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mylittlepony77
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Posted: Sun Sep 14th, 2008 04:03 pm |
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Hi Guys. So, I have been studying for a month for this one. I started immediately after taking my previous test which was BT back on August 9 (btw. still dont have results on that one).
Back in spring I studied perhaps 5 weeks for CD and then 3 weeks for PD. But I was confident enough to sign up for both after the 3rd week of CD study.
Here I am on week 5 of MM and don't see an end to it! This is just a sanity check to see if perhaps I am being too anal or is the material just much broader?
Granted, this is also stuff I actually want to REMEMBER after I pass, pretty useful things. But hey, there is many more exams in front of me before 4.0 kicks in.
So, any advice on how to wrap this baby up would be appreciated.
Cheers and happy studying.
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GT Trinity
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Posted: Tue Sep 16th, 2008 12:04 am |
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I want to know the same things...
Do I read enitire PD,CD Kaplan guides, ME as well
Or just make sure I know everything on the read over list. I know this doesn't help as I am asking more than I am sahring.
But find the readover "redrover" list, also download as much as you can from the FTP site..
Also for CD's what did you use just Kaplan or did you read AIA documents as well..
Thanks
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QUIKSILVER
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Posted: Tue Sep 16th, 2008 06:19 pm |
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mylittlepony77 wrote: Hi Guys. So, I have been studying for a month for this one. I started immediately after taking my previous test which was BT back on August 9 (btw. still dont have results on that one).
Back in spring I studied perhaps 5 weeks for CD and then 3 weeks for PD. But I was confident enough to sign up for both after the 3rd week of CD study.
Here I am on week 5 of MM and don't see an end to it! This is just a sanity check to see if perhaps I am being too anal or is the material just much broader?
Granted, this is also stuff I actually want to REMEMBER after I pass, pretty useful things. But hey, there is many more exams in front of me before 4.0 kicks in.
So, any advice on how to wrap this baby up would be appreciated.
Cheers and happy studying.
After reading all the great stuff about this list in the past few days.....I believe if you based your studies on the 'Redrover Master List' (shortcut below), you'll be good to go once you feel comfortable with the items denoted on this list:
http://www.areforum.org/forums/forum5/50692.html
This will be the basis for my studies, and I've taken this exam 3-4 times already....however I'm only giving myself 2 weeks to study for this one again....
But I never knew about this list til now...so hopefully it will make all the difference in the world....but we'll see...
HOpe that helps,
Q..
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QUIKSILVER
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Posted: Tue Sep 16th, 2008 06:23 pm |
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GT Trinity wrote: I want to know the same things...
Do I read enitire PD,CD Kaplan guides, ME as well
Or just make sure I know everything on the read over list. I know this doesn't help as I am asking more than I am sahring.
But find the readover "redrover" list, also download as much as you can from the FTP site.. -- I agree
Also for CD's what did you use just Kaplan or did you read AIA documents as well..
-- I highly recommend you review the AIA doc's for CD exam.
Thanks
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GT Trinity
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Posted: Tue Sep 16th, 2008 11:51 pm |
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Hey quik silver
thanks for the response..
I want to know I hope this doesn't give me even more of the hee bee gibbees
but did you say you took the actual exam 4 times already?!
I am going to faint!!!
Last edited on Tue Sep 16th, 2008 11:51 pm by GT Trinity
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QUIKSILVER
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Posted: Wed Sep 17th, 2008 12:52 am |
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GT Trinity wrote: Hey quik silver
thanks for the response..
I want to know I hope this doesn't give me even more of the hee bee gibbees
but did you say you took the actual exam 4 times already?!
I am going to faint!!!
This will be my 3rd or 4th run......
Yup...I suck.....j/k....
Cheers (I'll pass this time..),
Q..
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GT Trinity
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Posted: Wed Sep 17th, 2008 07:00 pm |
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no you don't ! you're going to get it just under wire b4 6/2009!!!!
I think we both took BT together also (are are you going to take it now...) b'c I saw you in the BT forum
My results should be back by November
Best of luck to you and everyone incl. myself!!!!
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QUIKSILVER
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Posted: Wed Sep 17th, 2008 08:27 pm |
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GT Trinity wrote: no you don't ! you're going to get it just under wire b4 6/2009!!!! -- That would be nice...
I think we both took BT together also (are are you going to take it now...) b'c I saw you in the BT forum -- Just took it last week.....I'm waiting too...
My results should be back by November
Best of luck to you and everyone incl. myself!!!! -- GOod luck...
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mylittlepony77
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Posted: Wed Sep 17th, 2008 09:02 pm |
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Thanks Guys for responding. I printed out some ftp stuff. Before I was studying for the knowledge. Now I am switching to "pass the exam" strategy, learning all this useless crap, manholes etc.
To be honest with you, I am pretty sick of studying, and I am only at #4! The more I study, the less I want to be an architect. At least a licensed one. I dont know why. All this stuff an architect is supposed to know... And other stuff, things at work, so overwhelming. Pretty complex profession we chose, for better and for worse.
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GT Trinity
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Posted: Sat Sep 20th, 2008 01:39 pm |
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Hey pony, I felt the same way the other day becoming overwhelmed by it all studying for MM
all the other exams I've taken seemed straight forward as far as study material...but when I failed LF I felt crappy! Because I put so much effort into studying...we all do...
Anyway am pushing on in the face of this blizzard!
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mylittlepony77
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Posted: Mon Sep 29th, 2008 05:10 am |
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Have been studying for 7 weeks. Still two more weeks to go, I am afraid. Is this Allen book really crucial?
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GT Trinity
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Posted: Mon Sep 29th, 2008 04:05 pm |
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I've just started my 5th week, dude...am hoping to finish writing notes from Kaplan by end of this week, then start on sustainability notes, then go through Archiflash MM ( 3rd time), review CD Archiflash cards again, went through once this weekend knew about 1/4 of cards (UGH!!!)
I am just going to focus on CD and not PD because I just won't finish...hopefully I can get by without focusing too much on PD
The way I figure it if everyone's been saying the test is generallly 50% MM, the rest sustainability or CD's then that's the route I'm focusing on... or else I'll go nuts trying to get through all this stuff....
I am also crossing things off the master list as I learn/am comfortable with them
Dude I hope we pass!!
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gracecol
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Posted: Mon Sep 29th, 2008 04:48 pm |
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Same here. This will be only my 3th week of study, but on my plan I have at least 6 weeks.
I already took PD and CD, so I would have to review those only 1 or 2 days worth of reading my notes.
I'm using Ballast and Allen at the same time, i.e Metals part, but I think sometimes Ballast is too much technical stuff, so when I feel I can't get the concept, I read Kaplan for that part.
And then at the same time I check Ching (Bldg Const Illustrated) and see graphs to get the idea better.
Well, I hope we all pass!
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