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How to bring Black Spectacles ARE 5.0 to your firm, school, or AIA chapter
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Written by Jessica Ritter
Updated over a week ago

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Benefits to your firm

How to get your team licensed

Black Spectacles ARE 5.0 Prep can help your organization get licensed faster and maximize their productivity. Enterprise licenses are scalable for firms, schools, AIA chapters, and government organizations of all sizes.

Benefits to your firm:

  • Our members report a 77.4% pass rate on the ARE 5.0. The NCARB National Average is only 52%.

  • Get your staff licensed faster. Our ARE Prep tutorials include a complete and comprehensive curriculum for ARE 5.0. No more taking turns with ARE books. Get your staff licensed faster by preparing on their own schedule. You can be confident that your staff is learning what they need to know for the exam since all 6 divisions of our ARE 5.0 study materials are the first-ever to be approved by NCARB and the first ARE prep provider to have all 6 divisions approved!

  • Staff can learn on their own time. Everything is available on-demand through personalized logins. The Video Lectures Practice Exams Digital Flashcards and Quizzes are available on any device with an internet connection, so your staff can learn at home, in the office, or during their commute. On top of that, members can work through division specific exercises with a licensed architect during our weekly 2-hour Virtual Workshops on Sundays.

  • Incredible quality, flexibility and value. Our online learning platform offers high quality learning and schedule flexibility, all for a fraction of the cost of traditional learning methods.

  • Attract new talent. 29 of the Top 50 architecture firms offers Black Spectacles as an employee benefit perk!

Here's how to get a your team licensed:

Step 1: Navigate to the firm, school, or AIA chapter pages and begin a chat with one of our Account Executives by using the blue chat icon in the right corner.
The purpose of your first conversation will be to learn more about your organization's needs to see if Black Spectacles will be a good fit.

Step 2: Schedule a brief product presentation. On this call, you will take a tour of all Black Spectacles ARE 5.0 and Software Learning modules via screen-share before going over a personalized proposal (pricing is not covered until this step is completed).

Step 3: Schedule a free 48 hour trial for your entire group! Each member will have full access to our learning modules for the duration of the trial.

Step 4: Launch your group and start studying with the first NCARB Approved ARE prep on the market!

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