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Military Exam Prep

Ran Chen, EA, CFP®

Military Exam Prep is a free, daily podcast by OpenExamPrep covering the most in-demand military aptitude, classification, and advancement exams — including the ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery), AFCT, PiCAT, AFOQT (Air Force Officer Qualifying Test), OAR (Officer Aptitude Rating), ASTB-E (Aviation Selection Test Battery), SIFT (Selection Instrument for Flight Training), DLAB and DLPT (Defense Language tests), EDPT, NAPT, DoD Cyber Test, Air Force PFE, Navy NWAE, Coast Guard SWE,

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03:19

Navy OAR Exam Prep 45, Newton Laws Force Mass and...

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/09/14

This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.In this episode you will learn: - That net force is zero for any object that is either at rest or moving at a constant velocity. - How to apply the core formula F=ma to solve for force, mass, or

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03:58

Navy OAR Exam Prep 44, Mechanical Units Vectors and...

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/09/13

This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.In this episode you will learn: - How to use units and dimensional analysis to quickly eliminate incorrect answer choices on the OAR. - The critical difference between scalar quantities like speed

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04:03

Navy OAR Exam Prep 43, Mixed OAR Reading Review

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/09/12

This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.In this episode you will learn: - How to differentiate between a passage's main idea and a supporting detail, avoiding 'partial truth' traps. - The crucial difference between a supported inference

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03:16

Navy OAR Exam Prep 42, Reading Timing and Adaptive...

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/09/11

This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.In this episode you will learn: - How to balance careful reading with the OAR's 90-second-per-question time limit. - A strategic approach for deciding when to reread a passage versus trusting your

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03:06

Navy OAR Exam Prep 41, Dense Technical Passages

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/09/10

This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.In this episode you will learn: - That the OAR tests your ability to dissect supplied text, not your prior technical knowledge. - How to break down dense passages into four key components:

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03:49

Navy OAR Exam Prep 40, Comparing Claims and...

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/09/09

This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.In this episode you will learn: - How to deconstruct a passage into its core components: the central claim, the supporting evidence, and the logical reasoning. - To identify new information that

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03:14

Navy OAR Exam Prep 39, Fact Opinion Assumption and...

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/09/08

This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams. In this episode you will learn: - A fact is a specific, verifiable statement, like a weapon's muzzle velocity. - An opinion is a subjective judgment, often using superlative words like "greatest" or

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03:12

Navy OAR Exam Prep 38, Passage Structure and...

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/09/07

This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.In this episode you will learn: - To identify the five common passage structures on the OAR: chronology, cause and effect, problem-solution, comparison, and argument. - How transition words function

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03:28

Navy OAR Exam Prep 37, Vocabulary in Context

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/09/06

This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.In this episode you will learn: - How to use definition, restatement, and contrast clues to infer a word's meaning. - The method for identifying example clues and using a passage's overall logic. -

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03:38

Navy OAR Exam Prep 36, Author Purpose Tone and Point...

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/09/05

This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.In this episode you will learn: - To distinguish between the four main author purposes tested on the OAR: explaining, arguing, comparing, and critiquing. - How specific word choice, or diction,

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03:38

Navy OAR Exam Prep 35, Inference and Logical Conclusions

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/09/04

This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.In this episode you will learn: - The critical difference between a necessary conclusion (what must be true) and plausible speculation (what could be true) on the OAR. - How to dissect an exam-style

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03:10

Navy OAR Exam Prep 34, Supporting Details and Evidence

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/09/03

This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.In this episode you will learn: - How to locate explicit facts and paraphrased evidence within OAR reading passages. - A strategy to match every answer choice to a specific, defensible part of the

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03:09

Navy OAR Exam Prep 33, Main Idea and Central Purpose

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/09/02

This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.In this episode you will learn: - How to distinguish the main idea from supporting details in OAR reading passages. - A method for identifying answer choices that are deliberately too broad or too

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03:15

Navy OAR Exam Prep 32, Reading Comprehension Format...

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/09/01

This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams. In this episode you will learn: - The OAR Reading Comprehension test is computer-adaptive, tailoring question difficulty to your performance. - Every correct answer must be directly supported by

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04:16

Navy OAR Exam Prep 31, Mixed OAR Math Skills Review

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/08/31

This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams. In this episode you will learn: - How to correctly set up and solve combined rate problems involving opposing forces. - To avoid common traps in multi-step algebra questions by identifying the final

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02:46

Navy OAR Exam Prep 30, Math Timing and Adaptive...

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/08/30

This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams. In this episode you will learn: - That the OAR Math Skills Test is a Computer Adaptive Test (CAT), where question difficulty changes based on your answers. - Why increasingly difficult questions are

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03:47

Navy OAR Exam Prep 29, Estimation Mental Math and...

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/08/29

This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.In this episode you will learn: - To use rounding and compatible numbers to simplify complex calculations into manageable mental math problems on the OAR. - How to leverage fraction benchmarks like

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03:08

Navy OAR Exam Prep 28, Sequences Patterns and Number...

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/08/28

This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.In this episode you will learn: - How to distinguish between arithmetic sequences (common difference) and geometric sequences (common ratio). - A method for using finite differences to solve complex

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04:48

Navy OAR Exam Prep 27, Interest Profit and Financial...

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/08/27

This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.In this episode you will learn: - To differentiate between simple interest (calculated on principal only) and compound interest (calculated on principal plus accumulated interest). - How to correctly

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04:58

Navy OAR Exam Prep 26, Work Mixture and Shared-Task...

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/08/26

This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.In this episode you will learn: - How to solve shared-task problems by combining the individual work rates of each contributor. - The correct method for handling work problems involving a negative

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