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fibes
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كتب: الخميس أغسطس 14th, 2008 03:50 pm |
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On the 25th I'm sitting for GS and I can't seem to get the calculations in my thick skull. It's been 18 years since i've thought about this and although i'm 90% on the Kaplan non-calc related questions I am unable to remember everything involved in every type of moment calc and even some basic ones. I've gone 4 for 4 on the other multiple choice ones but it's looking like I'm about to bomb GS and LF unless I can crack open my thick skull and pour some math in.
Any suggestions?
I really don't want to reschedule since we have a baby due on the 15th of September and they don't mix well with math. 
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Coach
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كتب: الجمعة أغسطس 15th, 2008 11:44 am |
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Can you draw the shear diagrams? If so, moment is simply the area under the curve along the beam. If you're a calculus whiz, it's a piece of cake. Otherwise, do it graphically.
Maybe "summing of moments" rings a bell?
Force x arm?
It will come back to you.
Congratulations on the wee one!
Let's hope it doesn't resemble your avatar!!!
BTW, babies and math? hmmm, let's see.
1 + 1 = 3
Yep! Makes perfect sense.
Good luck!
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Bryan G
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كتب: الجمعة أغسطس 15th, 2008 01:36 pm |
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I feel you Fibes! I rescheduled GS about 3 times because I never thought i was ready. Finally I chained myself to my kitchen table and studyed my butt off for 2 days before the exam (i'm lucky my work allows me to do this and stll get paid!). The only way it started to sink in was to do the Kaplan practice tests over and over till I started to pick up on paterns of what was important, and also what I did or didnt know. I then went back and read and re-read the appropriate section till it sunk in. I took the test yesterday, and honestly if you remember the handful of simple formulas you will be fine..
And besides....if you know the rest of the Kaplan book, and have an ounce of practical experience you will kill the majority of this test...
Good Luck
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fibes
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كتب: الجمعة أغسطس 15th, 2008 02:45 pm |
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THNX, I'm trying to get "big picture" about all this and what seems to be kicking me is that most times I'm missing one small part of the equation which means my basics aren't there. After almost 20 years away from academia and in offices that don't do in house structural I'm paying the price.
I wish static guard worked on statics.
PS Coach the man in the photo is a relative of one of this forums members (not mine) so be careful what you say. She's happy her husband doesn't look like him either. I wish i had his ears.
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mgilman
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| الموقع: | ARCHITEC _, LEED AP, New York USA |
| عدد المواضيع: | 743 |
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كتب: الجمعة أغسطس 15th, 2008 03:14 pm |
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First:
- Deep breath!
With limited time, I'd focus on this:
- Kaplan ch 1 & 2 calcs - from the practice problems, not just the quizzes
- NCARB quiz calcs - try to understand why your answers are wrong/right, and if you don't, ask about it on the forum
- Thaddeus notes at the top of this section of the forum
- practice using the Windows calculator b/c it's similar to the one on the exam, and will reduce your stress level a notch on the calcs
Last but not least,
- post lots of questions here about everything you do not understand!
Good luck, congrats on the upcoming wee one, and don't worry if you have to reschedule to give yourself an extra week of study time or so. It is worth it. I rescheduled 2 or 3 times (I've already forgotten), a week added at a time, and in the end I passed.
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Coach
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كتب: السبت أغسطس 16th, 2008 01:19 am |
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fibes wrote: PS Coach the man in the photo is a relative of one of this forums members (not mine) so be careful what you say. She's happy her husband doesn't look like him either. I wish i had his ears. I know, I recall her post. Small world. I can't recall the guy's story. Didn't he go ape in a courtroom?
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dottie
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| الموقع: | Wasilla, Alaska USA |
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كتب: السبت أغسطس 16th, 2008 06:52 pm |
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Hi fibes,
My story is nothing to brag about, and so the wrong way to do things. But, I skimmed through the books and browsed the forum and skimmed the stuff on the FTP site, printing some of course. No ready studying. It was like reading french, I didn't have a clue.
Went to reschudule my test the day before and was told that I would have to pay full price again, so I decided that am to cram for the next 24 hours. I might as well learn something from it so I can pass next time. (I do not recommend this, and this is so not how to pass an exam)
However, the math was beyond me as well, I hadn't done structures in 15 years or so. I found on the FTP site something someone put together that broke down one of the main formula, step by step, in easy words, it was maybe 3 pages long. Browse the FTP site and find it. Once I understood that one, all the rest, like the moments, etc. just came flooding into my pea brain.
Because I was cramming, I just did all the questions in ALS, Kaplan, the practice CDs and the NCARB sample questions and completely made myself understand the answers, at least 80% of them. I also had Archiflash cards. There were other prints from the FTP site with notes and basic things to know. Good stuff.
I truely went in thinking I would fail. The questions were not that bad and the calculations, I skipped and came back to them. Did the moments, and couple of forces, guessed the really complicated ones. OMG, I passed!
So, if this numbskull can do it, I am sure you will. First, relax, let it flow, don't block the information with worry. Good Luck, you can do it.
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fibes
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كتب: السبت أغسطس 16th, 2008 08:00 pm |
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Thanks Dottie, it is helpful to know others who have been there and have cleared the hurdle.
I should be out on the water fly fishing or hanging with the family but I sit here in this home office killing my brain on a saturday instead. Soon it will be redfish and new baby time and these days will be behind me. 
I've been to the FTP and have printed a lot of it but haven't found the eye opener yet.
I'm printing the "ARE structures PDF right now" it's a "non-users" guide which sounds like me.
Peas,
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fibes
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كتب: الاحد أغسطس 17th, 2008 07:53 pm |
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Made some progress this weekend, it doesn't seem hopeless anymore but I'm putting 10 kips of ^%&* in a 5 kip bag.
I find it odd that the Kaplan test cd material scores me at 80-90% and in the books I hover between 55 and 70% scores. It's mainly the wording that is tripping me up. I figured going 4 for 4 on the other multiple choice tests meant I got the "test taking tricks" down, I guess not.
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dottie
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كتب: الاحد أغسطس 17th, 2008 07:59 pm |
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There you go. Just relax. Don't freak out! Makes it easier to get information in.
Good Luck!
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skyhook
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| الموقع: | BT Or Bust |
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كتب: الاثنين أغسطس 18th, 2008 04:30 pm |
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| Since I procrastinated and left for last my GS and LF sections, i tried skimming and that did not work (particularly for the calculations). The Mikalsi seminar has not only helped, but has made it interesting as well. My mind set has changed, and i have embraced the process of thinking like an engineer (at a pedestrian level, of course). I had to change from "wanting to pass" to "wanting to understand", which ,while no guaranttee of passing, has fundamentally altered my approach to this task. Good luck to all, and i'll let you know how it goes in Oct.
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fibes
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كتب: الاثنين أغسطس 18th, 2008 04:40 pm |
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skyhook wrote: Since I procrastinated and left for last my GS and LF sections, i tried skimming and that did not work (particularly for the calculations). The Mikalsi seminar has not only helped, but has made it interesting as well. My mind set has changed, and i have embraced the process of thinking like an engineer (at a pedestrian level, of course). I had to change from "wanting to pass" to "wanting to understand", which ,while no guaranttee of passing, has fundamentally altered my approach to this task. Good luck to all, and i'll let you know how it goes in Oct.
The plan is if i don't pass this time to go to a seminar approach next time. Having a baby on the way has forced my hand and I want to be able to re-take (if needed) before i am called on to work a huge music festival here in March. It's all about timing unfortunately.
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architraz
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كتب: الاثنين أغسطس 18th, 2008 08:39 pm |
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mgilman - what are the ncarb quiz calcs you speak of? i told myself i have to get at least a 70 on the practice exams today if i'm not going to reschedule my friday exam! crammer time.
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ides
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كتب: الاثنين أغسطس 18th, 2008 09:33 pm |
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Chapters 9 and 10 (if I remember correctly) are more of an overview of the material, without calculations, so you could consider starting there. Seemed to me that they should have been at the front of the book.
My test is on Wednesday and I still feel like I have a long way to go. I'm still not comfortable with many of the calculations. . . the text really throws them at you in (it seems to me) a fairly ineffectively structured manner. Trying to attack Archiflash and the Kaplan Q&A book now, but work has been almost all-consuming the last few days.
Also trying to beat a baby (that sounds bad, but you get the idea), though mine is in December, so I'm trying to get my last four tests done before then
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fibes
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كتب: الاثنين أغسطس 18th, 2008 10:00 pm |
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ides wrote: Chapters 9 and 10 (if I remember correctly) are more of an overview of the material, without calculations, so you could consider starting there. Seemed to me that they should have been at the front of the book.
Yeah, they throw the daunting stuff at you first without all of the basics in the Kaplan book, i think i was stuck from page 4-8 for like a week before I said... and just went past the calcs for a while.
I think the concepts of moment calcs are sinking in here and some of the others are as well but what I'm most concerned about is seeing very different scenarios on the test and not being able to adapt. Hopefully I won't feel the warm feeling of peeing myself when all of the calc illustrations look like new age astrology charts written by a drunk hippy on mushrooms and mimeographed on a machine 40 times before being scanned by an ancient fax machine and inserted in the test like the ME illustrations.
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skyhook
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كتب: الاثنين أغسطس 18th, 2008 10:17 pm |
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| "... I won't feel the warm feeling of peeing myself". Isn't that the exam room etiquette forum ?, but I do hear your pain, I have been hyperventilating structural shrapnel for 6 weeks. This test will all be in our rear view mirrors soon !!!!!!!
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ides
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كتب: الثلاثا أغسطس 19th, 2008 05:39 am |
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Studying hard tonight, and I think I can safely say that Q&A book is extremely helpful in helping organize the jumble of equations and information from the main Kaplan text, which can be quite overwhelming at times, and left me not feeling so great about my GS future. I worked the first 100 questions and did quite poorly, but by carefully reading through the explanations and reworking most of the math problems, it's starting to come together much better now.
A long way still to go in the next 34 hours, though.
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skyhook
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كتب: الثلاثا أغسطس 19th, 2008 04:06 pm |
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| is it safe to assume that LF is an easier task compared to GS ?
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mgilman
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كتب: الثلاثا أغسطس 19th, 2008 04:29 pm |
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skyhook wrote: is it safe to assume that LF is an easier task compared to GS ?
I wish this were true.
I studied harder for GS than any other exam, faced more challenges, shed more tears - passed - and then found LF to be even harder.
Maybe it's because I only had about a week or so to study for LF and had sick kids at home...maybe it's because I had a particularly hard LF exam...I had 3x as many calculations on LF than on GS, and many more obscurely worded questions.
I think that in studying for LF, it seemed it would be easier than GS, BUT IT WAS NOT - much harder!
Still waiting to hear my LF results, any day now!
اخر تعديل في الثلاثا أغسطس 19th, 2008 04:30 pm بواسطة mgilman
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كتب: الثلاثا أغسطس 19th, 2008 05:07 pm |
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fibes wrote: PS Coach the man in the photo is a relative of one of this forums members . . .
Are you serious? There's a relative of Phil Spector in the forum?
. . . pretty cool.
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skyhook
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كتب: الثلاثا أغسطس 19th, 2008 05:07 pm |
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| ...and the hits just keep on coming...oh well, i have decided to complete my GS study/test (since I have so much time in it) and then jump back over to BT, since I just realized the harsh conequence that awaits if I don't pass BT before june 09(4.0). Thanks for the info.
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skyhook
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كتب: الثلاثا أغسطس 19th, 2008 05:09 pm |
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icarusburns wrote: fibes wrote: PS Coach the man in the photo is a relative of one of this forums members . . .
Are you serious? There's a relative of Phil Spector in the forum?
. . . pretty cool.
fibes, keep my secret (no gun ...errr... pun intended)
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كتب: الاربعا أغسطس 20th, 2008 02:01 pm |
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| I just wanted to thank everyone in this feed for their feedback, particularly fibes for sharing the difficulties you are having. I feel as if I am in the exact same boat. I am just finishing up reading through the Kaplan and Ballast study guides, and although I understand the concepts and sample problems as they're being presented, when it comes to solving the problems myself, I get so completely muddled and confused I shut down. I hope to spend the next 2 weeks or so going through practice problems and rereading my notes in the hope that I pass. I too have a baby on the way and really want to finish by the end of September. Thanks for all the advice everyone has shared so far, and anything else anyone can add would be great!
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كتب: الاربعا أغسطس 20th, 2008 02:10 pm |
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For those with kids, or babies on the way - I wholeheartedly congratulate and support you on this adventure. If you are looking for moral support, I can tell you I found it in spades on the forum when I was stuck on Structures. The people who wrote to help out when I was stuck made all the difference.
I'll post their comments (and mine) here so you can benefit from their sage advice on getting unstuck on GS:
http://www.areforum.org/forums/forum10/51534.html
Good Luck!
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fibes
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كتب: الاربعا أغسطس 20th, 2008 02:46 pm |
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Woo Hooo I just got my PASS on Building Planning! That makes three Passes from last month and three passes to go.
Why do I still feel like GS/LF is equal to 40 tests?
I think i'm going to push back LF a week or two so i can drop that from my focus until after GS.
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كتب: الاربعا أغسطس 20th, 2008 02:53 pm |
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mgilman wrote: skyhook wrote: is it safe to assume that LF is an easier task compared to GS ?
I wish this were true.
I studied harder for GS than any other exam, faced more challenges, shed more tears - passed - and then found LF to be even harder.
Maybe it's because I only had about a week or so to study for LF and had sick kids at home...maybe it's because I had a particularly hard LF exam...I had 3x as many calculations on LF than on GS, and many more obscurely worded questions.
I think that in studying for LF, it seemed it would be easier than GS, BUT IT WAS NOT - much harder!
Still waiting to hear my LF results, any day now!
I agree 100% with mgilman. I too, thought LF was more difficult than GS. I took LF three weeks after passing GS hoping that there would be a large amount of overlap only to find that many of the questions were worded different than any of the study material that I was using. In addition, I actually had MORE calculations in LF than I did for GS. By far, I guessed on more questions than any other exam. I walked out of the test center feeling very discouraged, expecially since it was my last exam.......
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fibes
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| تاريخ الالتحاق: | الاثنين أبريل 28th, 2008 |
| الموقع: | Architect, Georgia USA |
| عدد المواضيع: | 221 |
| Exams Taken: | PD, GS, LF, ME, BD/MM, CD, SP, BP, BT | | Exams Passed: | PD, GS, LF, ME, BD/MM, CD, SP, BP, BT | | Describes Me: | Architect, musician, producer, nut job. |
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كتب: الخميس أغسطس 21st, 2008 12:14 am |
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I think I've made up my mind to push the tests back a month and take an online course to help break my mind loose.
Skyhook (and whoever),
I'm thinking of the Mitalski seminar so i can be done with this once; is the math part covered from the basics all the way up?
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skyhook
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| تاريخ الالتحاق: | السبت مارس 15th, 2008 |
| الموقع: | BT Or Bust |
| عدد المواضيع: | 1021 |
| Exams Taken: | PD, GS, LF, ME, BD/MM, CD, SP, BP, BT | | Exams Passed: | PD, GS, LF, ME, BD/MM, CD, SP, BP | | Describes Me: | support where beam or wall not available |
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كتب: الخميس أغسطس 21st, 2008 02:22 am |
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I am 1/2 way thru Mikaski, and the equations have just started. His explanations coupled with his example sketching has given me considerable insight that the book work could not offer. I recommend the book work study first and then the seminar to bring it home. He is a gifted instructor who walks you thru step by step in a sequence that builds base concepts and confidence. He is pursuing arch licensure as well, so has recently taken the struct exam portions.
He states that he has a 92% success rate for his students passing GS.....here's to avoiding the 8% bracket. best of luck to all.
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Steve Johnson
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| تاريخ الالتحاق: | السبت يونيو 16th, 2007 |
| الموقع: | North Carolina USA |
| عدد المواضيع: | 516 |
| Exams Taken: | PD, GS, LF, ME, BD/MM, CD, SP, BP, BT | | Exams Passed: | PD, GS, LF, ME, BD/MM, CD, SP, BP, BT | | Describes Me: | I am uh r k tek |
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