ang galing ni venus!
anyway, i would just like to say...
Lesley, super thanks for lending Taz the Venus reviewer, and Taz, super thanks for lending them to me in turn.
I would never have found out about this if not for you guys. So, let's spread the word! :D
I don't know all the details, but apparently Arch. Venus Pagdunzulan is a kind (and very organized) soul who has compiled a bunch of reading materials to help reviewees out when studying for the board. The entire compilation has, as far as I can tell, 6 modules:
- Professional Practice
- Building Laws
- History
- Planning, Tropical Design, Theory, Housing Agencies, DENR Regulations, and Landscaping
- Utilities (I suppose this has Mech/Elec and Plumbing, but this volume is still with Taz, so I haven't reviewed it yet)
- Building Materials
I scanned everything and I am very very impressed at the effort and attention to detail that has gone into this compilation. Aside from the usual summary notes provided by the review centers, there are magazine and journal articles, product brochures, and things like the listing of the first 100 licensed architects and members of the UAP.
What's more, he has actually noted which items have come out in the previous boards and when they came out! I find this totally useful becuase normally when I scan through materials, I make judgements about whether or not something is likely to come out in the exam and is therefore worth remembering: he has taken a lot of guesswork out of this process!
Anyway, Joyce, Taz, and Lesley can tell you more about Arch. Venus; I think they took the mock boards by him today.
For those who are interested, I have 5 out of the 6 volumes and I plan to have them photocopied in UP tomorrow or some time next week. Let me know if you want copies too, and I will see what I can do. Disclaimer lang: I can't spring for the payment, since the number of pages runs into the thousands, and I don't have the money, hehehe.
I also hope I will be able to make a skeleton summary of the materials covered to post on the site (as in key words lang and if possible links), but I'm not sure if it will be all that easy to do.
This is a great learning resource. I don't usually gush like this, but there you go. Galing talaga. It has saved me days and days of work (I planned to do something like this on my own, but now that I look at the compilation, I could never have come close) and the fact that I have scanned everything helps calm me a bit.
Again, super super thanks Les, Joyce, Taz, and Arch. Venus (whoever and wherever he is)!
posted by betty at 8:45 PM
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Thanks kay janrey! sha yung unang nag-introduce that there's such thing as compilation by arch. venus.
hey betty! tell me more about prosec...grabe, you were able to scan everything in days?!
hey taz!
prosec is a training center for the development of various professional and academic skills. i'm training to teach a course for grade school kids that includes speed reading, so they had to train us to do speed reading before anything else.
i used to read at 300+ words per minute, now i average about 700+. iba pa yung techniques for scanning, which is pretty fast talaga. so technically i've scanned all the venus notes, but i haven't actually read them yet.
part of the speed reading course is a study method that is really useful. i also teach the kids how to take exams, kakatawa nga kasi most of the principles i've been implementing without knowing it.
anyway, the basic course is usually around 4k. the schedule is in a previous post. i can tell you more about it during our study group. :)
hi betty! interesado akong magpa-xerox ng venus reviewer...makakahabol pa ba ko?
by the way, this is ak. sa cdep ako nagrereview along with dana, sherylane, becca and katz.saturday section. goodluck sa tin lahat!
hi ak! actually... never ako nakarating sa up para mag xerox hehehe!
papaxerox siguro ako dito sa sm southmall... may 75 cents per page naman dito e. magkano uli sa up?
di pa ako nakakadecide kung saan e. balitaan kita kung tutuloy ako sa up. :D
wala pala ako celphone mo, i ym mo sakin. :) id ko bmtianco.
Ang galing nga eh. I never would've known about the reviewer if it weren't for my officemate who has a friend who is venus' officemate (shempre ang gulo).
Saw him nung oathtaking, nagpapicture sha kasama ng lahat ng mga pumasa na bumili ng reviewer nya. haha! apparently, he's having a bit of a run-in with CDEP...kumakalat na daw kasi sa CDEP yung reviewer nya (hehe), and the admin is saying na illegal daw ginagawa nya. Tsk tsk. Anyway, sinabi ko sa kanya na sikat na sha sa UP. Haha.
Galing talaga ng reviewer. Saved me alot of time, that's for sure. Only started reading that a month and 1/2 before boards, and it still worked miracles. Hahaha.
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