How to Prepare for the ASVAB: Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery

by Barron's Educational Series

Book Overview

The new, updated edition of Barron's ASVAB manual presents review courses in all test subjects plus four full-length practice exams with all questions answered and explained. The book's subject review... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764132814
• ISBN13: 9780764132810
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Barrons Educational Series
• Length: 484 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.2" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

Great study guide!!!

I studied my butt off with the help of this book. The practice tests in this book were actually harder than the real ASVAB! That helped me be even more prepared. I only missed 5 questions on the ASVAB! NO LIE! Study this book for about 3 weeks and take it seriously. You will see your scores improve!!!

Preparing for a not difficult but important test

When you go into the military you take a battery of tests. They don't make a big deal of these tests, just one more thing in an endless line of things like getting uniforms and shots. These tests are not even very difficult. BUT these tests are very important. They determine where the military is going to put you. With good scores you get into things like electronic maintenance or computer programming that will pay very good dividends when you get out. With bad scores you are lugging a machine gun around Iraq -- not very useful training for when you get out. This test, like a lot of others given to kids at about that time is really an intelligence test. Well, let's say that the types of questions that you see on the tests are very similar to intelligence test questions. While you can't really improve your intelligence, you can certainly improve your test taking ability. The test questions here won't be the exact questions you'll see on the ASVAB, but they'll be similar in style, difficulty, and overall content. Knowing what to expect will increase your scores, improve your assignments to schools and generally improve your life. The CD included with the book gives a lot of additional questions that will likewise improve your scores. There are stories of a virus on the CD, but it seems to be a problem with Norton Anti-Virus rather than with the disk itself.

This is the BEST book for ASVAB test prep out there!

I looked at all the books available, and this has the most up-to-date information on both study review material and the test itself. It's better written, too, and easier to understand. The ASVAB has been updated and changed--many other books are still trying to prepare readers for a previous version of the test with outdated information. This 8th edition is great!!!

Tests on the CD-ROM are practical and effective.

The tests on the CD-ROM are practical and effective. Timing on questions and metrics displayed are useful to measure progress in learning. There is no other product on the market that can give you extensive training on the ASVAB tests like this CD.I noticed that some users had issues with installing the product, such as Norton Antivirus terminating the installation due to the presence of a virus W95.CIH.Corrupt. After investigating I found that this is a problem with the Norton Antivirus package. Norton Antivirus 2004 or earlier versions, with current virus definitions via live update (virus definitions after August, 2003), is buggy and wrongly detects that an installation file is infected! Similar problems may exist with McAfee as well.A patch is available online that will fix this problem. (...)Hope this helps. Good luck with the ASVAB!

Asvab !!

i took my asvab and scored 88 on itit wasnt easy as my recruiter told me, but i found many questions in the test that were in the bookwhat a Coincidence :P