The B.A.R.E (Barbados Architecture Registration Exam) is administered by the Architects Registration Board as partial fulfilment of the requirements for architects’ registration. The examination is scheduled for March and September of each year. This coincides with a mandatory minimum six-month waiting period between failed divisions. If a candidate failed a division, this allows him/her to spend the time between test administrations gaining additional knowledge, skills and abilities in the appropriate areas of practice. Candidates are encouraged to apply at least two months before the scheduled dates.

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The A.R.B currently requires applicants to hold an accredited professional degree in architecture (B.Arch, M.Arch, Dip.Arch), have three years (minimum) approved internship in the offices of architects before they are allowed to begin the examination sequence. Upon passing all divisions of the B.A.R.E, the candidate will be recognized by the A.R.B as a licensed architect.

The B.A.R.E has been designed and developed to test a candidate’s entry-level competence to practice architecture and its’ contents relate as closely as possible to the situations encountered in practice. The examination’s intention is to test for the kind of knowledge, skills and abilities required of an architect, with particular emphasis on those services that affect public health, safety and welfare. In order to accomplish these objectives, the exam shall test for:

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1. knowledge in specific subject areas of the profession

2. The ability to consolidate and use information to solve a problem, and

3. The ability to manage the project including the ability to make decisions and to coordinate the activities of others on the building team

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To this end the examination is divided into three parts.

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