ARE Secrets helps you ace the Architect Registration Examination, without weeks and months of endless studying. Our comprehensive ARE Secrets study guide is written by our exam experts, who painstakingly researched every topic and concept that you need to know to ace your test. Our original research reveals specific weaknesses that you can exploit to increase your exam score more than you've ever imagined. ARE Secrets includes: The 5 Secret Keys to ARE Success: Time is Your Greatest Enemy, Guessing is Not Guesswork, Practice Smarter, Not Harder, Prepare, Don't Procrastinate, Test Yourself; A comprehensive General Strategy review including: Make Predictions, Answer the Question, Benchmark, Valid Information, Avoid Fact Traps, Milk the Question, The Trap of Familiarity, Eliminate Answers, Tough Questions, Brainstorm, Read Carefully, Face Value, Prefixes, Hedge Phrases, Switchback Words, New Information, Time Management, Contextual Clues, Don't Panic, Pace Yourself, Answer Selection, Check Your Work, Beware of Directly Quoted Answers, Slang, Extreme Statements, Answer Choice Families; A comprehensive Pre-Design review including: Traffic Noise, Contour lines, Design Development Phase, On-Site Utility Studies, Dynamic compaction, Floor Area Ratio (FAR), Asbestos, Travel Distance to Exits, Permeability, International Building Code, Vegetated swales, Right of way, Esthetic zoning, Down zoning, Special use permits; A comprehensive General Structures review including: Flat Plate Floor System, Types of Loads, Proctor test, One-Way Joist Floor System, Advantages of Concrete Structures, Post-tensioned concrete, Roof Loads, Progressive Collapse, Flexure Theory, Columns, Fillet weld, Howe truss, Shear Stress versus Shear Strain, Modulus of Rigidity, Arch, Compressive (or tensile) Stress; A comprehensive Lateral Forces review including: Design wind pressure, Liquefaction, Seismic waves, Snow loading, P-Delta Effect, Abutment, Earthquake Loads, and much more...