"I HAVE AN ADMISSION TO MAKE" ASVAB by Richard J. Rome Copyright © 2000, 2003 All rights reserved.

Table of Contents

Forewords:
Dr. Joseph Cooper, Professor of Political Science and
former Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs,
Johns Hopkins University...............................................06
Dr. William E. Fitzgibbon III, Chairman and Professor
of the Department of Mathematics,
University of Houston..................................................07

Acknowledgments........................................................08
HIGHER SCORES FOR HIGHER EDUCATION.....................................09

Introduction...........................................................13
    - If you pay peanuts to prep.......................................16
    - guessing: defensive/offensive/horseshoes and hand grenades.......17
    - cups and doughnuts during the PSAT and the SAT...................18
    - the possibilities worth considering..............................22
    - introducing the keys.............................................24
    - Manage, to have a good time on your test.........................26

THE MATH PREP
MATH 1: fractions, ratios, percentages and averages....................27
    - a get-rich-quick illusion........................................68
    - reinforcement test Math-I (answers, scoring, solutions)..........69-80
MATH II: the real number system........................................82
    - integers (are integral), odds, evens.............................82
    - algebraic operations.............................................85
    - identities.......................................................87
    - factors, multiples...............................................88
    - prime numbers, composite numbers.................................88
    - The powers of exponents..........................................89
    - Do you know your perfect squares?................................91
    - Radicals are a good riddance.....................................97
    - the order of algebraic operations................................100
    - variables in terms of other variables............................101
    - equalities, inequalities.........................................105-108
    - Does symbolism give you an embolism?.............................109
    - reinforcement test Math II (answers and solutions)...............113-126

GEOMETRY
MATH III: Geometry (the first dimension)...............................127
    - angles, lines....................................................127
    - triangles........................................................128
    - the right triangle...............................................129
    - quadrilaterals...................................................132
    - polygons.........................................................134
    - face diagonals...................................................135
    - circles..........................................................137
    - Re-recount twenty-two keys.......................................146
    - reinforcement test Math III (answers and solutions)..............147-164
MATH IV: Geometry of Areas (the second dimension)......................165
MATH V: Cartesian coordinates..........................................175
    - reinforcement test Math IV, V (answers and solutions)............179-193
MATH VI: Geometry of Volumes (the third dimension).....................194
    - space diagonal...................................................195
    - reinforcement test Math VI (answers and solutions)...............205-217

WORD PROBLEMS
MATH VII: WORD PROBLEMS: variation, motion, work, assigned-values......218
    - variation........................................................218
    - Does motion make you throw up?...................................223
    - work.............................................................227
    - assigned-value problems..........................................231
WHICH ONE OF THE FOLLOWING EXPRESSES HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT SYMBOLISM?
........................................................235

THE VERBAL PREP
VERBAL I
    - Synonyms work backwards and forwards.............................236
    - reinforcement test I-A and I-B (followed by answers).............247
VERBAL II
    - analogies........................................................259
    - analogies, a typology............................................272
    - reinforcement test (followed by answers and types)...............273
VERBAL III
    - Extemporaneous Essay..........(not tested on the ASVAB)..........279-295
VERBAL I, II
    - reinforcement test (followed by answers and types)...............296-300
CRITICAL READING
VERBAL IV
    - critical reading structural keys.................................301
    - subordination and the main idea..................................302
    - critical reading/prose...........................................303
    - general versus specific..........................................305
    - formula for the main point of a critical-reading passage.........312
    - convolution and comprehension....................................315
    - choosing the correct answer......................................317
    - previewing.......................................................320
    - annotating/mapping...............................................324
    - self-esteem......................................................329
    - Spinoza (political science)......................................335
    - a dilemma in the humanities......................................338
    - hard science.....................................................342
    - science (textbook versus popular)................................349
    - science? (a trope)...............................................353
    - narrative (fiction/nonfiction)...................................355
    - rhetorical devices...............................................357
    - fiction..........................................................361
LOGIC
    - Venn diagrams....................................................368

PERORATION IN THE LOCKER ROOM BEFORE THE TEST..........................378

GLOSSARY...............................................................381