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This is a report from Tatyana Aksamentova on the ARE 5.0 Community. She passed the ARE Exam 2, Practice Management, in 1 month, studying 30 hours total. Her main strategy was creating her own study guide. Her other advice would be to read the Architect’s Handbook of Professional Practice closely, and take Practice Management and …
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Summary This is a post by Patrick Edwards in the ARE 5.0 Community. He studied for about 5 weeks and about 100 hours, after already studying for practice management. His general study tips are to study materials from multiple companies, set goals, and use audio to study when you can’t study written stuff. He advises …
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Intro to the ARE Exam 2 If I had to describe the ARE Exam 2, I’d describe it as a somewhat difficult exam pretending to be a really difficult one. The ARE Exam 2 is harder than the ARE Exam 1, in part because it contains a lot of the material from the ARE Exam …
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Summary This is a post from Christian Lemon from the ARE 5.0 Community. He reviewed Ballast’s ARE 5.0 Review Manual and did their practice problems. He also read Professional Practice: A Guide to Turning Designs into Buildings and watched the Schiff Hardin lectures. He advises everyone to know their financials and basic accounting. He spent …
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This is a post from Patrick Edwards from the ARE 5.0 community. He mentions that he first made the mistake of just reading the Architect’s Handbook of Professional Practice back-to-back, but didn’t find it helpful. What he found helpful instead were these 6 steps over the course of a month: Start by familiarizing himself using …
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Summary This is a report from Scott Barber on the ARE 5.0 Community. To study, he scheduled exams 1, 2, 3 in 5 weeks, after already taking 4, 5, and 6. He studied for an hour each day. He used the Architect’s Handbook of Professional Practice and the Schiff Hardin lectures. He advises people to …
Intro to the ARE Exam 1 If I had to describe the ARE Exam 1, I’d describe it as an easy exam pretending to be a difficult one. It’s easy because the topics on the ARE are not difficult and the questions aren’t particularly challenging. The ARE looks difficult, though, because it’s poorly organized. The …
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There’s a pretty extraordinary clip that I saw on Twitter the other day of Angela Merkel discussing the R0 of COVID-19 in Germany. In it, she explains that R0 is how many people, on average, that an infected person transmits the virus to before they recover. If R0 is greater than 1, the number of …
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*edited to be more clear about relationship between shedding and contagiousness Recently, there’s been scientific and media attention on how people can spread COVID-19 without showing symptoms. This is obviously a public health threat. However, this is also something that really should not be news. Most infectious viruses can be spread without people showing symptoms. …
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After writing my last post on why humans keep getting deadly viruses from bats, I got some interesting questions on why some viruses cross over from animals but most do not. What needs to happen for a virus to start infecting humans? Or, perhaps more pertinently, what new viruses do we need to worry about …
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