NCARB adds six months to exam clock, plans for remote examinations

The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) has announced additional measures to aid prospective Architect Registration Examination (ARE) candidates. Access to ARE examination sites has been spotty, if not outright unavailable, throughout the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic so far, though testing centers in certain states began reopening earlier this summer. In order to help test takers stay on track with their examination schedules, NCARB has issued an additional six-month rolling clock extension to ARE candidates that had "passing exam scores that were valid as of March 1, 2020."   Previously on Archinect: Architectural Licensure at a Crossroads: An Interview with NCARB President Robert M. Calvani and President-Elect Alfred Vidaurri.  Images courtesy of NCARB.This extension builds on a previous nine-month grace period that was put into effect back in March when Prometric, the company that administers ARE examinations across the country, made the move to shu...

NCARB adds six months to exam clock, plans for remote examinations

The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) has announced additional measures to aid prospective Architect Registration Examination (ARE) candidates.

Access to ARE examination sites has been spotty, if not outright unavailable, throughout the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic so far, though testing centers in certain states began reopening earlier this summer. In order to help test takers stay on track with their examination schedules, NCARB has issued an additional six-month rolling clock extension to ARE candidates that had "passing exam scores that were valid as of March 1, 2020."  

Previously on Archinect: Architectural Licensure at a Crossroads: An Interview with NCARB President Robert M. Calvani and President-Elect Alfred Vidaurri.  Images courtesy of NCARB.

This extension builds on a previous nine-month grace period that was put into effect back in March when Prometric, the company that administers ARE examinations across the country, made the move to shu...