Since my last post, I’ve focused on reading the ARE Review Manual and rescheduled my Building Design and Construction Systems (BDCS) exam. I’ve finished reading four chapters (Site Work, Concrete, Masonry and Metals). There are 13 chapters in the ARE Review Manual for BDCS. Three of those chapters are for the vignettes, so that means I have 10 chapters to read. The vignette chapters are much smaller and I should look at those while practicing. This weekend hopefully I can get in two more chapters, and I hope to be more than half way through my reading.
I’m reading a little over 3 hours about every other day. I haven’t read anything on the past two weekends, only during the week. I’m packing in most of one chapter in the initial sitting and then trying my best to finish the chapter off in the next sitting.
I rescheduled BDCS for early May, 2009. I would have liked a date in late May, but no weekend appointments were available. There is a test center near my home that has Sunday appointments. I rescheduled for the first available Sunday appointment. With this down economy, it is important for me to be in the office during the week. I may even reschedule my next exams, because I no longer want to take those Mondays off. If I’m going to do this I need to make up my mind soon, or I’ll have to wait even longer for an open Sunday appointment.
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