PREPARE / Exam Question + Answer Learning System - EQuALS™

HISTORY

PREPARE was founded in October 2002 on the premise of providing quality education to “prep” candidates for the Structural Systems component of the Architect Registration Exam (A.R.E.).

Teaching professionals and students kept PREPARE on the cutting-edge of the latest trends; thus, keeping us current in the professional practice of architecture and engineering. We brought our experiences from professional practice back to the classroom! This cyclical process of knowledge and implementation is a big part of the success of PREPARE's educational and professional endeavors.

​PREPARE's education endeavors were provided in live venues around the U.S., and in blended learning environments (live-online and self-paced videos) to adult learners all over the world.

Fast-forward to 2012 - In 2012, PREPARE developed and released a proprietary software, EQuALS™! EQuALS™ was developed in response to our clients / learners wanting more study questions and detailed explanations of why the right answers are correct and the wrong answers are incorrect. PREPARE’s competitors in kindred subject matter did not provide convincing, and sometimes incorrect, answers. EQuALS™ provides a vehicle to incorporate in-depth explanations. All too often, students trust answers at face value without “digging” deeper into WHY the answer is correct or the best. If a student guesses at a multiple-choice question, whether they guess correctly or incorrectly, the student may still not know why their guess was correct or incorrect. EQuALS™ provides the format and vehicle to provide understanding for each question!

2019 / 2020 - Since 2012, EQuALS™ has had more than 3,000 subscribers! For a 7-year period between 2012 -2019, PRPEARE’s flagship question group “Structural Systems Sample Questions”, boasts 340 question slides, with 1,719 subscribers. The subscribers generated 405,979 question slides accumulating 1,557,723 views!

PROJECT SCOPE - Exam Question + Answer Learning System - EQuALS™

​As we make EQuALS™ available to students, instructors, and organizations to deliver their specific content, we require an efficient, reliable, redundant, and affordable platform to host and deliver EQuALS™. The current version of the software provides necessary basic functionality but has number of deficiencies that threaten the prospective growth of the software user base, number of deployed organizations and amount of stored topics.

​The EQuALS™ software from PREPARE, Inc. is a suite of tools for online preparation to examination using study guides designed for the system. EQuALS™ is a robust, fresh, professional way to deliver content! EQuALS™ allows content to be setup in a presentation or exam-style format (i.e. multiple choice, choose all that apply, true or false, numeric fill-in-the-blank, and a self-grading option of essay reveal). EQuALS™ provides a vehicle to incorporate in-depth explanations. Though the Q&A content offerings through EQuALS™ were initially and primarily focused on architecture and [structural] engineering topics, EQuALS™ was envisioned / developed to deliver ANY educational Q&A Content in a professional and affordable manner.

​The goal is to re-engineer and update the Current EQuALS™ Software application.

The overall project scope is quite extensive, it is written for multiple teams. If multiple Student Group Teams select this project, the goals and scope will be prioritized while still designing and developing The Project with continuity of the parts in mind. The project can be broken down into three parts:

1. The first, Global [re]Development,
2. a second, Development of EQuALS™ as a Mobile Application, and
3. a third, Focused Module Development Tasks.

Below is link and password where you will find additional information regarding the goals.

https://www.prepareinc.net/equalsdevgroup

Guest Password: EQuALS2021