Programming & Analysis (PA) ARE 5.0 Mock Exam (Architect Registration Exam): ): ARE 5.0 Overview, Exam Prep Tips, Hot Spots, Case Studies, Drag-and-Place, Solutions and Explanations

This book is total BS. It is just a money making scheme. Other than the case study, this is just a copy paste of questions from his other books. There are not new questions (except maybe one or two). I have been studying for PA using the PPP and SPD chen books and as soon as I opened this book, I thought I had the wrong book open because the questions are EXACTLY the same. If you do not have the other books, I suppose this is a good comprehensive study if you are looking for more practice tests. If you already have the other books or feel comfortable with the quiz questions you have available for studying, DO NOT buy this book. I thought it was overpriced to begin with, but taking lots of different quizzes helps me study so I decided to get it...big mistake. I am returning. If you are looking for a practice case study, go to the NCARB website.

For almost $80 this book gets 1 star. Questions are extremely superficial, context is vague and answers are horrific. Saying A is correct because B, C and D are incorrect is not a valid explanation. Maybe this was made for ARE 4.0 but it's even not close to 5.0. There is no relevance to the real exam and the contents do not match the reality of ARE.

Honestly, if it weren't for the scarcity of ARE practice exams, I wouldn't waste my money on it. There are some valuable questions but there are also blatant and underhanded tricks. So... buy it, take it, but accept your score with a grain of salt.

Straight to the point tells you what to study and how to study

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