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ASVAB Practice For Dummies
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The ASVAB (short for Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery) covers standard academic areas, such as math and English, but it also measures your knowledge of other areas, such as mechanics, electronics, science, and assembling objects. No matter which branch of the military you want to enter, Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines or Coast Guard, the best way to get a good score on this entrance exam is to practice AND practice the right materials. This essential app provides a comprehensive review of all test subjects and covers the latest updates. You'll discover the pros and cons of the paper and computer exams, which tests are important to your military career and vocations, and cutting-edge study techniques. If you are new to the ASVAB test or retaking the test to raise and improve your ASVAB score, you’ll find everything you get to practice and prepare in this app.
App Features:
Multiple Choice Study Questions broken out by categories, so you can target your study skills and better understand the ASVAB test’s formats. Practice questions in Word Knowledge & Paragraph Comprehension, Reasoning and Skills, General Science, Auto & Shop, Mechanical Comprehension, Electronics, and Assembling Objects.
Three full-featured practice tests and AFQT (Armed Forces Qualification Test) are designed to help you at every stage of the test-taking process.
Countdown timer for YOUR ASVAB Test Date.
Tips, Tips, & More Tips
Truth be told those who do well on tests are those who’ve learned to study efficiently – along with a dash of test-taking psychology. This section includes information on how to prepare for the ASVAB, including improving your study techniques. You’ll get practical tips on how to answer Multiple Choice Questions, memorize key concepts, overall test-taking tips, pretest preparation strategies, and even how to make educated guesses when you have to. This App is loaded with extras that answer all your questions including:
- ASVAB Subtest Descriptions and Information
- Scoring – the hows and whys of computing your score and what it all means
- Retaking the ASVAB
- Paper vs. Computer-based ASVAB
- Ten Ways to Improve Your ASVAB Score
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SAT Vocabulary Practice For Dummies
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The SAT Vocabulary Practice For Dummies App focuses exclusively on the vocabulary you need to know to get a good verbal score on the SAT exam. You’ll quickly increase your vocabulary with flashcards, practice tests, word lookup, and fun ways to incorporate new vocabulary into your daily routine, such as getting out of gym class or chores, placating an irate parent, refusing a date, bamboozling a traffic officer, or leaving a legacy in your yearbook. This app features proven study methods, such as making associations, repetition, and paying attention to prefixes, suffixes, and roots of words.
App Features:
Flashcards
Hundreds of easy-to-use flashcards feature the most widely tested words and definitions. BONUS: an option where you can study the prefixes, roots, and suffixes, most commonly used.
Test Yourself
Four, real-world practice tests give you a feel for what to expect on the test. The practice tests illustrate the meaning of words by placing them in the context of a sentence—usually through humorous stories. An exclusive Genius Test challenges even the most gifted vocabulary student.
Word Lookup
A comprehensive, alphabetical listing of the most common words gives you an opportunity to review words at your own pace. Complete with definition and handy “rhymes with” tips for pronouncing tough words, you’ll have a superfluous (excessive) vocabulary and you may even be sanguine (cheerful or optimistic) about the test.
Extras
- An overview of why paying attention to prefixes, roots, and suffixes can increase the number of words you are able to identify.
- How making word and people associations can increase the number of words you are able to recall.
- Repetition, Repetition, Repetition – incorporate a new word into your vocabulary and keep using and whola – you are on your way to expanding your vocabulary and impressing your friends and family.
- Ways to use compliments and put downs to remember more words.
- Putting new vocabulary words into tweets, e-mails, status postings, and school assignments- things you do each and every day and you’ll increase not only your vocabulary, but those around you.
- Ten Ways to Put a Good Vocabulary to Use
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CompTIA A+ Certification Practice For Dummies
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Prepare for the CompTIA A+ Certification exam – the fun and easy way!
Earning an A+ Certified Professional status can offer you a real career boost, and this app is packed with the study and practice tools you need to help you pass the test and get that A+ after your name.
This must-have app covers the CompTIA A+ Essentials Exam (220-701) and Practical Application Exam (220-702) and is a great addition to your test prep toolbox. Packed with study questions on everything from hardware to operating systems to networking, troubleshooting, maintenance, and more, this app will reinforce what you’ve already learned and help you gain valuable test-taking experience on all the exam objectives.
App Features:
- Multiple Choice Study Questions broken out into individual topic areas so you can target your study skills and better understand the content you must master to meet each exam objective
- Full-Featured Practice Tests simulate the actual test-taking experience and help you prepare for the real thing
- Useful Test-Taking Tips provide an overview of both the CompTIA A+ Certification exams, guidance on scheduling your test, advice on what to expect on exam day, and information on how your exam will be scored
- CompTIA A+ Exam Reference Matrix identifies which study questions you should focus on to meet each exam objective and provides links to the related study questions in the app
- Countdown timer for YOUR A+ Certification Test Date gives you a daily reminder on the app homescreen of how many days you have left to practice for the A+ exam
Get a jump on your IT career and make your A+ Certification exam a little easier with the CompTIA A+ Certification Practice For Dummies app as your guide!
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SAT Practice For Dummies
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This app gets you ready for the biggest test of your high school years. And, the more practice you have, the better you’ll score. This app features more than 150 practice questions covering critical reading, writing, and math skills. You’ll also get two full length practice exams covering every section of the test WITH time limits – just like on test day. Our proven tips are designed to make test preparation and test day just a bit easier. Regardless of your academic strengths or weaknesses, the app gets you test-ready.
Study Questions
Over 150 practice questions cover EVERY type of question you’ll see on test day, including long passages, short passages, sentence completion, essays, error recognition, sentence revision, paragraph revision, numbers and operations, algebra & functions, geometry, and statistics, probability and logic. You’ll know instantly if you got a question right or wrong and WHY.
Test Yourself
Two, full-length, timed practice tests give you a feel for what to expect on the test. The practice tests cover all eight sections of the SAT and automatic scoring at the end of each section tells you your percentage score for that section. The ability to mark and then review only marked questions, gives you practice on what you need the most. And you can review all the answers at the end of each section or just the ones where you got the answer wrong.
Test Tips
Statistically, the SAT is used to determine how successful you will be in your first year of college – no pressure there. So, we’ve created an extensive list of tips designed to make your test day as successful as possible. Discover how to battle short passages, complete sentences, get through reading passages, read a bit faster, when to skip questions, what to double-check, the best way to spend the 25 minutes of the essay section, and ways to get and stay calm throughout.
Extras
- Details on what the SAT measures (critical reading, sentence completions, reading comprehension, writing, error recognition, sentence revision, paragraph revision, essay, mathematics, and how your score is computed)
- Taking the SAT under special conditions (learning disabilities)
- How and when to register for the SAT
- Taking the SAT vs. the ACT
Plus, a “Days Until the Test” countdown clock to help you focus and prepare.
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