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Summary: Infuriating
Review: A screw has 8 threads per inch and a vise must travel 2 inches along it. How many revolutions must the handle make? 16, right? The book says 18, with no explanation of the mysterious missing threads. Do you have to spin a couple of times to get going?In short, the explanations stink (the editors routinely use oddball approaches in their math and skip whole series of steps) and there is not enough background material or pointers to references. The entire mechanical comprehension section is lifted wholesale out of two freely-available Navy manuals and the test questions are just the examples that the Navy used. There is no online companion to this - not even an errata so the authors could point out some of their mistakes. I take this exam next week and I'm scared.
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Summary: Infuriating
Review: A screw has 8 threads per inch and a vise must travel 2 inches along it. How many revolutions must the handle make? 16, right? The book says 18, with no explanation of the mysterious missing threads. Do you have to spin a couple of times to get going? In short, the explanations stink (the editors routinely use oddball approaches in their math and skip whole series of steps) and there is not enough background material or pointers to references. The entire mechanical comprehension section is lifted wholesale out of two freely-available Navy manuals and the test questions are just the examples that the Navy used. There is no online companion to this - not even an errata so the authors could point out some of their mistakes. I take this exam next week and I'm scared.
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Summary: Lots of sample questions
Review: Book is good for reviewing what you might need to brush up on. Don't base your future on this book alone.
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Summary: Great help for tests, practice tests were helpful.
Review: Has sections for all branches... good practic
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Summary: Handy guide
Review: Having recently joined the Air Force ROTC, it was inevitable that I would have to take the AFOQT (Air Force Officer Qualifying Test). Knowing this, I grabbed a copy of /Officer Candidate Tests/, as recommended by AFROTC and my own detachment. The book offers a good overview of the requirements for becoming an officer of any branch of the military, the hundreds of career paths available, what sort of degree and traits you need for a given field, a rough estimate of pay grades, etc.
The real meat of the book, though, and the reason most people will buy it, is the coverage of the various officer tests. I can't comment on how well this book prepares you for other branches of the military, but I can say that /Officer Candidate Tests/ is a good starting point for the AFOQT. There are hundreds of sample problems that give a good idea of what areas the real test covers. In fact, I found many of the samples to be a good deal more difficult than anything I had on the actual test -- a good thing, since if you can handle the subjects the book presents with reasonable competence, you know you will do fine on the real deal.
There are some significant drawbacks, however. Firstly, the book only covers the "academic aptitude" (verbal and math/logic skills) and electrical/mechanical comprehension portions of tests. There's good material on the former and fairly skimpy preparation on the latter, but on the AFOQT, academic aptitude makes up only half of the exam. That's fine if you're not planning on being a pilot or navigator, but the remaining half of the test is rather critical for pilots. There's not even rudimentary descriptions of what the electrical maze, scale reading, instrument comprehension, block counting, and hidden figures questions are like. Again, if you are interested in being a pilot or navigator, that's a pretty large gap in knowledge to have when going into such an important test.
This isn't the world's best prep book, but I feel it was a big help in preparing me for the AFOQT, insofar as the half of the test it actually covered. I probably would have done better on the other sections if I had had any way of preparing. Even sections like the electrical maze, which are not something you can really "study" for, would have had a bit less shock value if I had at least seen an example or two. Then again, this is the military; you need to be able to handle some shock and pressure...
Bottom line - if you are wanting to become an officer, grab this book. It's decently priced, there's good info on career possibilities, and you'll get a feel for where you stand on the academic portions of a given officer test. Definitely a good starting point.
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Summary: A study guide that needs some work.
Review: I bought both this book and Military Flight Aptitude Tests to prepare for my Naval Officer Specimen Battery. I think that this book is nowhere near as helpful as the other. Even if you don't want to be a pilot, the other guide is much more comprehensive.
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Summary: No te prepara suficiente para el test
Review: I bought this book because I thought its prepare me for the test the reality is other. The book was not good. I took the ASTB test for Navy officer and the test is completly difference.
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Summary: No te prepara suficiente para el test
Review: I bought this book because I thought its prepare me for the test the reality is other. The book was not good. I took the ASTB test for Navy officer and the test is completly difference.
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Summary: Save your Money and Time
Review: I studied this book inside out, and learned the hard way that it was worthless. Try the SAT or GMAT for real help.
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Summary: Do Not Buy This Book
Review: Im active duty Air Force so take it from me. If youre really serious about becoming an officer, dont buy this book. I practically memorized this book (ie. test format, math exercises, etc.) but it didnt help me at all. Buy other books and study hard. Take a Math refresher course and/or an English course if you have to.
Maybe Im just not good at these tests... I dont know. I took the Air Force AFOQT twice (youre only allowed to take it twice). The first time I scored REALLY low. I bought this book along with other books to prepare for the second test but it didnt made any difference. I did everything to prepare but my scores... Urghh!!!
Majority of the folks that do well on this test are graduates (fresh out of highschool or college) because the material is still fresh in their brain. If youre active duty military (enlisted) trying to cross to the officer corps, then you would have to be a very good test taker because its a percentage game.
Im not trying to be negative and all. In fact I know some people who didnt even read a book to prepare, matter of fact this guy I knew was drunk the night before he took the exam and his scores were in the 80s accross the board. I mean how crazy is that? Its a percentage game is what it is. If majority of the folks taking the test with you score really high, then your chances of making it is grim. So before you take the test, look around the test room and if you see folks that look like Bill Gates or that Dexter kid, tell the proctor youre not feeling well and you want to re-schedule.
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