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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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03:50

Navy OAR Exam Prep 25, Distance Rate Time and...

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2026/08/25

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 calculate relative speed, add the rates for objects moving in opposite directions and subtract for objects moving in the same direction. - A vessel's true speed

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03:17

Navy OAR Exam Prep 24, Translating Word Problems into...

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2026/08/24

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 five-step systematic process (V-T-E-S-C) for translating any word problem into a solvable equation. - How to identify keywords in a problem that directly translate

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03:25

Navy OAR Exam Prep 23, Statistics Tables and Data...

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2026/08/23

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 mean (the average), median (the middle value), and mode (the most frequent value). - To always scrutinize chart labels, units, and

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03:34

Navy OAR Exam Prep 22, Probability Counting and...

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2026/08/22

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 crucial difference between permutations (order matters) and combinations (order doesn't matter) for OAR counting problems. - How to use the complement rule as a

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03:47

Navy OAR Exam Prep 21, Area Surface Area and Volume

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/08/21

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 whether a question is asking for perimeter (boundary), area (surface coverage), or volume (contained capacity). - The importance of memorizing key

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03:52

Navy OAR Exam Prep 20, Circles Polygons and...

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2026/08/20

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 circle area and circumference formulas and avoid the common diameter-radius trap. - The critical difference between a central angle and an

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03:57

Navy OAR Exam Prep 19, Angles Triangles and the...

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/08/19

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: - All interior angles in a triangle sum to 180 degrees, a foundational rule for solving for missing angles. - The Pythagorean theorem (a² + b² = c²) applies only to

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04:00

Navy OAR Exam Prep 18, Functions Graphs and Variation

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/08/18

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 evaluate function notation, especially with negative inputs, a common OAR trap. - A step-by-step method to find the slope and y-intercept for a linear

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02:54

Navy OAR Exam Prep 17, Factoring and Quadratic Equations

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/08/17

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 quickly identify quadratic equation types: difference of squares, simple trinomials, or complex trinomials. - How the zero-product property is the key to finding

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02:40

Navy OAR Exam Prep 16, Exponents Radicals and...

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/08/16

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 apply the product and quotient rules to simplify complex exponential expressions quickly. - That a negative exponent means taking the reciprocal, and a

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03:18

Navy OAR Exam Prep 15, Inequalities and Absolute Value

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/08/15

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 most critical rule: when to flip the inequality sign to avoid common exam traps. - How to correctly solve compound inequalities by applying operations to all

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04:15

Navy OAR Exam Prep 14, Systems of Equations

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/08/14

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: - How to quickly decide whether to use the substitution or elimination method on the timed OAR Math Skills Test. - A step-by-step process for solving a system using

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03:54

Navy OAR Exam Prep 13, Linear Equations and...

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/08/13

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 isolate variables in one-step and multi-step linear equations using inverse operations. - The method for rearranging literal equations, or formulas with

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03:34

Navy OAR Exam Prep 12, Algebraic Expressions and...

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/08/12

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 translate verbal phrases, especially tricky ones like "less than," into correct algebraic expressions. - The most common exam trap involving the distributive

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03:42

Navy OAR Exam Prep 11, Averages Weighted Means and...

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/08/11

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: - That combined average, weighted mean, and mixture problems all follow the same principle: never average the averages. - How to set up weighted average calculations

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02:40

Navy OAR Exam Prep 10, Rates Work and Combined...

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2026/08/10

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: - How to calculate an individual's work rate as the reciprocal of the time taken (Rate = 1/Time). - Why you must always add individual work rates, not the times, to

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03:24

Navy OAR Exam Prep 09, Ratios Proportions and Scaling

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/08/09

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 correctly set up and solve proportions using cross-multiplication for OAR-style word problems. - The critical difference between direct and inverse

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02:58

Navy OAR Exam Prep 08, Decimals Percentages and...

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/08/08

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: - How to quickly convert between decimals, fractions, and percentages by moving the decimal point. - The method for solving reverse-percent problems to find the

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03:18

Navy OAR Exam Prep 07, Whole Numbers Fractions and...

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/08/07

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 master PEMDAS, you must apply the left-to-right rule for multiplication/division and addition/subtraction pairs. - When adding or subtracting fractions, always

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02:45

Navy OAR Exam Prep 06, Test Day Rules Pacing and No...

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/08/06

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: - The OAR is a computer-adaptive test, meaning you cannot skip questions or return to change your answers. - Personal calculators and all electronic devices are

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