by gbalaka » Wed Jan 03, 2018 9:33 pm
For these exams, cramming information in the last minute will not be a good solution as it will burn you out. It appears that you are not grasping the general concepts or maybe you're a nervous test taker.
What study material have you been reading? TWE? Kaplan? Balast? Have you been doing practice exams?
Out of the 7 AREs, SPD is the only one that failed, so I understand your struggle. I remember reading all three of the study guides above and I also signed up for the practice exams on DesignerHacks.com.
The Balast practice exams are quite difficult and that whole series of study material taught me a lot of things.
Message me your info and i can send you some PDFs to read.
And don't worry about the switch.....the material for this exam is also on the 5.0 version of the ARE.