nickedemus wrote:I took the whole 4.0 series in Spring/Summer 2016. I found it to be very helpful, but I am the kind of person who does well under pressure. She gives you a pretty tight study schedule and the classes are fast paced.
I didn't stick to her schedule due to some life events, but I did pass all of the tests in just over a year. I had never studied for or taken any of the tests before that.
I felt that the SS classes and the BS classes were weaker than her other offerings. I think part of the reason for this is that CDS, PPP, and SPD have a lot of overlap, and even BDSC overlaps a bit in some ways (I can't remember exactly how, though).
I did fail SPD and SD the first time around, but both failures were due to my own error:In SPD, I passed all of the multiple choice and the grading vignette. But in the site planning vignette I forgot a whole element of the site plan! I tried squeezing it in during the last five minutes but to no avail. If I hadn't restarted the grading vignette, I probably would have had time.
For SD, it was another error where I missed something and ran out of time before I could fix it. This was on the building design program. They give you so much time that I just dillydallied and daydreamed. Then I noticed my error and and scrambled to shift everything around but once again the clock ran out. When I retook the test, I didn't allow myself to daydream and I double- and triple-checked the program. I finished the test with plenty of time remaining and felt a little paranoid about leaving early. But I did, and it was ok.
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