You need DD Form 1572, and this page gives you the blank plus the steps for handling it. Start with what the form does: Test Log DANTES and Others. Its official title is DD Form 1572, Test Log - Dantes and Others, October 2009.
Then look at the edition date: not stated, publisher status not stated. After that, ask whether the form covers your situation. It almost certainly does regardless of your branch — DD forms run Department-wide rather than through a single service.
Then settle the schedule. You are working under not stated, with not stated responsible for the document, and your organization layers its own deadlines on that. Ask before you assume a date.
Last in this stage, choose your method: complete it on screen, or print the blank form and fill it out in pen. The sections below take each route step by step.
Begin at the top and move down. Enter your identifying data first, then the body of the form, then the signature block. The sequence is printed in that order because entries below frequently follow from entries above.
Check the edition before you type a word. The date appears on the face of the form; it should read not stated. When it does not, discard the file and take a fresh copy from this page. Department-level revisions replace the blank across all services simultaneously, which means an old printout can be out of step everywhere.
For questions about a specific entry, check the form's own instructions, and if that does not settle it, open not stated. The directive controls where they differ.
Download the form
Begin by choosing a file. Available here: PDF. Plan for 2 pages and about 200 entries.
Take the pdf if you are unsure. Then check which kind you have: if the boxes highlight when you click them, you have a fillable pdf and can type straight into it, and your entries save with the file. If nothing highlights, you have a printable pdf — send it to a printer and use black ink.
Go with the typed route whenever the choice is yours. Consider what happens after you submit: the copy gets scanned, forwarded and filed, and each pass costs handwriting some legibility. Block letters help if you are stuck with a pen.
What the form asks for
- 1. Organization.
- 2. Military address (include zip code).
- 3. Name of DANTES test control officer.
- 4. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no separators).
- 5. Test issued. a. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day), line 1.
- b. Time.
- 6. Examinee. a. Name (print).
- b. Signature.
- c. Pay grade.
- d. Date of birth (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- e. Unit name.
- f. Unit phone.
- 7. Test code number or test serial number.
- 8. Type of test. Press space bar to mark X in first box if CLEP general, second box if CLEP subject, third box if DSST, fourth box if SAT, fifth box if GED, sixth box if ECI, or seventh box if other.
- 9. Page check before testing.
- 10. Time test returned.
- 11. Page check after testing.
- 12. Date test and/or TAS mailed for scoring (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 13. Examiner's signature.
- 5.a. Test Date, line 2.
- b. Time.
- 6. a. Examinee Name (print).
- b. Signature.
- c. Pay grade.
With the form finished, route it to the office named in not stated or in your organization's own instruction. Keep a copy first. People rarely regret having one and frequently regret not having one.
If the form points you to another document, you can find it by number alone. DD numbering runs across the whole Department, so you do not need to work out which service issued it — one number, one form, everywhere.
Watch out for one trap here. If your instructions cite a DA form as well, do not assume the numbers are connected. DA numbering belongs to the Army alone; DD numbering belongs to the Department and is administered by not stated or another Department office. The same number in each system means two unrelated forms, so read the prefix before you download.
Do not archive this file and reuse it in a year. Forms are reissued as directives are revised, as data requirements shift, and as statutory notice text is amended. Your protection is simple: download fresh each time and confirm the edition date.
Before you go, note what is not covered here. You have the blank form and instructions for completing it; you do not have legal guidance, and no statement on this page determines what any office will do with your submission. Direct those questions to not stated, to the personnel office that serves you, or to the office designated in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1572?
- DD Form 1572, Test Log - Dantes and Others, October 2009
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?