WELCOME to the DPS ARE BLOG...

The Intern Development Committee at DPS has decided to provide a tool for all the interns within the firm to share their experiences in preparing for the ARE and any other professional exam you may be required to take on our roads to licensure, certification or any sort of continuing education. Please abide by the Confidentiality Agreement (at side bar) when it comes to discussing any portion of the actual exam, for more information on what is considered "helping" and what is considered "cheating" see below:

"Helping” means:

• Sharing what study guides you used;
• Discussing concepts highlighted in study material;
• Reviewing graphic solutions to the NCARB Practice Program and noting obvious errors;
• Supporting each other and celebrating each other’s success.
  

“Cheating” means, quite simply, discussing with others anything that you saw on your exam. This includes:

• Identifying terms or concepts contained in exam questions;
• Sharing answers to questions you had on your exam;
• Referring others to “check out” information you saw on your exam;
• Identifying program elements including building names, building heights, setbacks, parking requirements, etc… and code requirements from your graphic vignettes;
• Asking others to repost content that has been removed from the ARE Forum, or any other web site.

For more on this issue go to http://www.ncarb.org/are/areletter.html and read up.

This BLOG will hopefully become a way for those who have taken all or some of the exams to share their experiences in preparing for the exams with those who may just be starting to take the exams.

Now lets get to work and get licenced...