Six exams, one order.Each one reuses what the last one taught you.
Contracts and practice first, while the same documents keep coming up. Then design, from site analysis to details. Prefer another order? Move exams around and the dates re-plan.
First, contracts and practice.
Three exams, one set of documentsStart with the vocabulary. It’s the shortest exam, and it introduces the contracts, ethics, risk and firm-business terms every later division assumes you know.
Same contracts, applied to one project. Owner–architect agreements, fees and schedules pick up where PcM left off — take it while those documents are fresh.
Close out the contracts arc. Construction administration — submittals, RFIs, payment, closeout — runs on the general conditions you’ve just studied twice.
Then, design, site to detail.
Each builds on the one beforeSwitch to design at its starting point. Site, context and programming set up everything PPD asks you to pull together.
Bring program, systems and codes into one design. Builds directly on PA’s site and program work.
Take it close behind PPD. The two share systems, codes and materials; PDD adds detailing, specifications and estimates.
Line weight shows exam length. Hours are Lineweight estimates for studying in the recommended order; your tracker narrows them as you rate objectives and answer questions.