I’ve got to be the official WORST ARE candidate there has ever been. It’s been over two years since I first passed SD, and it has been nearly two years since my first SPD fail. I’ve since taken SPD a second time, PPP, and CDS once each. I’ve just returned from Tacoma taking SPD for the third time - incredible view of Mt. Rainier this morning; only positive thing today so far - It felt just as terrible as the last two times I took it. I really felt like I was ready this time. I’ve studied so many sources. Read entire SWPPP. Architect’s handbook. Jenny’s notes three times. Made my own guides and memorized the codes and regs. Read Kaplan and ballast. Did all quizzes and practice exams. Re-examed the ones I got wrong, looked up those sources, ARE SPD Guide, it’s practice exam. ....the test still felt foreign. Like I had never seen the content. Occasionally I’d see something familiar, but it rarely had the appropriate answer. Nothing seems to help. All I’m doing is burning away time from my family, work, it’s financially starting to hurt. I have no choice but to just keep trying again and again and again. It makes me feel like I’m suffocating. I am seriously considering dropping the big bucks for a course like Funkaar. It’s a huge investment, but what does it take to make this f***ing sh** click with me?!
FYSA, I know this is highly embarrassing, and I’m sure it’ll eventually turn into one of those stories of hope when I eventually pass, but right now, there is only frustration.