the study guides and test questions. My only complaint is that some of the questions aren’t worded correctly. There are a few that should say which of these is not the correct answer etc. With the paragraphs I’m able to read and make applicable question notes, which helps. It would be nice to see that’s fixed though.
Overall this app is great. Only rested for stars due to new update and possible bugs with it. On multiple slides in the new study feature, it will not register that I have went over the exact slide and remain blue. It leads to it saying I have completed 50/57 slides on multiple occasions. The only way I have found to fix it is sitting on the slide for over five minutes. There are other slides that have a different shade of green and I am unsure if this means something or if that is also another visual bug. Any response would be greatly appreciated on how to remedy this for everyone else.
I love this app! I made Tech my first time using it. Plus you can’t beat the price. The other apps cost way more and you can only use them for 2 years. Once you pay for this one you have all updates for life. Just study the MKTS and you are golden. Unfortunately, I won’t have to use it again since they took away testing for SNCOs. Please make an app for the SKT portion. I know that would require a lot of man hours, research, and resources but you guys have promotion testing figured out!
The app is good. It’s smart it has all the stuff you need. However it could use some sort of game or something to keep your attention better would be nice. The issue however is the same one as mentioned before. At least for IOS in my experience. It doesn’t matter how you close the app. If you click the done button before you leave the app. If you leave the app any test that is in progress will not be able to be resumed from where you left off. It gives you an error stating “oops there were no questions in the subjects you selected” if they fix that it will be 4 stars because like I said it has nothing to keep your attention.
Overall good study tool. I learn way better from listening by audio but the voice is just terrible. All the other parts of the app are great and I’d still recommend. A more soothing and less robotic janky voice would be awesome. The voice just makes it difficult to listen to for long periods of time without being annoyed by it.
This is the only studying material I used for both E5 & E6 WAPS. Made E5 first time and E6 second, both with just a “promote”. This gives you all the material you need to succeed. Honestly, after both my tests, I wondered if I was “too” fast, but it came easy due to all the material on this app. It’s definitely worth the price tag, don’t even think twice about it! Can’t thank the team behind this enough!
Great app design, extremely user friendly, and has helped immensely with keeping me on track to study. My only complaint is the audio. I adjusted the voice to the recommended speakers but the speed of voice jumbles sentences. If this could be fixed in my phone settings, I need to figure out how. If not, this would be my recommended improvement for the app.
I’ve been using this app to study for promotion for the last 8 weeks and it definitely makes me feel more prepared for the WAPS this cycle. Even though some of the hints for remembering things seem super random, they definitely help you remember the material. Good job with the functionality and easy to navigate interface. I also like the MKTS option to study topics of more importance. Excellent app and I have already recommended to my colleagues at work. Keep it up!
Last year I bought this app but didn’t really put much time into studying and missed Tech by 2 points. This year I put in about 2 solid months of studying prior to my test date using strictly this PROmote App and I just made Tech by 13 points! I felt the information was relevant and current with what was on the test so I strongly recommend this investment.
I love this app so far! I will be testing for E6 real soon and everything’s been going good with the app. The only thing I’d suggest is making it compatible with the Apple Pencil for note taking. I understand that it allows you to type notes but for some people it’d add to the experience if the user was able to write notes instead of typing them. Other than that this app is amazing and seems like the developers take the time to continuously update!
All and all, a great app for studying! I think an improvement would be to creat a study plan based on when your test date is. For example: Teat date is 1 March 2023, the app would generate a recommended reading, slide deck, and exam questions based on how many days you have until your test date to bring you through all the material. I think this could really benefit people when studying.
I wouldn’t have made E-7 without this app. I blew the PDG out of the water. I say it was my second time but actually it was my first, due to the fact that I didn’t crack a book the first year because of “mandatory” EPME. Thank you guys for putting this app together. I’ll definitely be using it in two years when it comes time for me to test for SMSgt!
The app and all they ways to study are great. I would have given a complete 5 star if only the audio studying was just a little bit better. The very generic monotone computer voice just isn’t great. It would be so much better is their was some way to get a person to read the information like a audio book that would be way better.
Very useful and practical as well. Only minor mistakes here and there but none are misleading in any way. Would love the option to take a test over all chapters at once instead of just individual chapters. Update: August 2018. The latest update on my phone allows me to create a custom test and cover all chapters. For me the App is now ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️!
Used this when I was TDY. I made tech this year and couldn’t be happier. This is a good tool. Obviously you have your phone all the time looking at Facebook and whatnot. Use this whenever you want to study but don’t want to pull the big paper PDG out. For real you can make it if you fry.
Love the app but i have a long commute and would like to listen to the app read the material, but the voice they have is horrid and extremely difficult to listen to, its also very choppy and will cut off before the section actually ends. Its stuck in 2006. Need to do better with the voice section.
I like the app the material is great but seems like it’s just more work trying to memorize the helpful hints to help you memorize the answers. At that point your not really learning just memorizing but hey at the end of the day the information is getting in. I could just do with out these helpful hints or atleast make them helpful
Thank you for your amazing app! Thanks to PROmote, my wife and I have been selected for promotion. I love the study guide material and the exams. Before my wife recommended this app, I had purchased the PDG Gold and it was straight garbage. I didn’t retain a thing and it was a struggle. With PROmote, it just seemed to be so easy. Glad she recommended it! Thanks again! Highly, highly recommend PROmote!!
Made 21E5 and 24E6 using ONLY this app. Scored 85 PFE both times testing. If you put in the work to study and take advantage of all the tools this app has, you will have a strong chance of promoting. No one is going to hand it to you, take the time and work for it.
The app crashed every time I tried to open it. as it was recommended by a friend of mine since he made staff with it his first time I wanted to give the benefit of the doubt. I emailed the app creators, they had a very fast response time, and looked right into it. I really appreciate it and am anxious to get to work on studying
I love this app for studying. I’ve tried others but I feel I retain more using this app. The only critique I have, is I wish the audio was more human like. It’s really hard to listen to and retain what is being said when you are listening to a horrible choppy robotic voice. My mind wants to glaze over when hearing it.
I studied on my own an struggled my first testing cycle. That’s when a friend told me about this app, and I used it to study for the following years test. Needless to say, I was promoted! You can literally study any time or place, no matter if you do or do not have an online connection! This app is amazing, I really recommend it! #NoLongerE4Mafia
Great app overall, I know that the app has been updated for 24E6, but I see some outdated information in some of the sections, specifically referring to EPRs and bullet writing when the air force has shifted to EPBs in narrative format, has the AFH not been updated yet to reflect these changes?
I really love this app. I do have a question is there a way to make it where if I study on my phone that what I studied and tested over transfers over to my IPad or computer? Sometimes I study on my IPad but would like to pick up where I left off on my phone if I’m out and about.
I’m a visual learner but reading this gets boring real quick. I find that having the audio voice on and reading along helps me out much better but for the love of god fix the AUDIO VOICE. It would make studying x10 better if it had a noice flowing voice and not the monstrosity of a voice over.
I have purchased this app years ago as a senior airman and have made both staff and tech with it. The app updates itself every year to ensure the study guides are correct. If it wasn’t for this app, I would not have made Tech this year!
I would highly recommend this app for anyone trying to make the next rank. I like the fact that you get updates at no additional charge. It also has audio and allows you to sort by SKT importance which really helps a lot .
Great app and great practice tests. Definitely helps to have audio playing on my way to and from work and at work when I can. I just can’t control the audio at all remotely i.e. by my AirPods, by Bluetooth, or by control center in my phone. I HAVE to go to the app to pause, play, or skip. The audio doesn’t stop for ringtones, music, calls, or anything else.
I bought this app a few years ago for E-5. And made it my first time. I think I made a 94. I used it again for 2020 E-6. Made it first time again!! Scored 26 pts over the cutoff without any promotion statement. Buy the app and apply yourself. I only studied for 3 weeks a few hours a day.
Message to the creators, I bought this app through the apple app store and now I’m being forced to purchase again through google play after i got my new phone. I was wondering if theres a way to restore purchase so I’m not having to buy again. Thank you for your guys help
The app is good with some glitches that can be easily resolved, example unable to continue or return from where you left. The major issue is the line of question needs to be updated. MKTS priorities list is good but the questions were never revised. Example E7 MKTS Airman’s Creed questions should not be the same for E8.
Makes it easy to study. Maybe you could add some simple jeopardy style or matching games with sound effects for those of us who find it hard to study by flash cards and quizzes. App still works great but if you’re still looking to improve and stimulate the mind, these are things other apps have done.
I’ve purchased other promotion apps - ones that require you to spend $80 every two years for their update - and this one knocks them out of the water. It’s aesthetically pleasing, easy to use, and lets you study based on MKTS priority. I’ve had no issues with it. Plus, it’s only $25 with lifetime updates. I’ve found that I’ve been more motivated to use this one over other study apps. I won’t bash McMillan for their way overpriced and poorly designed app. I’ll just say that I highly recommend this one.
Overall the app is great, formulates great tests but I feel that there should be links the the PDG for questions so that you can read the source yourself. Yes I know you can go look it up yourself but a quick link in the app would make it a nice one stop shop so to speak. I would recommend this to a friend btw.
A few little glitches here and there. Sometimes I didn’t save where I had studied last, but a minor inconvenience. Helped me make Master this time around by letting me study in sections and test at my own pace vs reading a whole PDF file the AF provides.
Section 13B is not on the ADTC tab of the studying or testing portion. Update since I received a response: I’m stating that on the app when I try and study I do not see section 13B on the ADTC Tab when I have it under AFH 1 for reviewing or testing. I’m not saying it needs to be removed. I stating that I should be able to see in different sections of the app not just one
I went through all the tests and quizzes in this app for a couple of months leading up to testing for MSgt. Without even reading the PDG and only doing the questions I ended up getting an 89 on the PFE. If you’re looking for a great study tool buy this app and don’t waste your time or money on PDG gold.
The priorities and the set up is fantastic in this app, however it desperately needs a flash card function. Otherwise you read the same slide question with answer countless times. Makes learning extremely boring and difficult
This app is truly amazing, I only used this app to study and I got over a 90 on my WAPS test. Even going into the test there was not one question that I didn’t at least recognize a little bit. I definitely recommend getting this app to study.
The only reason I gave it 4 stars is because of the way the questions are read when you listen to them. It is hard to separate the question from the answer and it gets confusing. If the developer could change that, the app would be perfect.
100% bought it because of the App Developers responses to negative reviews. I would say it was well worth it. I made E6 this year on my first try, and used this app to study for it. Thank you for developing an effective app, please keep being a savage.
I always recommend this to my coworkers. This app will get you promoted and it’s way better than spending 3X as much on PDG gold!!! Also this app constantly updates whenever their is a change. If you want to get promoted. BRO GET THIS APP.!! 🗣🗣🗣
I love this app and I appreciate the free upgrades. I don’t understand why they decided to work the study option in the question answer format. I only want questions and answers when taking a test! The study option should be in a factual note format taken from the AFH. Edit-definitely worth a five once that edit is made
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