ARE 5.0: PPD study guide

Project Planning & Design (PPD) is one division of ARE 5.0, the Architect Registration Examination that NCARB publishes for candidates working toward an architecture license. It sits at the point in a project where a written program must become a buildable scheme, so the material is integrative rather than narrowly technical: site and environmental context, the codes and regulations that constrain a layout, the selection and coordination of building systems, materials and assemblies, the marriage of program requirements with those systems, and the cost and budget consequences of early design moves. NCARB delivers ARE 5.0 to candidates testing with PSI and publishes an ARE 5.0 Guidelines document described as including exam policies and scheduling instructions; that document, not a third-party summary, is the authority on current item counts, appointment length, scoring, fees, and retake rules. NCARB also maintains pages for ARE 5.0 question types, free practice exams, and a candidate community, all reachable from its Pass the ARE section. The ARE 5.0: PPD study guide has 5 sections and about 1,980 words.