getting started

Last last Saturday, while I was in an overview class for the California Supplemental Exam (oral exam), my best friend had her first baby. Yay!

The agenda of the class was to go over the topics on the four subject categories of the oral exam: Professional Organization; Professional Responsibilities and Conduct; Research, Programming and Analysis; and Project Scope and Implementation. Each subject lasted about 45 minutes. Areas that I need to review further are: responsibilities of the architect during the design phases, the AIA contract documents and codes, their purposes and what agency enforces each.

Last Wednesday, I had my second class. There are only two of us in the class so we received more personal attention from the instructor. We were able to give examples of our exam questions and to get possible answers from the instructor. Our homework assignment was to write down the problem and questions we can remember from our last exam, dig up our scores to identify our areas of weakness and prepare for our mock orals this Wednesday.

Tomorrow, I will layout my plan for the areas I need to study more.