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3日前

Thank you! Building your own cheat sheets off the episodes is a smart approach. The act of writing it down yourself does more for retention than reading someone else's summary ever will.

Glad the Architect Exam Podcast is giving you good material to work from. Good luck with your exams.

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5日前

Courtney, it's been great having you in ARE Boot Camp. You're almost there.

The why is the part a lot of study material skips, and it's the part that actually makes the content stick. Memorizing a rule gets you nowhere if you don't understand what problem it exists to solve. Pair that with analogies and a study guide to reinforce it, and suddenly the material has somewhere to live in your head.

Glad that combination is working for you. Go finish this thing.

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6日前

Stephanie, the one-topic-per-video setup is intentional. It lets you go deep on something without an hour-long commitment, and it makes it easy to come back to a single concept later.

The drawings do a lot of work for exactly the reason you described. When focus is hard, having something visual to anchor to changes everything. Glad the information is sticking.

Good luck with the NCIDQ.

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2026年10月18日

Lorena, congratulations on passing CE! It was a pleasure having you in ARE Boot Camp and you earned that one.

The big picture piece is everything. When you understand how the parts of a project actually connect, the details stop feeling like a list of facts to memorize and start making sense on their own.

You followed the plan and did the work. Go get the next one.

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2026年10月18日

Tyler, it's been great having you in ARE Boot Camp. Glad the support has been there when you needed it.

Picking up the CDT along the way is a smart move. The material overlaps with the pro practice divisions more than people expect, so the work you put into one pays off in the other.

Excited to see you keep moving forward. Let's go.

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2026年10月15日

Taydee, it was a pleasure having you in ARE Boot Camp. You worked hard and it showed.

Examples and images do a lot of heavy lifting. A concept you can picture is a concept you'll actually remember when it counts. Glad that approach made the process feel more manageable.

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2026年10月14日

Laura, that's a smart way to use them. Keeping earlier topics warm while you move on to new material is one of the hardest parts of studying for these exams, and a quick reference is exactly the right tool for it.

Glad the study notes are working that way for you. Good luck with your exams.

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2026年10月13日

Fahim, thank you. Plain language is something we work hard at. These concepts are complicated enough on their own without dense writing making them harder.

You're taking on the ARE in a second language, which is no small thing. Glad our materials are helping. Keep going.

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2026年10月11日

Thank you! Honest is a word we're proud to see in a review. Glad it's been a good experience so far. Good luck with your exams.

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2026年10月9日

Zoli, this is thoughtful feedback and it's obvious you're deep in the material right now. That kind of engagement is exactly what gets people across the finish line.

Let me clear up how our materials are structured, because there are two separate things here.

The ten-question quizzes at the end of each Architect Exam Podcast episode exist for one purpose: confirming you understood the content you just absorbed.

The leveled practice questions, Level 1 through Level 3, live inside our ARE 101 courses. Comparing either one against NCARB's questions isn't apples to apples. Our practice questions are a teaching tool, training wheels in a safe environment where you learn to apply a concept before facing it under pressure. We're not trying to replicate NCARB's style, and that's by design.

On the landscape topics, we do cover grading inside our ARE 101 courses. Landscape irrigation is a different animal. It typically falls outside an architect's scope of work as a system that doesn't impact health, safety, and welfare.

Building plumbing systems are another story entirely, and we go deep there. We recently built out a lot of new plumbing content inside Building Systems 101 and I'm genuinely proud of how it turned out. Worth a look if you haven't seen it.

We'll also consider some of these other topics as future podcast ideas.

Keep putting in the work. You're building something real here and it's going to pay off.

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2026年10月9日

Maryson, thank you!

Tying everything back to the Architect's Handbook of Professional Practice is something we're very intentional about.

A lot of ARE exam prep positions itself as a replacement for the AHPP. We go the other way. If your goal is to get through the ARE efficiently without wasting time, money, or energy, learning how to actually use the AHPP is the fastest route.

There's a bigger reason too.

Getting comfortable navigating a dense technical reference is a skill that pays off well beyond the exam. It carries you into the technical exam divisions.

And later into your career, when you're a licensed architect facing a complicated construction problem and the answer is buried somewhere in a thousand-page specification. Sifting through complex information to find what you need is part of the job.

Teaching people how to read like an architect is something we've always been proud of.

Glad the content is keeping you engaged. Thanks for recommending us. That really means a lot to me and the whole team.

-Michael

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2026年10月9日

Kristen, the studio comparison is spot on. Nobody got through architecture school alone and the ARE shouldn't be any different.

You also said the thing that matters most: the program is full of information but you still have to put in the work. That's true no matter which platform someone picks, and you've been putting in that work consistently.

Really enjoyed our call. We've got a solid plan for the rest of the year and I'm excited to get you into the technical side. Keep going. You've made more progress than you probably give yourself credit for.

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2026年10月7日

Zinnet, working full time and raising a little one while studying for the ARE is a lot. Anyone who's done it knows how hard that juggle is.

That's exactly why we keep the Architect Exam Podcast free. Not everyone has hours to sit down with a textbook, but most people can find twenty minutes while the house is quiet. Glad the episodes and study notes are working for you.

Keep going. You're doing great.

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2026年10月6日

Deborah, it's been great having you in ARE Boot Camp. You're getting close to the finish line now.

The analogies are something we lean on hard because a concept you can picture is a concept you'll remember on exam day. Glad they're landing for you.

Reach out anytime you want to talk strategy. My door is always open.

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2026年10月6日

Jose, congratulations on passing CE on your first try! One week after bootcamp ended is exactly the kind of momentum we want people to walk out with.

Three decades of putting it off, and now you're rolling. That takes real guts to start.

The part about understanding the WHY instead of going on gut feeling and work experience is the whole thing right there. Experience alone doesn't get people through these exams. You have to know the reasoning behind the answer, and it sounds like that clicked for you.

Also, I love that the study log turned into a competition for you. Whatever works.

Thank you for being one of our biggest cheerleaders. You're always showing up in the comments and it means a lot. Excited to have you back for Technical Boot Camp.

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2026年10月6日

Leigh Ann, two first-try passes is excellent. You put in the work during Pro Practice and it paid off exactly like it should have.

The friendships part is my favorite thing about this. People come in for the study plan and leave with a group of colleagues who actually have their back. That network sticks around long after the exams are done.

Thank you for always spreading the word about ARE Boot Camp. Now go get CE.

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2026年10月6日

Hemila, using the episodes to help clients understand the why behind design decisions is a use case we didn't plan for but absolutely love. The ADA bathroom example is perfect. Those standards exist for real reasons and explaining that well is half the job.

Noted on the construction activities episode request. That's a good one and it's going on the list.

Thanks for recommending us to your coworkers.

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2026年10月5日

It's been a pleasure having you in ARE Boot Camp. You work hard and it shows. Glad the podcast and the program are both pulling their weight for you. Keep going.