Best study materials for the Architectural Registration Exam?

Question

I am preparing to take my A.R.E. and have been studying. I know there are study guides on the market, but are any of them useful, or would I just be wasting more money?

Answer 1

am doing the same thing, so far am using the KAPLAN study guides. visit this forum you will get a lot more help and you can post questions related to this topic.
www.areforum.org
hope this will help.

Answer 2

The 2 biggest sources of study material for the Architect exam are put out by 2 different publishers, Kaplan and PPI publishers, the latter written by Kent Ballast. Reading both Kaplan and Ballast were always the first place I started studying for each exam and I used them both pretty extensively.

Internet forums often debate one over the other. In my experiences I learned you really need both to get a holistic view of information required for each test. I read both books for all 6 divisions of the multiple choice exams. Often one book proved to be more helpful than the other, depending on the subject matter. For each test topic, one book usually seemed too general while the other too overly detailed, so it was helpful to cross reference between them. Using both gave me a more holistic view of each exam.

The Ballast book costs $250+/- for all 7 tests and the complete Kaplan ARE 4.0 costs $999.00. You can buy the Kaplan study guides in each 7 individual subjects, but you cannot do this with the Ballast book. My recommendation would be to purchase the Ballast book and buy the individual Kaplan study books used, and resell them after you pass each test. You’ll find it more economical, and easier to carry on the lonely walk to go study.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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