When I took the tests I had two main issues with them:
- The limited testing times.
- The incredibly irritating questions in A, B , and D.
It’s been a few years but I remember walking out of those tests infuriated that these were the questions that were going to make me a landscape architect. They didn’t seem to have anything to do with what I had been doing in LA for the last few years. . . . they seemed simplistic in a way. Not that they weren’t difficult or required a bunch of memorization. They just didn’t seem to need the main skills that I thought a good LA needed – critical thinking and telling funny stories and so on.
The graphic exams were great fun, but with the low passing rates it seemed that that the scoring must be totally arbitrary after I had made what seemed like a real mistake but passed anyway. Not that I question the passing, just made me wonder what you’d have to do to fail.
Now my gripe is with all the fees that we need to pay as professionals. If you maintain a couple of licenses you or your firm is required to pay out the bumwad to keep them, your CLARB registration, your ASLA membership and everything else active. .. . We LAs aren’t making money hand over fist – not even our fancy round glasses wearing members aren’t taking their personal jets to their latest projects. . . .
Been a couple of years though, so take my comments with a grain of salt. It doesn’t take long for my memory to go hazy.
