According to my results letter from NCARB my reasons for failure for Schematic Design only stem from my performance in the interior layout vignette. My letter does not indicate ANY (meaning minor or major) deficiencies in the building layout vignette. That’s good. (I didn’t fail everywhere.) Everything I wrote about doing wrong in the building layout, either I didn’t do, or I didn’t do it enough for it to matter. This is good for me to know for the retake of this exam. It doesn’t mean I (or you) can make what I thought were errors. It just means what I thought were errors may not be as wrong as getting what I got right.
You got that? I probably did more right than wrong on the building layout. And what I may have done wrong, either wasn’t wrong at all or wasn’t significant enough to be considered a “minor” or “major deficiency”. Thus considered a minor or major deficiency, the vignette and as a result my exam would be a fail. As it stands my Schematic Design exam is a fail only due to one vignette, the interior layout.
Let me speak on that a little more. For example, I thought my rooms were too small in the building layout vignette. Maybe the computer scored the room areas within the acceptable threshold of the correct size. I don’t know how many of my rooms erred on the side of too small. I don’t know the scoring level of acceptance applied to too small and too large a room area or even if too small is penalized greater than too big an area. Which is what I thought, but perhaps I’m wrong. Geez. All I know is my fail letter doesn’t claim “minor” or “major” deficiencies exist on my building layout. I still recommend staying aware of my prior mistakes regarding the building layout vignette.
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