Examitect's study plan turns your exam date into a real week-by-week schedule: you set how many weeks you have and which sections you are taking, and it spreads every objective across those weeks with an hour estimate for each topic. In our years helping Intern Architects prepare for the Examination for Architects in Canada, our team has seen a clear plan beat raw study hours almost every time. Examitect is an independent ExAC prep platform unaffiliated with the CACB. The hardest part of studying is knowing what to study next; a plan answers that for you.
Most ExAC reading lists are a pile, not a plan. They tell you what exists, not what to do on a Tuesday night in week five. The Examitect study plan fixes that by turning your timeline into a schedule. You tell it how many weeks you have before your sitting and which sections you are taking, and it generates a week-by-week roadmap that spreads the fourteen official objectives across those weeks. Each week is broken into topics, each topic carries an estimated study-hour budget, and each one points to the primary references you should be reading.
It is built for working Intern Architects, who rarely get a clean run at studying. Because you choose the number of weeks, the plan stretches or compresses to fit a real life, and the hour estimates let you see in advance which weeks are heavy so you can plan around them. Here is the plan at a glance.
| Timeline | Set any length from 4 to 32 weeks (12 recommended) |
|---|---|
| Sections | Plan one section or all four |
| Per topic | An hour estimate and the primary references to read |
| Progress | Check off weeks and topics; completion climbs as you go |
| Free to browse | The first two weeks are free on the study plan page |
| Coverage | All four sections and the fourteen official objectives |
Setting up a plan takes about a minute:
The first two weeks are free to browse on the free study plan page, so you can see the structure before you commit. With full access you get every week unlocked and your progress saved to your account, on any device. You can also regenerate the plan any time your timeline changes.
Everyone studies differently, but the honest baseline is at least twelve weeks, and not less than four. Twelve weeks gives a working Intern Architect room to read the heavy references, drill practice questions, and still leave a buffer before the exam. Four weeks is possible if the rest of your life cooperates, but it is a sprint, not a stroll. Starting earlier almost always improves your odds, because the schedule stays loose enough to absorb a bad week.
Whatever length you choose, the rule our team repeats after every sitting is the same: build practice into the plan from the first week. Reading the references builds recognition; practice questions and flashcards build the recall and applied judgement the exam actually scores. A plan that is all reading until the final fortnight leaves the hardest skill until there is no time to develop it. For the bigger picture on what to read and in what order, see the ultimate ExAC preparation guide.
A plan only helps if you keep it live. A few habits keep it honest:
Yes. Examitect includes a study plan tool that builds a week-by-week schedule from your exam timeline and the sections you are taking. It spreads the fourteen official objectives across your weeks, estimates study hours per topic, and lets you track your progress. The first two weeks are free to browse.
You enter how many weeks you have and select your sections, then generate the plan. It lays out each week with its topics, an estimated hour budget for each, and the primary references to read. As you study, you check off topics and weeks, and your completion percentage rises.
Examitect generally recommends at least twelve weeks, and not less than four. Twelve weeks gives a working Intern Architect time to read the references, drill practice questions, and keep a buffer before the exam. Starting earlier typically improves your chances because the schedule stays flexible.
The first two weeks of any plan are free to browse with no account, so you can see the structure and the hour estimates. Full access unlocks every week, saves your progress to your account, and syncs it across devices.
Either. You select the sections you are taking, from a single section up to all four, and the plan spreads only those objectives across your timeline. If you are sitting one section at a time, you can build a focused plan for just that section.
Yes, with full access. You check off topics and weeks as you complete them, your completion percentage climbs, and the progress is saved to your account so you can pick up where you left off on any device.
Each topic points to the primary references mapped to that objective, including CHOP, CHING, NBC 2020, NECB, and CCDC. The plan tells you which book to open for each week rather than handing you the whole reading list at once.
Yes. You can regenerate the plan any time with a different number of weeks or a different mix of sections. This is useful when work eats into your study time and you need to rebuild the schedule around the weeks you actually have.
A plan keeps you organised, but it is the studying inside it that passes the exam. The plans that work pair reading with practice questions, flashcards, and at least one full mock exam from the first week, not just in the final stretch.