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

AFOQT Exam Prep 49, Energy and Work — Kinetic, Potential, Conservation 16.06.2026 3:35

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: - Kinetic energy (KE = ½mv²) is the energy of motion and increas...

AFOQT Exam Prep 48, Physical Science — Newton's Three Laws 15.06.2026 3:37

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: - Newton's First Law (Inertia) is tested conceptually, often inv...

AFOQT Exam Prep 47, SDI Strategy — Honest, Use Full Range, Don't Game 14.06.2026 3:24

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: - That the AFOQT Self-Description Inventory (SDI) is a 240-quest...

AFOQT Exam Prep 46, SDI Validity Scales and Faking Detection 13.06.2026 2:47

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: - What the AFOQT SDI validity scales are designed to measure. -...

AFOQT Exam Prep 45, Self-Description Inventory — What It Measures 12.06.2026 3:24

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: - That the Self-Description Inventory (SDI) is a 240-item, 45-mi...

AFOQT Exam Prep 44, SJT Common Traps — Doing Nothing vs Going Nuclear 11.06.2026 2:35

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: - That the AFOQT SJT requires you to identify both the most and...

AFOQT Exam Prep 43, SJT Lieutenant-Level Perspective 10.06.2026 3:54

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 AFOQT SJT evaluates your judgment from the perspective of...

AFOQT Exam Prep 42, SJT Strategy — Air Force Core Values Lens 09.06.2026 0:22

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: - To analyze every AFOQT SJT question through the lens of the th...

AFOQT Exam Prep 41, The Situational Judgment Test (SJT) Format 08.06.2026 3:12

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: - The AFOQT SJT requires you to select both the MOST and LEAST e...

AFOQT Exam Prep 40, Reading Comp Pacing — 91 Seconds Per Item 07.06.2026 2:31

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: - To master the average pace of 91 seconds per question for the...

AFOQT Exam Prep 39, Vocabulary-in-Context Questions 06.06.2026 3:15

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: - Why AFOQT Vocabulary-in-Context questions require sentence ana...

AFOQT Exam Prep 38, Inference Questions — Supported vs Outside Knowledge 05.06.2026 3:12

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: - An inference is a conclusion supported by textual evidence, no...

AFOQT Exam Prep 37, Main-Idea vs Detail Questions 04.06.2026 3:35

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 identify signal words for main-idea questions like 'pri...

AFOQT Exam Prep 36, AFOQT Reading Comp Anatomy — 5-10 Line Passages 03.06.2026 3:16

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: - The critical AFOQT strategy of reading the question *before* r...

AFOQT Exam Prep 35, Trigonometry — SOHCAHTOA and Special Triangles 02.06.2026 2:37

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 apply the SOHCAHTOA mnemonic to solve AFOQT trigonometr...

AFOQT Exam Prep 34, Geometry — Quadrilaterals and 3D Solids 01.06.2026 3:01

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: - To distinguish between area and perimeter calculations, a comm...

AFOQT Exam Prep 33, Geometry — Circles 31.05.2026 3:23

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 distinguish and apply the circumference (2πr) and area (πr²...

AFOQT Exam Prep 32, Geometry — Triangles, Pythagorean, Similar Triangles 30.05.2026 3:33

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 sum of the interior angles in any triangle is always 180 d...

AFOQT Exam Prep 31, Quadratic Formula and the Discriminant 29.05.2026 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: - To memorize the quadratic formula, x = (−b ± √(b²−4ac)) / 2a,...

AFOQT Exam Prep 30, Factoring Quadratics — Difference of Squares, AC Method 28.05.2026 3:55

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 identify and factor a Difference of Squares (a²...

AFOQT Exam Prep 29, Solving Linear Equations and Inequalities 27.05.2026 3:22

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: - How to quickly isolate variables in single-variable linear equ...

AFOQT Exam Prep 28, Exponents and Radicals — Laws and Simplification 26.05.2026 3:27

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 simplify expressions, you must master the core exponent law...

AFOQT Exam Prep 27, Fractions, Decimals, Percent Conversions 25.05.2026 2:43

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: - Why instant recall of common fraction, decimal, and percent co...

AFOQT Exam Prep 26, Math Knowledge — Order of Operations and Number Properties 24.05.2026 3:54

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 multiplication/division and addition/subtraction have equ...

AFOQT Exam Prep 25, Word Knowledge Pacing — 5 Seconds Per Question 23.05.2026 2:58

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 AFOQT Word Knowledge subtest allows only 12 seconds per qu...