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Education Exam Prep episodes

  • ParaPro Exam Prep 36, Measurement — Units, Conversions, Time, and Money
    This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
    In this episode you will learn:
    - Key US Customary unit conversions for length (inches, feet, yards), capacity (ounces, cups, pints), and weight (pounds, tons) frequently tested on the ParaPro exam.
    - How to use the metric system's base-10 prefixes (kilo-, centi-, milli-) to perform conversions for length, volume, and mass quickly and accurately.
    - A practical method for solving elapsed time problems by 'counting up' in chunks of time to avoid common subtraction errors.
    - The exam's approach to money problems, focusing on real-world classroom scenarios like calculating totals and making correct change.
    - A simple mnemonic for conversions: "Big to small, multiply all; Small to big, divide the pig," to master directionality in your calculations.
    For more free exam prep tools, practice questions, and AI-powered explanations, visit https://open-exam-prep.com/ or YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Open-exam-prep
    4 min
  • ParaPro Exam Prep 35, Transformations and Symmetry
    This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
    In this episode you will learn:
    - How to differentiate between the four geometric transformations: translation, reflection, rotation, and dilation.
    - The critical distinction between congruent figures, produced by rigid transformations, and similar figures, produced by dilation.
    - A common ParaPro exam trap that tests your understanding of which transformation changes a figure's size.
    - How to identify and count lines of symmetry and determine the properties of rotational symmetry in common shapes.
    - A simple mnemonic, "Rigid transformations are 'Really, Really Tight' (R-R-T)" to remember that reflections, rotations, and translations produce congruent figures.
    For more free exam prep tools, practice questions, and AI-powered explanations, visit https://open-exam-prep.com/ or YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Open-exam-prep
    4 min
  • ParaPro Exam Prep 34, The Pythagorean Theorem
    This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
    In this episode you will learn:
    - The Pythagorean theorem, a² + b² = c², applies exclusively to right triangles to find a missing side length.
    - The variable 'c' always represents the hypotenuse, which is the longest side and is located opposite the right angle.
    - Memorizing common Pythagorean triples, such as 3-4-5 and 5-12-13, can significantly speed up problem-solving on the exam.
    - The theorem's converse can be used to determine if a triangle is a right triangle by checking if the side lengths satisfy the formula.
    - Finding the distance between two points on a coordinate plane is a practical application of the Pythagorean theorem.
    4 min
  • ParaPro Exam Prep 33, Perimeter, Area, and Volume
    This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
    In this episode you will learn:
    - How to distinguish perimeter, area, and volume by their dimensionality and units (units, units², units³).
    - The most common exam trap on the ParaPro: confusing the formula for a rectangle's perimeter with its area.
    - A simple mnemonic, PAV-123, to remember the correct units for Perimeter, Area, and Volume.
    - Why you must halve a circle's diameter to find the radius *before* calculating the area.
    - How the ParaPro exam uses irrelevant information, like a triangle's slant height, to distract test-takers from the correct area formula.
    For more free exam prep tools, practice questions, and AI-powered explanations, visit https://open-exam-prep.com/ or YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Open-exam-prep
    3 min
  • ParaPro Exam Prep 32, Geometry — Polygons, Triangles, and Quadrilaterals
    This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
    In this episode you will learn:
    - The sum of angles in any triangle is always 180 degrees, while the sum in any quadrilateral is 360 degrees.
    - How to classify triangles by their sides (scalene, isosceles, equilateral) and by their angles (acute, right, obtuse).
    - The formula for the sum of interior angles in any polygon: (n-2) × 180°, where 'n' is the number of sides.
    - The specific properties of quadrilaterals like parallelograms, trapezoids, rectangles, rhombuses, and squares.
    - How to navigate common exam traps, such as understanding that a square is simultaneously a type of rectangle and a type of rhombus.
    For more free exam prep tools, practice questions, and AI-powered explanations, visit https://open-exam-prep.com/ or YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Open-exam-prep
    4 min
  • ParaPro Exam Prep 31, Geometry — Points, Lines, and Angles
    This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
    In this episode you will learn:
    - The exact definitions of lines, line segments, and rays as they appear on the ParaPro exam.
    - The critical difference between parallel and perpendicular lines and their exam-relevant properties.
    - A simple mnemonic to permanently distinguish between complementary (sum to 90°) and supplementary (sum to 180°) angles.
    - How the 'vertical angles are equal' rule is a shortcut to solving problems involving intersecting lines.
    - The key relationships to master for parallel lines cut by a transversal: corresponding and alternate interior angles.
    For more free exam prep tools, practice questions, and AI-powered explanations, visit https://open-exam-prep.com/ or YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Open-exam-prep
    4 min
  • ParaPro Exam Prep 30, Patterns, Functions, and Coordinate Graphs
    This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
    In this episode you will learn:
    - How to distinguish between arithmetic (adding a constant) and geometric (multiplying a constant) patterns.
    - The definition of a function as a rule assigning exactly one output (y) for every input (x).
    - How to interpret the slope-intercept form of a linear equation, y = mx + b.
    - The correct procedure for plotting (x, y) coordinates on a graph by moving horizontally then vertically.
    - How to avoid the common exam trap of reversing the x and y coordinates when plotting points.
    For more free exam prep tools, practice questions, and AI-powered explanations, visit https://open-exam-prep.com/ or YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Open-exam-prep
    4 min
  • ParaPro Exam Prep 29, Solving One-Step and Two-Step Equations
    This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
    In this episode you will learn:
    - The core principle of solving equations is to isolate the variable by using inverse operations on both sides.
    - When solving two-step equations, use the reverse order of operations, often remembered by the mnemonic SADMEP.
    - On the ParaPro exam, these problems are often disguised as word problems that must first be translated into an algebraic equation.
    - A common exam trap is performing an operation on only one side of the equation; incorrect answer choices often reflect this error.
    - Always check your final answer by substituting it back into the original equation to ensure it is correct.
    For more free exam prep tools, practice questions, and AI-powered explanations, visit https://open-exam-prep.com/ or YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Open-exam-prep
    4 min
  • ParaPro Exam Prep 28, Algebra Basics — Expressions and Equations
    This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
    In this episode you will learn:
    - The critical difference between an algebraic expression, which is simplified, and an equation, which is solved.
    - How to properly evaluate an expression by substituting a given value for a variable.
    - The rule of combining only 'like terms' and how to avoid the common exam trap of adding unlike terms.
    - How to correctly apply the distributive property, such as a(b + c) = ab + ac, without error.
    - The balancing principle for solving equations, ensuring any operation is performed on both sides to isolate the variable.
    For more free exam prep tools, practice questions, and AI-powered explanations, visit https://open-exam-prep.com/ or YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Open-exam-prep
    3 min
  • ParaPro Exam Prep 27, Integers and Rational Numbers
    This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
    In this episode you will learn:
    - How to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division with positive and negative integers.
    - A simple mnemonic for remembering the rules of signs in integer operations.
    - How the ParaPro Assessment tests concepts of integers and rational numbers, including common traps like subtracting a negative number.
    - The definition of rational numbers and how they relate to integers, fractions, and decimals.
    - How to approach exam-style questions involving number lines and ordering different types of rational numbers.
    For more free exam prep tools, practice questions, and AI-powered explanations, visit https://open-exam-prep.com/ or YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Open-exam-prep
    4 min

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Education Exam Prep is a free, daily podcast by OpenExamPrep covering the most in-demand teacher licensure and education certification exams — including Praxis Core, Praxis Subject Assessments (Math,…