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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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03:51

[ASVAB] 05, Decimals, Place Value and Estimation

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/10/04

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: - How to read decimal place values and stack decimal points for addition. - Why multiplying positive decimals by values less than one yields a smaller product. - How

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04:02

[ASVAB] 04, Fractions Without a Calculator

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/10/03

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 find common denominators and convert fractions to equivalent forms without a calculator. - Step-by-step addition of fractions using the worked example of

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04:09

[ASVAB] 03, Signed Numbers and the Order of Operations

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/10/02

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 number-line movement and double negatives govern signed addition and subtraction. • How to apply sign rules for multiplication and evaluate equal-precedence

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03:53

[ASVAB] 02, Build a Study Routine for Your Test Format

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/10/01

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: - How to construct a diagnostic, practice, error-log, and retest study cycle - The structural differences between adaptive CAT-ASVAB and fixed-form paper tests - Why

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04:31

[ASVAB] 01, How the AFQT and ASVAB Line Scores Fit...

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/09/30

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: - The distinction between individual ASVAB subtest standard scores, the AFQT percentile rank, and service-specific line scores. - How the AFQT score is derived from

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02:46

Navy OAR Exam Prep 60, Final Review and Test-Day...

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/09/29

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 master the no-calculator Math Skills Test using estimation and reasonableness checks. - How to manage the OAR's computer-adaptive format, where you cannot return

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03:22

Navy OAR Exam Prep 59, Mixed OAR Mechanical...

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/09/28

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 quickly determine the direction of rotation for any gear in a simple gear train. - A simple method to calculate the mechanical advantage of a pulley system by

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03:09

Navy OAR Exam Prep 58, Waves Sound Light and Basic...

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/09/27

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: - That frequency and wavelength are inversely proportional when wave speed is constant, a key concept for proportional reasoning questions. - Why sound travels fastest

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03:21

Navy OAR Exam Prep 57, Magnetism Electromagnets...

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/09/26

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: - The fundamental principle of energy conversion that distinguishes electric motors from generators. - How to apply the Right-Hand Rule to determine the direction of a

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04:01

Navy OAR Exam Prep 56, Series Parallel Circuits and...

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/09/25

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: - How to calculate total resistance for series circuits by summing resistances and for parallel circuits using the reciprocal formula. - The distinct behaviors of

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03:39

Navy OAR Exam Prep 55, Electricity Voltage Current...

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/09/24

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: - The fundamental relationship between voltage, current, and resistance as defined by Ohm's Law (V=IR). - How the Navy OAR's Mechanical Comprehension section tests

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03:43

Navy OAR Exam Prep 54, Heat Temperature and...

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/09/23

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: - To differentiate Temperature (average molecular kinetic energy) from Heat (energy transferred between objects). - The three modes of heat transfer: Conduction

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04:05

Navy OAR Exam Prep 53, Hydraulics and Pascal Principle

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/09/22

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: - Pascal's principle states that pressure in an enclosed fluid is constant, leading to the formula F₁/A₁ = F₂/A₂. - How to calculate force multiplication in hydraulic

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03:16

Navy OAR Exam Prep 52, Fluid Pressure Density and...

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/09/21

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: - Pressure is force concentrated over an area; a smaller area results in greater pressure for the same force. - An object's relative density (specific gravity)

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02:57

Navy OAR Exam Prep 51, Torque Equilibrium and Center...

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/09/20

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: - Rotational equilibrium is achieved when the sum of clockwise torques equals the sum of counter-clockwise torques. - Torque is calculated by multiplying the force by

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03:03

Navy OAR Exam Prep 50, Gears Belts Wheels and...

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/09/19

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: - How to quickly determine the final gear's rotation direction in any gear train. - The function of an idler gear and why it's a common distractor on the OAR exam. -

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02:48

Navy OAR Exam Prep 49, Levers Pulleys and Mechanical...

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/09/18

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: - Master the three classes of levers using the 'FLE 123' mnemonic to quickly identify the fulcrum, load, and effort arrangement. - Understand that the Ideal Mechanical

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03:38

Navy OAR Exam Prep 48, Speed Velocity Acceleration...

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/09/17

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: - The critical difference between scalar (distance, speed) and vector (displacement, velocity) quantities and how it's tested. - On a position-time graph, the slope of

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03:36

Navy OAR Exam Prep 47, Momentum Impulse and Collisions

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/09/16

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: - Momentum (p=mv) is a vector quantity, meaning its direction is a critical component in exam problems. - Impulse is defined as the change in momentum (Δp) and is

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03:18

Navy OAR Exam Prep 46, Work Energy Power and Efficiency

Military Exam Prep ·

2026/09/15

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: - Work is force applied over a distance and is measured in Joules; no movement means no work is done. - Energy is the capacity to do work, existing as potential

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