Authors: Fred N. Grayson, Mark N. Weinfeld, Sharon Shirley, Michael Hamid, Weinf
ISBN-13: 9780764568244, ISBN-10: 0764568248
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: August 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Fred N. Grayson 1st t., USAF, Retd, has published hundreds of books in conjunction with many major publishers. In addition, he has written and coauthored dozens of books in the test preparation field.
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Introduction | 1 | |
Military Career Areas | 1 | |
Benefits of a Military Career | 3 | |
Grade Levels | 4 | |
Qualifications, Training, and Advancement: The Road to Becoming an Officer | 4 | |
The Service Academies | 4 | |
Reserve Officer Training Corp (ROTC) | 4 | |
Officer Candidate School/Officer Training School | 5 | |
Requirements | 5 | |
OCS History | 5 | |
The Army Officer Candidate School | 6 | |
Air Force Officer Training School | 7 | |
Navy Officer Candidate School | 7 | |
Marines Officers Candidate School (OCS) | 7 | |
Coast Guard OCS | 8 | |
Qualifying Tests | 8 | |
Air Force Officer Qualifying Test (AFOQT) | 8 | |
U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Aviation Selection Test (ASTB) | 10 | |
The Armed Services Vocational Academic Battery (ASVAB) | 11 | |
Background | 12 | |
Content of the ASVAB | 12 | |
The Final Step | 13 | |
Part I | Subject Area Review | |
Verbal and Reading Review | 17 | |
Analogies | 17 | |
Classification of Analogies | 18 | |
Synonyms | 19 | |
Antonyms | 19 | |
Function | 19 | |
Part to Whole | 19 | |
Definition | 20 | |
Type | 20 | |
Analogy Practice Questions | 20 | |
Analogy Answers and Explanations | 22 | |
Reading Comprehension and Paragraph Comprehension | 22 | |
Answering Reading Comprehension Questions | 23 | |
The Directions | 23 | |
Test-Taking Strategies | 24 | |
Kinds of Questions | 24 | |
Identifying Stated Facts | 24 | |
Identifying Reworded Facts | 25 | |
Determining Sequence of Events | 26 | |
Identifying Main Ideas | 27 | |
Drawing Conclusions | 27 | |
Determining Purpose | 28 | |
Identifying Technique | 29 | |
Determining Mood and Tone | 30 | |
Reading Comprehension and Paragraph Comprehension Practice Questions | 31 | |
Reading Comprehension and Paragraph Comprehension Answers and Explanations | 33 | |
Word Knowledge Review | 34 | |
Kinds of Questions | 34 | |
Ways to Improve Your Vocabulary | 35 | |
Prefixes | 36 | |
Roots | 37 | |
Suffixes | 39 | |
Strategies for Scoring Well | 40 | |
Word Knowledge Practice Questions | 40 | |
Word Knowledge Answers and Explanations | 44 | |
Mathematics Review | 47 | |
Anithmetic Reasoning | 47 | |
The Numbers of Arithmetic | 47 | |
Whole Numbers | 47 | |
Rounding Whole Numbers | 48 | |
Fractions | 48 | |
Decimals | 49 | |
Percents | 50 | |
Arithmetic Operations | 50 | |
Addition of Whole Numbers | 50 | |
Addition of Decimals | 51 | |
Subtraction of Whole Numbers | 52 | |
Subtraction of Decimals | 53 | |
Multiplication of Whole Numbers | 54 | |
Multiplication of Decimals | 55 | |
Division of Whole Numbers | 56 | |
Division with Decimals | 59 | |
Arithmetic Word Problems | 59 | |
Basic One-Step and Two-Step Problems | 59 | |
Percent and Interest Problems | 61 | |
Ratio and Proportion Problems | 62 | |
Measurement Problems | 63 | |
Mathematics Knowledge | 65 | |
Number Theory | 65 | |
Factors | 65 | |
Common Factors | 65 | |
Prime Numbers | 66 | |
Multiples | 66 | |
Exponents | 67 | |
Square Roots | 68 | |
The Order of Operations | 69 | |
Operations with Integers | 70 | |
Operations with Fractions | 72 | |
Algebraic Operations and Equations | 74 | |
Numerical Evaluation | 74 | |
Solving Equations | 75 | |
Solving Word Problems | 77 | |
Multiplication with Exponents | 78 | |
Factoring | 79 | |
Simplifying Algebraic Expressions | 80 | |
Geometry and Measurement | 81 | |
Angle Measurement | 81 | |
Properties of Triangles | 83 | |
Properties of Circles | 85 | |
Perimeter and Area | 85 | |
Coordinates and Slope | 86 | |
Data Interpretation and Table Reading | 87 | |
Data Interpretation | 87 | |
Table Reading | 91 | |
Data Interpretation and Table Reading Practice Questions | 93 | |
Data Interpretation and Table Reading Answers and Explanations | 98 | |
Scale Reading | 99 | |
Scale Reading Practice Questions | 101 | |
Scale Reading Answers and Explanations | 104 | |
Mechanical Comprehension | 105 | |
Strategies for Scoring Well | 105 | |
Test Formats | 105 | |
Properties of Materials | 106 | |
Structural Support | 109 | |
Fluid Dynamics | 110 | |
Mechanical Motion | 111 | |
Centrifuges | 113 | |
Simple Machines | 113 | |
Compound Machines | 116 | |
Mechanical Comprehension Practice Questions | 119 | |
Sample ASVAB Questions | 119 | |
Sample AFOQT Questions | 120 | |
Sample ASTB Questions | 122 | |
Sample AFAST Questions | 124 | |
Answer and Explanations | 125 | |
Part II | Full-Length Practice Tests 1 | |
Answer Sheet for AFOQT Practice Test 1 | 129 | |
AFOQT Practice Test 1 | 131 | |
Part 1 | Verbal Analogies | 131 |
Part 2 | Arithmetic Reasoning | 133 |
Part 3 | Reading Comprehension | 136 |
Part 4 | Data Interpretation | 141 |
Part 5 | Word Knowledge | 147 |
Part 6 | Mathematics Knowledge | 149 |
Answer Key for AFOQT Practice Test 1 | 153 | |
Verbal Analogies | 153 | |
Arithmetic Reasoning | 153 | |
Reading Comprehension | 153 | |
Data Interpretation | 154 | |
Word Knowledge | 154 | |
Mathematics Knowledge | 154 | |
AFOQT Practice Test 1 Answers and Explanations | 155 | |
Verbal Analogies | 155 | |
Arithmetic Reasoning | 156 | |
Reading Comprehension | 157 | |
Data Interpretation | 158 | |
Word Knowledge | 160 | |
Mathematics Knowledge | 160 | |
Answer Sheet for ASTB Practice Test 1 | 163 | |
ASTB Practice Test 1 | 165 | |
Math/Verbal Test | 165 | |
Mechanical Comprehension Test | 170 | |
Answer Key for ASTB Practice Test 1 | 177 | |
Math/Verbal | 177 | |
Mechanical Comprehension | 177 | |
ASTB Practice Test 1 Answers and Explanations | 178 | |
Math/Verbal Test | 178 | |
Mechanical Comprehension | 179 | |
Answer Sheet for ASVAB Practice Test 1 | 183 | |
ASVAB Practice Test 1 | 185 | |
Word Knowledge | 185 | |
Paragraph Comprehension | 188 | |
Arithmetic Reasoning | 190 | |
Mathematics Knowledge | 193 | |
Answer Key for ASVAB Practice Test 1 | 196 | |
Word Knowledge | 196 | |
Paragraph Comprehension | 196 | |
Arithmetic Reasoning | 196 | |
Mathematics Knowledge | 197 | |
ASVAB Practice Test 1 Answers and Explanations | 197 | |
Word Knowledge | 197 | |
Paragraph Comprehension | 198 | |
Arithmetic Reasoning | 199 | |
Mathematics Knowledge | 200 | |
Part III | Full-Length Practice Tests 2 | |
Answer Sheet for AFOQT Practice Test 2 | 205 | |
AFOQT Practice Test 2 | 207 | |
Part 1 | Verbal Analogies | 207 |
Part 2 | Arithmetic Reasoning | 209 |
Part 3 | Reading Comprehension | 212 |
Part 4 | Data Interpretation | 217 |
Part 5 | Word Knowledge Test | 224 |
Part 6 | Mathematics Knowledge | 226 |
Answer Key for AFOQT Practice Test 2 | 229 | |
Verbal Analogies | 229 | |
Arithmetic Reasoning | 229 | |
Reading Comprehension | 229 | |
Data Interpretation | 230 | |
Word Knowledge | 230 | |
Mathematics Knowledge | 230 | |
AFOQT Practice Test 2 Answers and Explanations | 231 | |
Part 1 | Verbal Analogies | 231 |
Part 2 | Arithmetic Reasoning | 232 |
Part 3 | Reading Comprehension | 233 |
Part 4 | Data Interpretation | 234 |
Part 5 | Word Knowledge | 236 |
Part 6 | Mathematics Knowledge | 236 |
Answer Sheet for ASTB Practice Test 2 | 239 | |
ASTB Practice Test 2 | 241 | |
Math/Verbal Test | 241 | |
Mechanical Comprehension Test | 246 | |
Answer Key for ASTB Practice Test 2 | 257 | |
Math/Verbal | 257 | |
Mechanical Comprehension | 257 | |
ASTB Practice Test 2 Answers and Explanations | 258 | |
Math/Verbal | 258 | |
Mechanical Comprehension | 259 | |
Answer Sheet for ASVAB Practice Test 2 | 263 | |
ASVAB Practice Test 2 | 265 | |
Word Knowledge | 265 | |
Paragraph Comprehension | 268 | |
Arithmetic Reasoning | 270 | |
Mathematics Knowledge | 274 | |
Answer Key for ASVAB Practice Test 2 | 278 | |
Word Knowledge | 278 | |
Paragraph Comprehension | 278 | |
Arithmetic Reasoning | 278 | |
Mathematics Knowledge | 279 | |
ASVAB Practice Test 2 Answers and Explanations | 279 | |
Word Knowledge | 279 | |
Paragraph Comprehension | 280 | |
Arithmetic Reasoning | 281 | |
Mathematics Knowledge | 284 | |
Military Career Opportunities | 287 | |
Military Officer Occupations | 287 | |
How to Use this Careers Section | 288 | |
Officer Occupational Descriptions | 288 | |
Executive, Administrative, and Managerial Occupations | 288 | |
Human Service Occupations | 303 | |
Media and Public Affairs Occupations | 304 | |
Health Diagnosing and Treating Practitioner Occupations | 307 | |
Health Care Occupations | 310 | |
Engineering, Science, and Technical Occupations | 314 | |
Transportation Occupations | 328 | |
Combat Specialty Occupations | 333 | |
Officer Career Paths | 338 |