McGraw-Hill's Top 50 Skills For A Top Score: ASVAB Reading and Math: ASVAB Reading and Math with CD-ROM

Janet E. Wall

McGraw Hill Professional, Oct 8, 2010 - Study Aids - 192 pages

Target the 50 key skills to ace the reading and math sections of the ASVAB

McGraw-Hill's Top 50 Reading and Math Skills for ASVAB Success focuses directly on sharpening a defined list of specific skills that can add points to your score. It breaks up instructional material into short, easy-to-handle chunks. Within each lesson, problems of gradually increasing difficulty help you build your problem-solving skills. A posttest helps you check their mastery of each skill. Created by a former key member of the Department of Defense ASVAB development team, this guide also includes a CD-ROM with two additional 50-question posttests.

• Extra help and practice with every concept topic tested on the ASVAB
• Strategies for answering all multiple-choice and constructed response math question types on the SAT
• Small bits of information make a quick review--you can do one skill a day or a week and track your progress accordingly

Inside you'll find: 50 Top Skills Checklist; About the Pretest; Taking the ASVAB; ASVAB question types; 50-item Pretest Skills 1 - 50; Table of Formulas; 50-item Posttest I; Answers and Solutions; Computation Review; Table of Measurements; ASVAB Vocabulary; Word Roots; Prefixes; and Suffixes.

Contents

• What Is the ASVAB?: 1
• What Is the AFQT?: 6
• Types of AFQT Questions: 9
• Taking the AFQT Pretest: 13
• AFQT Pretest: 14
• Skill 1 Find the Main Idea in a Sentence in the Passage: 26
• Skill 2 Choose the Best Summary Statement of the Main Idea: 28
• Skill 3 Identify the Best Title: 30
• Skill 4 Focus on Facts and Details: 32
• Skill 5 Draw Conclusions: 34
• Skill 6 Identify the Feeling or Mood of the Passage: 36
• Skill 7 Focus on the Order of Events: 38
• Skill 8 Identify the Authors Purpose: 40
• Skill 9 Distinguish between Facts and Opinions: 42
• Skill 10 Paraphrase to Understand What You Are Reading: 44
• Skill 11 Compare and Contrast: 46
• Skill 12 Make Inferences: 48
• Skill 13 Use Context Clues to Understand Unfamiliar Words: 50
• Skill 14 Know Root Words: 52
• Skill 15 Recognize Prefixes and Their Meanings: 54
• Skill 16 Recognize Suffixes and Their Meanings: 58
• Skill 17 Identify SynonymsPart 1: 62
• Skill 18 Identify SynonymsPart 2: 66
• Skill 19 Build Your Vocabulary: 70
• Skill 20 Know No Your Homonyms: 74
• Skill 21 Know Your Antonyms: 78
• Skill 22 Watch for Words That Are Often Confused: 80
• Skill 23 Add and Subtract Accurately: 82
• Skill 24 Multiply Whole Numbers: 84
• Skill 25 Divide Whole Numbers: 86
• Skill 26 Work with Positive and Negative Numbers: 88
• Skill 27 Know Place Values and How to Round: 90
• Skill 28 Order Your Operations: 92
• Skill 29 Use Fractions and Decimals: 94
• Skill 30 Understand Mixed Numbers: 96
• Skill 31 Add and Subtract Fractions Mixed Numbers and Decimals: 98
• Skill 32 Multiply and Divide Fractions Mixed Numbers and Decimals: 100
• Skill 33 Convert between Percents Fractions and Decimals: 102
• Skill 34 Use Exponents and Roots: 104
• Skill 35 Use Scientific Notation: 106
• Skill 36 Identify and Understand the Mean Median and Mode: 108
• Skill 37 Interpret Charts and Graphs: 110
• Skill 38 Understand and Solve Equations: 114
• Skill 39 Calculating Simple and Compound Interest: 118
• Skill 40 Use Ratio and Proportion to Solve Problems: 120
• Skill 41 Calculate Distance Rate and Time: 122
• Skill 42 Determining Change and Percent Change: 124
• Skill 43 Calculate the Probability of an Event: 126
• Skill 44 Analyze Lines and Angles: 128
• Skill 45 Understand the Characteristics of Triangles: 132
• Skill 46 Know the Characteristics of Quadrilaterals: 136
• Skill 47 Calculate the Perimeter of Polygons: 140
• Skill 48 Calculate the Area of Polygons: 142
• Skill 49 Calculate the Volume and Surface Area of Solids: 146
• Skill 50 Calculate the Measures of a Circle a Sphere or a Cylinder: 148
• AFQT Posttest: 150
• Skill Answers and Solutions: 162
• AFQT Resources: 178
• For Download: 188

About the author

Janet E. Wall, Ph.D. was the manager of the ASVAB Career Exploration Center at the Defense Manpower Data Center (Department of Defense). She has also served as president of the Association for Assessment in Counseling and Education (AACE). Currently she is a consultant on instructional, testing, and career issues for the U.S. Department of Defense, Department of Education, Department of Labor, and other federal government agencies. Among her many awards is the Commander's Award of the U.S. Military Entrance Processing Command, the agency that directs the activities of all recruiters for the U.S. military.

Bibliographic information

• Title: McGraw-Hill's Top 50 Skills For A Top Score: ASVAB Reading and Math: ASVAB Reading and Math with CD-ROM; McGraw-Hill's Top 50 Skills
• Author: Janet E. Wall
• Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional, 2010
• ISBN: 0071718001, 9780071718004
• Length: 192 pages
• Subjects: Study Aids / Professional