How it works
A study program shaped like a real exam cycle — not a textbook dump.
Three moves: tell us who you are, study from the pubs that matter, and ask questions when you get stuck. Everything else is noise we cut.
1. Tell us your rate and paygrade
Your exam is not the same as the sailor next to you. An ET2 and an HM3 are not reading the same stack. We lock scope to the Bibliography for your rating and level so you are never "studying the Navy" in the abstract.
2. Study from the actual publications
We pull from the public pubs your BIB points at — not a mystery question bank written by someone who never stood your watch. When you get an answer, you get a citation. Open the pub. Confirm it. Own it.
3. Ask like a human, get answers like a mentor
Stuck on a concept at 0100? Ask in plain language. The tutor stays inside your scoped material and shows its work. That is the difference between "vibes-based studying" and walking into the exam room with receipts.
What Makinrate is not
Not a dump of every NAVEDTRA PDF. Not a guarantee you will select — no honest product can promise that. Not an official Navy system. We are a civilian study tool that takes the Bibliography seriously so you can too.
Ready when you are.
Five minutes to set your profile. Your first study session can start tonight.