PPD Case Study plans are entirely too small to read!!!

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    William Hutch

    I had a similar issue. I couldn't find the information on the drawing due to the font size.

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    Bankole Folorunso (Edited )

    This is so true, the same scenario with PDD. I spent one hour trying to find information on PDD case study!!!

     

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    Brett Adams

    I had the same issue with my PPD case study questions. The font was illegible and zooming in only did so much. They would have gotten an RFI to clarify things, that's for sure. 

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    Brett Bowers

    Wasn't PPD, but I just took CE and experienced similar frustration. Navigating those case studies and locating minuscule notations was exasperating. Not even addressing the ~150 PDF pages of other documents per case study (split between specifications/agreements/field reports/schedules/pay apps/etc.) the drawing sets were each 10-15 full size sheets. Scrolling and zooming in/out to locate several individual door/wall/assembly/etc. tags (and sometimes comparing between plan/elevation sheets), only then to have to compare those tags to tiny finish schedules on separate sheets had me ready to pull my hair out.

    I literally fell to the floor when time expired, and my proctor got on to me about leaving the webcam (whoops). But at least I passed, so it's water under the bridge, I guess.

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    Maureen Ferry

    yes, I just completed the PDD yesterday and the same thing happened as on the PPD. The case study documents were very difficult to use considering the screen user interface and the exam time. This problem was most accute in the PPD and PDD case studies because of the subject matter covered compared to the case stidies in the other four ARE exams. 

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    HUIYI XU

    Yes. I totally agree with it and faced the exact problem of this case study for the PPD and PDD. People who create the exam needs to be aware that the exam's purpose is for testing the knowledge instead of struggling of font size, resolution. I have to zoom in and zoom out forth and back to overall look at the entire floor plans, elevations, and sections and details due to the resonation and font size. If it is the daily work we can spend more time on it, however this is an exam, is time consumption, and I have to spend time on the interface. It is terrible experience of this exam platform.

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    Brian Font

    Agree. PDF drawings on PDD are frustrating to navigate.

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