Ran Chen, EA, CFP®

Military Exam Prep

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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, and Army Promotion Board. Each 5-minute episode breaks down one exam topic with concrete examples,...

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Ran Chen, EA, CFP®

Episodes

[ASVAB] 38, Assembling Objects: Track Connections and Rotations 06.11.2026 4:09

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 track labeled connection points to join geometric shape...

[ASVAB] 37, Shop Information: Choose and Measure with the Right Tool 05.11.2026 4:04

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 distinguish common hand tools including wrenches, plier...

[ASVAB] 36, Auto Systems: Cooling, Lubrication, Brakes and Charging 04.11.2026 4:12

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 the starter, battery, and alternator share electrical duti...

[ASVAB] 35, Auto Information: How an Engine Makes Power 03.11.2026 4:34

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 four-stroke gasoline engine cycle including intake, compre...

[ASVAB] 34, Fluids, Pressure, Heat and Waves 02.11.2026 4:20

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 pressure is calculated as force divided by surface area. -...

[ASVAB] 33, Levers, Pulleys and Gears 01.11.2026 4:07

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: - How torque and lever equilibrium establish force-distance trad...

[ASVAB] 32, Forces, Motion, Work and Power 31.10.2026 3:53

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 net force, mass, and acceleration interact under Newton's...

[ASVAB] 31, Electronic Components, Magnetism and Signals 30.10.2026 4:36

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: - Distinguish between conductors and insulators and explain one-...

[ASVAB] 30, Series and Parallel Circuits, Power and Protection 29.10.2026 4:17

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: * How single-path series circuits contrast with branching parall...

[ASVAB] 29, Electricity: Voltage, Current and Resistance 28.10.2026 4:06

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: • Definitions of electric charge, current, potential difference,...

[ASVAB] 28, Earth, Weather and the Solar System 27.10.2026 4:37

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 physical distinction between short-term weather and long-t...

[ASVAB] 27, Matter, Atoms and Chemical Change 26.10.2026 4:03

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: • Distinction between atoms, elements, compounds, and mixtures •...

[ASVAB] 26, Ecology and the Flow of Energy 25.10.2026 4:09

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 producers, consumers, and decomposers interact within ecol...

[ASVAB] 25, Life Science: Cells, Systems and Inheritance 24.10.2026 4:19

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: - Core differences between plant and animal cell structures - Ho...

[ASVAB] 24, Purpose, Structure and Verbal Review 23.10.2026 4:17

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: - How to classify short passage structures into explain, compare...

[ASVAB] 23, Inference: What the Passage Actually Supports 22.10.2026 4:19

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 separate justified inferences from unsupported predicti...

[ASVAB] 22, Find Details and Follow Instructions 21.10.2026 3:51

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, sequence, and conditions in Para...

[ASVAB] 21, Paragraph Comprehension: Find the Main Idea 20.10.2026 4:11

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 identify the main idea of a short reading passage using...

[ASVAB] 20, Precision, Tone and Easily Confused Words 19.10.2026 4:37

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 vocabulary pairs that share broad meanings...

[ASVAB] 19, Context Clues: Contrast, Examples and Restatement 18.10.2026 3:57

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 analyze sentence structure to infer word meanings using...

[ASVAB] 18, Use Prefixes and Roots as Clues 17.10.2026 3:57

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: - Key prefixes such as pre, inter, and trans for vocabulary deco...

[ASVAB] 17, Word Knowledge: Find the Closest Meaning 16.10.2026 4:35

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 the substitution method to identify the closest syn...

[ASVAB] 16, Perimeter, Area and Volume 15.10.2026 3:56

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: - Difference between boundary perimeter, flat area, and spatial...

[ASVAB] 15, Angles, Triangles and the Coordinate Plane 14.10.2026 3:34

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: • Straight-line and interior triangle angle relationships summin...

[ASVAB] 14, Exponents, Roots and Factoring 13.10.2026 3:59

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: - Rules for multiplying, dividing, and evaluating integer powers...