Just Tested

Structural Layout Vignette and Multiple Choice

Just Tested

Postby gogozg » Mon Sep 23, 2013 5:56 pm

Just finished the SS exam 7 pm in Brooklyn. The exam was long.
The most important part of the exam was testing our understanding of basic structural concepts. There were about 20 calculation questions and more than 80 percents of these calculation questions are straight forward. A lot of questions on lateral load.
About 5 questions you had to know history and conventional construction really well.
No turss questions. I had about 30 minutes to go through the marked questions.

Vignette was similar to NCARB sample, maybe slightly more difficult.
Hope this was a pass.

Good luck to you all who are studying the exam.
Special thanks to Coach for having such a great forum!
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Re: Just Tested

Postby mjf185 » Mon Sep 23, 2013 6:55 pm

good luck!
I just tested and my experience was similar....lots o lateral.
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Re: Just Tested

Postby mjf185 » Thu Sep 26, 2013 1:06 pm

ARE40-SS Structural Systems 4.0
PASS

I cannot express how happy this makes me!
I feel shaky just from reading it.

FYI – NCARB sent me an email saying the results were posted online. This was a very quick 1 week turn-around. NCARB has improved
Praise the Lord....seriously....yay!
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Re: Just Tested

Postby gogozg » Thu Sep 26, 2013 5:13 pm

Congrat on your PASS, mjf185!
Enjoy the big relief!
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Re: Just Tested

Postby gogozg » Fri Oct 04, 2013 4:41 am

Just found out that I got the PASS from NCARB website yesterday. I found out the result in the morning at around 9:30am. The notification email was sent to me yesterday afternoon. It took NCARB 8 business day to have the score report. I think this is a good improvement.

Below are my study materials:
Kaplan
Ballast
Kaplan 500 (I ran throught the questions at least 2 times)
Ballast Sample Problems and Practice Exam Book
Prof. Dorf's Vignette solution
Prof. Khatri's videos (http://www.khatrinternational.com/AIAexam.html), I didn't go through all his videos, only the ones that I felt I am weak. They are informative and helpful.
I was thinking taking Prof. Thaddeus online courses, but ended up with not much time before the exam.

I studied 11 weeks. 2 hours per weekdays and 4 hours per weekend days.
Before going to exam, I felt I started to be familiar with the concepts in different categories and their related formulas (how to use them). I think there are still a lot of area that I am not confident in doing calculation. I am very glad that I got a pass. Praise the Lord!

Good luck for you all who are studying!! I am on Building Design and Construction Systems now and 4 more exams to go.
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