The reading list looks impossible and it is not. The exam is a test of LEED, not of the standards […]

You have done the reading. What follows is technique — the things that change a score without changing what you […]

Cheat sheets usually order the numbers by the credit they came from. That is the ordering that lets them down. […]

There is no official answer, because USGBC publishes no study-time figure for any of its exams. What there is instead […]

Harder than LEED Green Associate, and harder in a specific way rather than simply bigger. The AP exam covers the […]

LEED Process is 7 of the 85 scored questions and has no rating-system category at all. Project Priorities is 10 […]

  Location and Transportation is 8 of the 85 scored questions and 15 points — the same for New Construction […]

Integrative Process, Planning and Assessments is 8 of the 85 scored questions and one point for a New Construction project. […]

Water Efficiency is 9 of the 85 scored questions and 9 points for New Construction. It is a lopsided category: […]

Sustainable Sites is 9 of the 85 scored questions and 11 points for New Construction, identical for Core and Shell. […]