Welcome to Week 1!

I hope this course marks the beginning of the end of your PCM/PJM experience!

Ever heard of muscle confusion? I think you can do something similar with studying, although Brain Confusion doesn’t seem like it would really get popular. But hear me out. When studying for these exams I believe you have to be very regimented. You need to set an exam date, figure out everything you need to study between now and then, and write it down in a list. Seriously, use Excel and schedule exactly what you’re going to study every night. You need to define a time for yourself to do all these things.

Those are your rules, and you need to do your best to follow them. Just like design, the best study results come when you follow the rules just enough to know when you can bend them. So be strict, but you can let yourself get off-topic in an efficient manner. Some things you shouldn’t study in a specifically defined time. For PcM/PjM I think that one thing is the AIA Contracts. You need to get these down cold, and the best way is to have them always on your mind. Still define a time just for the contracts, but make sure you’re looking at them a little bit every day all the way through.

To help you with this I am adding a suggested Article from different AIA Contracts to the end of each assignment. Look for it at the bottom of each page. These have nothing to do with the assignments above, just an extra thing to help you focus on something new.

I have an idea of what this course will be, but like the the PPD/PDD Course, these things sometimes take on a life of their own. So who know where we’ll end up with this. I’m excited to find out though.

Thank you for signing up, do well on your exams and keep in touch!

Regards,
Ben
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