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Architectural Registration Exams
Posted on 4/4/18 at 11:08 am
Posted on 4/4/18 at 11:08 am
Anybody on here familiar with these? Recently graduated architecture major and I'm getting ready to start prepping for exams. I've had a few friends already pass and fail a few different ones. Any advice on what to use to study or a particular order to take them in? Thanks.
This post was edited on 4/4/18 at 11:44 am
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Posted on 4/4/18 at 11:10 am to jlovel7
SO is a landscape architect. She had to look at a bunch of plants. That's all I got.
Posted on 4/4/18 at 11:11 am to jlovel7
That you JD?
Posted on 4/4/18 at 11:13 am to jlovel7
Yes... but I'm pretty sure they are different from when I was licensed.
There used to be practice vignettes online, if you still have to do those. They were very useful... and there was a service where you could submit your samples to be scored and reviewed.
Whichever one you think will be hardest, take that one first. I started with Construction Docs & Services. Again, I think they have changed them up since then though.
There used to be practice vignettes online, if you still have to do those. They were very useful... and there was a service where you could submit your samples to be scored and reviewed.
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Any advice on what to use to study or a particular order to take them in?
Whichever one you think will be hardest, take that one first. I started with Construction Docs & Services. Again, I think they have changed them up since then though.
Posted on 4/4/18 at 11:16 am to Teufelhunden
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That you JD?
no but I've met him. He graduates this year. 
Posted on 4/4/18 at 11:28 am to jlovel7
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Recently graduated architect
Unless you have passed your exams, you are not an architect.
Posted on 4/4/18 at 11:44 am to TthomasJR
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Unless you have passed your exams, you are not an architect.
u right. edited.
Posted on 4/4/18 at 11:47 am to jlovel7
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Recently graduated architecture
You're professors can't help you with this? I am an LA and the professors started prepping us for the exam from year 3 on. And I could email them for study material, etc after I graduated.
Posted on 4/4/18 at 11:48 am to jlovel7
I just know a whole bunch of old school architects who get pissed when people say that.
Posted on 4/4/18 at 11:50 am to Zappas Stache
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professors started prepping us for the exam from year 3 on. And I could email them for study material, etc after I graduated.
Might depend on the exams. ARE 5.0 is the new test, so maybe the professors don't have all the applicable information.
I'd find a job, and find a group of coworkers to set up a study group and begin taking the tests. The hardest thing will be signing up for the test because that makes it real.
Posted on 4/4/18 at 12:10 pm to jlovel7
Has IDP/NCARB changed the rules? When I graduated you had to complete IDP before you were eligible to take the ARE.
With that said, I used the flash cards and online vignettes. Working in an office with “real world” practice was what really prepared me....except Structures. I kept my notes from Dr. Shih’s classes and studies them again. No problems passing that section. Thanks, Dr. Shih.
With that said, I used the flash cards and online vignettes. Working in an office with “real world” practice was what really prepared me....except Structures. I kept my notes from Dr. Shih’s classes and studies them again. No problems passing that section. Thanks, Dr. Shih.
Posted on 4/4/18 at 12:14 pm to ArchiTiger
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Thanks, Dr. Shih.
Is he still teaching? He really did a good job of preparing everyone in that regard.
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Has IDP/NCARB changed the rules? When I graduated you had to complete IDP before you were eligible to take the ARE.
I believe they have and you can now take the tests and complete the ICP concurrently. When I graduated and tested, it was the same as you, I had to complete IDP before I could start the ARE.
Posted on 4/4/18 at 12:20 pm to LSUBoo
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Is he still teaching? He really did a good job of preparing everyone in that regard.
No he retired. Hard classes, but definitely got you prepared.
I thought there was rumblings that it would be changed to let graduates take the exam before they finished the IDP. But I thought it was just a few sections like structures and maybe design, didn’t realize it was all of them.
Good for the new graduates. Waiting 3 years after graduating to take the exam, assuming your office worked with you and allowed you to get the required hours in each discipline, was tough.
Posted on 4/4/18 at 12:41 pm to jlovel7
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u right. edited.
I've met hundreds of "engineers" at facilities around Louisiana that don't even have an undergad in engineering. As long as you don't put the letters behind your name you can call yourself whatever you want.
Posted on 4/4/18 at 1:42 pm to TheAlmightySmash
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've met hundreds of "engineers" at facilities around Louisiana that don't even have an undergad in engineering. As long as you don't put the letters behind your name you can call yourself whatever you want.
Not necessarily. Per Title 46, Part 1 paragraph 1527 of the Louisiana Architect’s Licensing Law:
“Unlicensed persons cannot used the term architect, architectural, architecture or anything confusingly similar to indicate that such a person practices or offers to practice architecture, or is rendering architectural services. A person who has obtained a degree in architecture may not use the title graduate architect.”
Posted on 4/4/18 at 2:11 pm to jlovel7
If you are a member of American Institute of Architects you can reach out to your local chapter (AIANOLA or AIABR) and see if they have study material you can check out. I know our chapter has a group called ARE Marathoners who are working to help each other study.
Posted on 4/4/18 at 2:16 pm to Zappas Stache
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I am an LA
Just started studying for the LARE.
Posted on 4/4/18 at 2:46 pm to LSUBoo
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Is he still teaching? He really did a good job of preparing everyone in that regard.
Remember that architecture professor caught at Highland Road Park diddling dicks? He still around?
Last name was F****** or something.
This post was edited on 4/4/18 at 2:50 pm
Posted on 4/4/18 at 2:56 pm to Nocturnal
You can check out study materials from AIABR, but good luck getting them if you wait too long.
Hopefully they've bought more materials to go around.
Hopefully they've bought more materials to go around.
Posted on 4/4/18 at 3:52 pm to DGauTigers
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Just started studying for the LARE.
It's not all that bad. I found test A to be the most difficult, but even then it wasn't too bad. Just lots of memorization of AIA docs and CA procedures, and when you're that young in the profession you don't have all that much hands-on CA experience.
The "new" format is much better than the old format. I was part of the first group that took the new format, so study materials were borderline useless because they were geared towards the old hand-drawn design vignettes. Start saving money now. It gets expensive. There used to be a very helpful Google Group with lots of good study materials that were freely shared.
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