I am reaching my retirement age but I have not accomplish several items on my bucket list
I am too old to post here because I started taking the exams in 1988 before many of you were born. Back then, California had its own CALE exam prior to converting to the NCARB ARE. I took the exam when I had to bring my drafting boards and stool.
I failed all nine sections in 1988 and 1989. Then, I learned to take one at a time, a year apart. I passed all seven divisions before the computer era of 1997. At that time, ARE, I believe, was 3.0, and the conversion of my seven passed divisions netted me two divisions to take. My family situation became my priority, and I put aside my dream of licensing for over a decade. Then, I took one of the two ARE divisions and passed the Method and Construction in 2008. One more to go, then I learned of the Rolling Clock policy with just about ten months before I would lose all of my past divisions. At that time, I could only retake the exam every six months, meaning I must pass my last exam in one try. I passed my last holdout which was construction documents and services in April 2013. By then, my marriage was on a rock, and I postponed my California Supplemental Exam again. It's now more than a decade since passing all of my ARE, my record in California has been purged, and I no longer have the completed AXP and the college degree records on file.
I don't even know where to begin. I signed on to NCARB as a member, but according to my record, I have no AXP, no college degree transcript, and I have not completed any ARE division. Did I lose my entire completed ARE? By the way, My ex-wife, bipolar, suffered mental issues and died last year from excessive alcohol and Oxycodone consumption.
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