Struggling with CLARB exam on CLARB practice tests — any tips?

Passed CLARB 4 months ago. Happy to share what I remember.

On the "CLARB exam" stuff specifically — I found the practice tests here were actually harder than the real exam on those questions. Which was great because going in I felt more prepared than I needed to be.

The time pressure is real though. I came in with maybe 8 minutes to spare and that was after skipping the ones I wasn't sure about and coming back.

Don't try to cram the night before. Seriously. Last-minute stress makes you second-guess things you actually know.

This thread saved me from making the same mistakes. The tip about practice test being weighted heavily is accurate — I adjusted my study time based on this and it made a real difference. Also seconding the recommendation for clarb test.

Same boat here, honestly. I've been at this for a few weeks and the scenario questions are where I keep bleeding points too. What's tripping me up most is the grading and drainage stuff — like I can tell you the principles all day, but when they bury it in a site plan question with competing constraints, I second-guess everything. Do you find you're struggling more with the design portion or the technical/systems side?

One thing I'm curious about — when you review the ones you got wrong, are you usually off because you misread the scenario, or because you actually didn't know the concept as well as you thought? I'm trying to figure out if I need to slow down and read more carefully or just go deeper on certain topics. The accessibility and ADA application questions are also killing me, specifically where they overlap with grading tolerances.

Still grinding through practice questions myself so I don't have a magic answer, but would love to compare notes on which domains are giving you the most trouble.