Hey guys, just tested today (9/17/17). And want to put here my means and methods of studying.
First Id like to thank coach for all his help on these forums with the vignettes. They were absolutey straight forward and easily done. doesnt mean I passwd them obviously, but I feel absolutely confident in my drawings. Ended that with 30 minutes too (after 15 mins of reviewing) so that's that.
The MC portion was... not what I expected? There was alot more arch history than Ive seen on any oher test. And a ton of ada questions. I almost ran out of time and didnt get to review any marked questions (only incomplete questions) I took more time than normal this time around per question I guess. got a little paniced at the end. So we will see. Im 50/50 on this.
Side story. between 2009 and 2011 my former architectural employer had laid off a lot of people. I had begun working there in 2005 out of college. I was laid off in 2011 and at the same time the company went to an 4 day work week. Long story short after like 6 months of applying for jobs and interviewing (and finding out former coworkers who werent laid off were getting jobs at the firms i was applying/interviewing too) I broadened my job search to general drafting (as i needed to pay bills) and landed at an engineering firm. Were Ive been since. Trying to finally get my license to basically get back to architecture. With that said.. there was a lot of general info stuff I knew like the back of my hand that over the years Ive obviously forgotten due to not using the knowledge day in day out. Or taking said info for granted when I was studying and not retain the knowledge as I was reading it...
So where am I getting with this? Well alot of my concerns on how well I did was the shear amount of general knowledge questions I used to know and have grown foggy and unsure of...
but I digress
So my study materials were
Kaplan
Ballast
Kaplan Q&A
Ballast Q&A
Jennys notes
some various other downloaded info guides
Refresh PPP, CDS, SPD notes
Kaplan Flash Cards
Dorf
ARE 4.0 questions
Desgner Hacks
Thinks I wish I reread
ADA codes
Some sort of Architectural History Book
I could count on 1 hand the amount of graphical type questons I received on this test.
Anyway If i failed im probably gonna switch over to 5.0... I still have bdcs, ss, and sd left and while I have 0 concerns over SD I already failed SS once and I just dont think i can manage to fit the 3 tests in by next June... maybe but idk...