4th attempt - fail
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Victor,
If I knew you in person, I would give you a big hug first.... This is no any other words I could describe how stupid and useless these exams are. They are not really testing our knowledge or what we know in the real world.
I wish NCARB one day will wake up and recognize their exams do not make any better architects, maybe worse. Passing these exams are more like pure luck.
I am on the same boat here. Here is my last one and my sixth tries? I stopped counting.... tbh too shame to remember. Anyway, keep at it! almost there tho.
Here is my study group link. If you need some motivation or anything, feel free to join us.
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Vuctor that's such a hard book in my opinion it's impossible to master all the content of the book without studying for a year in college. I believe its extremely unfair that the Architecture degress have not prepared us in anyway for the ARE exams. Most of the Architecture degrees are all focused on design and almost none of the are contend is coveted in School.
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Victor,
I failed PPD six times. You read that right. I passed on the seventh. Do not be discouraged. I promise it's worth the effort, tears, frustration, and struggle. It is one of the harder tests in the series, and it's meant to be challenging.
Try the YA Bootcamp, it helped me over the hurdle having a support group I could study content with. It guided my focus on content that was important to the exam, since it's one of the exams that has the most resourced material on their matrix at the time I took it. Aimlessly studying thousands of pages and dozens of books was causing me my frustration, and the group ensured I was looking in the right places.
You don't fail unless you give up. Every non-passed exam is just an expensive practice test. You got this, keep going. -
Victor, you are not alone on this, right after graduation, i was young and self confident that my own intelligence can conquer the exams, same as my friends, we didn't study, or bearly look through the materials then sign up for 7 test in consequtive 2-3 days, then got the absolutely failure results, most of my friends they changed their careers, only couple of them stay in this business. in a long rally, we are beaten up by reality, i have experienced from 4.0 - now 5.0, i have to keep my head down study and study, as matter of fact, you have to get some sort of luck to pass the test. I just failed my third trail on PDD, which i think was not hard for this time, but still a fail. so i need to go back pull myself together ,and try agian. i think you and I share some common ground, i have about 18yrs experience, know a bit more in real life may be not good for your test as well, cuz they are different. so just let you konw, step by step, you are in good shape, and english is not my first language, you can feel how nasty was, when I read those AIA contract doc. so, just keep it going, we can do this.
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