CE - Case study has some serious issues
Just took my CE exam w/ provisional fail. Not saying it was the primary reason why I failed but you need major improvements to provide better testing environment.
Case study references were extremely clunky and difficult to navigate. Texts on floor plans were very tiny and zooming in/out was very laggy.
Some of overlapping information between the references were not coherently matching.
Questions were unnecessarily ambiguous and barely relates to the material provided.
NCARB, please improve this. Your role is to help candidates to pass the exam under fair and clear circumstances. Not to lead them take multiple exams unfairly evaluated with poorly written questions.
Thank you,
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Sorry to hear about your failed exam. I had the same thing happen to me when I took CE 2 months ago.
Case studies hard to navigate between pdf-s. I couldn’t zoom into floor plans to reference what is being asked so I can answer the question. Some pdf-s were scans and not searchable taking extra time to navigate the exam. I even got a multiple choice question where I had a graphic and I could not read occupant load entirely. It was so small. And Yes, questions were so ambiguous and unrelated to materials provided. While my score was close to passing, I feel like I failed because of these case studies that were so hard to navigate.
I hope they do something to improve this. It’s already hard enough with white board that is very slow and unusable. Materials provided should be easy to navigate like they have shown so far on PCM exam.
Thank you
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I had the same issue when I took the PA exam.
During the exam, I was confident I would pass—until I got to the scenario questions.
Now, I’m really worried I might have the same bad experience with the CE exam, which is in two days.
I agree that NCARB doesn’t do a great job with scenario-based questions. -
I'm also consistently experiencing overly ambiguous questions between CE and PJM. I am very curious to hear a response from NCARB about this. I don't mind studying for these tests, but it's the way that some of these questions are asked that makes it feel like a reading comprehension test. I'm so tired of being confident in my selections and then later finding out that no I'm actually wrong because of some super obscure fact that I'm just supposed to know. So far no one from NCARB, as far as I can tell, has acknowledge the flaw in this way of testing, and it almost seems like extortion.
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