Services for Assistance with the ARB Part 1 and Part 2 Examination Applications.

​Lawrence Johnston established this independent service in 2015, in response to market demand from potential applicants preparing for the ARB Part 1 & Part 2 prescribed examinations. It has proven to be a very beneficial resource for candidates to augment any existing ‘marginal’ institutional provision. The contents of guidance and advice are regularly ‘updated’ and ‘revised’ to comply with the ongoing ARB requirements for these ‘internal’ examinations, in-line with current changes and developments in the architectural profession, the construction sector, and associated (UK) legislation. It should be noted that each of these services are offered on an individual basis, and not multiple teaching. It has gained valuable information from the ARB examiners resultant feedback from previous applications and incorporated relevant and important factors arising from the procedures of the ARB system.

Tuition Methodology for Part 1 & Part 2.
This is founded upon the pattern traditionally undertaken in a UK school of architecture and adopted by several international schools of architecture.
  • Appraising and evaluating ‘Comprehensive Design Projects’ (CDPs) sourced by the candidate.
  • Proposing additional subjects for CDPs, increasing and developing the scope and quality of the candidate’s design skills.
  • Matching/mapping those CDPs to each of the general criteria, GC1 to GC 11 together with their 33 sub-sets.
  • Reviewing and evaluating the candidate’s output on their CDPs to comply with the GCs.
  • Direction on the appropriate ‘medium’ for candidate’s to use for each of the 33 GCs, as per the ARB requirements-‘drawn’, ‘written’.
  • Guidance on the selection of appropriate essay topics to satisfy those GCs that require them
  • Provision of reference sources plus essential reading titles for the candidate to research.
  • Reviewing and providing feedback on the candidate’s draft written output.
  • Providing feedback, both written & verbal discussions via Skype tutorials, held at mutually convenient dates/times to suit a candidate’s ‘international time zone’.
  • Guidance and direction with completing the ARB pro-forma ‘comparative matrix’ and the final ‘checklist’.
  • Assistance with drafting the text of 300 words per GC, plus the 1,700 word summary at the end of the ARB comparative matrix form.
Specific services for repeat attempts:
  • Evaluating the feedback from the ARB examiners on ‘unsuccessful’ applications at Part 1 & Part 2 levels and how to address their findings for future applications.
  • Direction with improved ‘communication’ methods to enable the future ARB examiners locate GCs and assess the contents more readily in the supplementary material, when the ARB examiners have previously stated -“ we could not find evidence of…….”
  • Tailoring ‘work related’ output to comply with the ARB pro-forma templates-“employers references”.