Architecture involves sketching. Sketching is quicker, easier and more thought out when done on physical paper.
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KATHRYN EDWARDS
5 years ago
Please do better.
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Logan Ziegler
5 years ago
We are future architects. We think through our hands with pen and paper. To deny test takers the ability to think with their hands denies how we are educated, and how humans have evolved to think and solve problems. The digital medium of scratch paper is not an equivalent replacement as a thinking tool.
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Daniela Rey
5 years ago
We went to architecture school because we appreciate the Mother of the arts and Think through a Process of Hand Sketching. It is hard to believe we will be asked to only think and process through the computer without allowing our brains to warm up through the pencil in order to obtain the right answer. This disrupts the entirety of An Architectural Design Exam, in my opinion. This will only make it more difficult for those who have troubles passing Standardized exams. We ask you to please re consider the general public. We ask you to consider some of us are doing these exams for the passion of Architecture in order to make Design better in the future. It is not a simple Choose the best answer. It is a struggle, it takes years. It is our life until we execute them.
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Sean Murphy
5 years ago
This is a bad decision. My connection at my testing center is slow enough as it is. Now I have to use an additional tool that is slow and lacks flexibility? In the middle of a pandemic? Why are you making an already difficult situation more difficult?
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Danielle Anderson
5 years ago
I understand the security issue with using scratch paper online, but do not understand why this would also be the case for those testing in person. Please reconsider this change.
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Matt Smith
5 years ago
This should not be a dispute. Scratch paper should be a must in both online and in person exams.
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Dylan Russ
5 years ago
There is simply not enough room on a screen to write and use a digital blackboard. Id say the screens at the proctoring center are 2/3 the size of ONE of my 2 screens at work. Unless you plan on providing every test taker ipads to write on this is simply ridiculous. I am supposed to work out an equation on a digital format?! Have you ever done that- its extremely difficult. And takes a ridiculous amount of time. I write and take notes as I am taking the test, its criticle for me. Most of us are learn and process tactilely. I already struggle with the digital format. Wouldnt it be easier to scan/photograph our scrap paper and show video proof of its destruction?
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kevin White
5 years ago
Doing away with scratch paper is a horrible idea. how are we to work out math problems with a mouse!?!?!?!
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Jamil Williams
5 years ago
Do not agree with this idea
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Alina
5 years ago
Physical scratch paper is a MUST!!!!
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Leah Underwood
5 years ago
The CEO of NCARB needs to resign. So does senior staff at NCARB. You cannot play with people's lives this way while collecting millions in a profession you KNOW NOTHING ABOUT.
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Emily
5 years ago
This is devastating. I cannot organize my thoughts without using my hand to write them down in a QUICK manor. Everyone in the profession has a sketchbook / notebook with them during all office hours to take notes / draw out ideas, why should this be any different- isn't the purpose of this exam to have more of a connect to the professional work day. In the LEAST- provide us with a 1:1 solution with a stylus and digital notebook.
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Bradley Shapiro
5 years ago
Having scratch paper for exams is essential, and I can't see any viable reason for getting rid of it.
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Timothy Widman
5 years ago
Scrap paper is a necessary part of organizing thoughts and developing solutions. To move this to a screen operated via mouse is senseless and ultimately unnatural to the way anyone would function in the profession.
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Rogelio Rodriguez
5 years ago
A scratch piece of paper is important for the exam. It’s what we do in practice. We don’t work out a solution on a computer, it starts with a pen and paper always.
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Karin Schierhold
5 years ago
Like may ARE test takers, I rely on scratch paper to frame out math problems, take notes, and sketch solutions to graphic problems. As a left-handed person who uses a mouse with my right hand, using a digital white board to sketch, draw, or calculate will be next to impossible and take considerable valuable time. Why make this test logistically harder when its supposed to asses our practical competency.
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Kristen Horlick
5 years ago
The scratch paper is essential! Flipping back and forth between so many tabs, is very time consuming and in these exams every second counts. Time is already so extremely limited. Being able to jot down notes, rather than constantly having to refer back to the scenario is the only saving grace when it comes to the case studies. Being able to write down a math problem is also a necessity. Architects are visual people. On many occasions I've sketched out a problem in order to visualize it... this would be impossible without the scratch paper. We already have to fight with a slow computer rather than being able to easily flip through a set of plans as we can in the "real world" and have to use a computer calculator, which I find extremely irksome, but now we are somehow expected to take notes on the computer too? This is absurd. I thought the exam was supposed to mimic scenarios that architects face every day. An architect would never be expected to complete their job without a piece of paper to write and sketch on. Never! Please stay true to the profession. What harm can possibly come from a blank piece of paper? You have already made the 5.0 exams far more complicated than 4.0, please do not take the scratch paper away from us too!
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Renee Bilodeau
5 years ago
In a world of visual learners and learning through drawing scratch paper should be allowed!
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Anna Mannix
5 years ago
These professionals work hard to pass these tests. Give them what they prepared for!
Architecture involves sketching. Sketching is quicker, easier and more thought out when done on physical paper.
Please do better.
We are future architects. We think through our hands with pen and paper. To deny test takers the ability to think with their hands denies how we are educated, and how humans have evolved to think and solve problems. The digital medium of scratch paper is not an equivalent replacement as a thinking tool.
We went to architecture school because we appreciate the Mother of the arts and Think through a Process of Hand Sketching. It is hard to believe we will be asked to only think and process through the computer without allowing our brains to warm up through the pencil in order to obtain the right answer. This disrupts the entirety of An Architectural Design Exam, in my opinion. This will only make it more difficult for those who have troubles passing Standardized exams. We ask you to please re consider the general public. We ask you to consider some of us are doing these exams for the passion of Architecture in order to make Design better in the future. It is not a simple Choose the best answer. It is a struggle, it takes years. It is our life until we execute them.
This is a bad decision. My connection at my testing center is slow enough as it is. Now I have to use an additional tool that is slow and lacks flexibility? In the middle of a pandemic? Why are you making an already difficult situation more difficult?
I understand the security issue with using scratch paper online, but do not understand why this would also be the case for those testing in person. Please reconsider this change.
This should not be a dispute. Scratch paper should be a must in both online and in person exams.
There is simply not enough room on a screen to write and use a digital blackboard. Id say the screens at the proctoring center are 2/3 the size of ONE of my 2 screens at work. Unless you plan on providing every test taker ipads to write on this is simply ridiculous. I am supposed to work out an equation on a digital format?! Have you ever done that- its extremely difficult. And takes a ridiculous amount of time. I write and take notes as I am taking the test, its criticle for me. Most of us are learn and process tactilely. I already struggle with the digital format. Wouldnt it be easier to scan/photograph our scrap paper and show video proof of its destruction?
Doing away with scratch paper is a horrible idea. how are we to work out math problems with a mouse!?!?!?!
Do not agree with this idea
Physical scratch paper is a MUST!!!!
The CEO of NCARB needs to resign. So does senior staff at NCARB. You cannot play with people's lives this way while collecting millions in a profession you KNOW NOTHING ABOUT.
This is devastating. I cannot organize my thoughts without using my hand to write them down in a QUICK manor. Everyone in the profession has a sketchbook / notebook with them during all office hours to take notes / draw out ideas, why should this be any different- isn't the purpose of this exam to have more of a connect to the professional work day. In the LEAST- provide us with a 1:1 solution with a stylus and digital notebook.
Having scratch paper for exams is essential, and I can't see any viable reason for getting rid of it.
Scrap paper is a necessary part of organizing thoughts and developing solutions. To move this to a screen operated via mouse is senseless and ultimately unnatural to the way anyone would function in the profession.
A scratch piece of paper is important for the exam. It’s what we do in practice. We don’t work out a solution on a computer, it starts with a pen and paper always.
Like may ARE test takers, I rely on scratch paper to frame out math problems, take notes, and sketch solutions to graphic problems. As a left-handed person who uses a mouse with my right hand, using a digital white board to sketch, draw, or calculate will be next to impossible and take considerable valuable time. Why make this test logistically harder when its supposed to asses our practical competency.
The scratch paper is essential! Flipping back and forth between so many tabs, is very time consuming and in these exams every second counts. Time is already so extremely limited. Being able to jot down notes, rather than constantly having to refer back to the scenario is the only saving grace when it comes to the case studies. Being able to write down a math problem is also a necessity. Architects are visual people. On many occasions I've sketched out a problem in order to visualize it... this would be impossible without the scratch paper. We already have to fight with a slow computer rather than being able to easily flip through a set of plans as we can in the "real world" and have to use a computer calculator, which I find extremely irksome, but now we are somehow expected to take notes on the computer too? This is absurd. I thought the exam was supposed to mimic scenarios that architects face every day. An architect would never be expected to complete their job without a piece of paper to write and sketch on. Never! Please stay true to the profession. What harm can possibly come from a blank piece of paper? You have already made the 5.0 exams far more complicated than 4.0, please do not take the scratch paper away from us too!
In a world of visual learners and learning through drawing scratch paper should be allowed!
These professionals work hard to pass these tests. Give them what they prepared for!