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Veterans' Examination Credit

Twenty per cent of your total examination grade added as credit — a proportional preference, not a handful of points, and the largest in this corpus.

Verified August 18, 2026

What this benefit is

Twenty per cent of your total examination grade added as credit — a proportional preference, not a handful of points, and the largest in this corpus.

What it's worth: Twenty per cent of your total examination grade, added as credit

  • The credit is a proportion of your grade, so its size depends on how well you score — twenty per cent of 80 is sixteen points, twenty per cent of 90 is eighteen.
  • A reserve component member whose only service was initial entry-level training receives fifteen per cent instead of twenty.

Who is entitled to it

  • You were honorably discharged, or transferred to a reserve component with evidence of satisfactory service.
  • You are a resident of Ohio.
  • You are in Ohio.

Not sure whether that describes you?

Answer a few questions about this benefit specifically — we only ask what this one actually depends on, and we stop as soon as we know.

How to claim it

  1. 1File your certificate of service or discharge with the director before you sit the examination. Proof supplied afterwards is the common way this credit is lost.
  2. 2Do not treat the credit as a safety margin. It is only added if you reach the passing grade without it.
  3. 3If you are looking for an extra tier because you are disabled, there is not one in Ohio — the twenty per cent is the whole of it, and it is already the largest in this corpus.
Form
Certificate of service or discharge
File with
The examining authority, BEFORE you sit the examination
Documents you will need
dd214
No renewal
Once granted it does not need renewing.
CorrectionThis is a PROPORTIONAL credit, not points. Twenty per cent of the total grade is worth several times the five or ten points other states add, and a veteran who reads "veterans preference" and pictures a few points will undervalue it badly.
CorrectionThere is no larger credit for a disabled veteran. Every other state in this corpus has a disability tier; Ohio does not, and the twenty per cent applies regardless of rating.
Worth knowingThe credit cannot rescue a failing score — the statute adds it only if you reach the minimum passing grade without counting it. It changes your rank, never whether you passed.
Worth knowingOhio residence is required. The other employment-preference records in this corpus do not require residence in the state, so a veteran applying across a state line should not assume this one travels.
Known gapO.R.C. §124.26 then gives veterans priority in rank over non-veterans with an equal rating on the eligible list. We could not read §124.26 itself and so publish the credit without modelling that tie-break.

Sources

  • authority · statuteO.R.C. §124.23 — veterans’ examination credit. Cited without a link: no state host serves this section to us (see notes).

Why only one source type: codes.ohio.gov refuses the connection outright — to a fetch and to a real browser alike — as it has intermittently throughout this project, so the section itself is unread on a state host. No administering-agency page substitutes: the Department of Administrative Services publishes nothing on the credit, and the Department of Veterans Services’ benefits guide has an employment chapter that does not mention it. Rather than leave a commercial reproduction standing as this record’s authority, the citation is published without a link and the gap is named.

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