Well if the blackout and the addition of "My Examination" means getting our test results in under a week, as happened with me, then that is certainly a welcome change in my mind!! Received an email today from NCARB "ARE Score Report Available" after only 4 business days. It was a nice big shiny blue "PASS"!! The score report itself sure looks much nicer graphically, but the information provided looks to be pretty much the same to me. Anyway, I will take the very quick news compared to what we are used to.
Once the AREForum is back up, you can see my recap from last week's test, I dont care to retype it. If you get the concepts down, you should be fine on this test. Highly recommend the Kaplan 500 and dont even worry so much about diving into that before you feel well-prepared. The Kaplan 500 will prepare you. Even if you arent clicking with the material after the first read-thru of Kaplan or Ballast, just dive into the practice questions. Practice as many questions as possible-- goes well with pretty much all of these ARE's but especially this one.