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Candidates are required to record at least 2 years recent practical experience against specified competencies and include a Statement of Practical Experience, which is a brief synopsis of practical experience. Only electronic logbooks are accepted by the ARBV. (No hard copies, or downloaded pages are accepted.)

Logbooks are available on the AACA website under Publications. These are to be filled in and uploaded to your online application as a single PDF file which includes the statutory declaration, list of architects and copy of the degree. The candidate’s name should be used as the file name. Close attention should be paid to the Checklist to ensure that the logbook is complete, and to reduce the risk of it being failed by the examiners.

Submit your application online through our website. Go to the ‘Register’ tab at the top right of this page and follow the prompts.

The statutory declaration form for Victoria and the checklist are available under this tab on the website “APE Resources”.

Information about all aspects of the APE and the National Standard of Competency for Architects (NSCA) against which assessments in the logbook are made can be obtained from the AACA website under ‘Publications’ (www.aaca.org.au). Click on this link to view the AACA NSCA.

Mandatory Experience

A minimum of 3300 hours Mandatory experience is required across the seven prescribed competencies. Candidates are required, in their statement of practical experience and electronic logbook summary to identify the quality and duration of experience recorded and relate it to the seven mandatory competencies.

There are two APE rounds each year. Dates are available on the home page.

Satisfactory submission of the logbook and Statement enables candidates to proceed to Part 2 of the APE.

The NEP is a one hour ‘CLOSED BOOK’ multiple choice paper. A sample paper and additional questions are available from the AACA website under ‘Publications’.

A pass in the NEP is required before a candidate can be invited to proceed to interview.

On successful completion of Part 2, candidates receive an invitation to attend the interview.

Each candidate is interviewed by two ARBV examiners who are experienced practitioners, on the range of work and experience presented by the candidate.

Duration: one hour.

APE Dates 2019:

Round 1

Logbook submissions: from Monday 28th January to Wednesday 6th February

(Logbooks must be submitted during the specified submission dates. Late submissions will not be accepted)

National Examination Paper (NEP): Tuesday 2nd April

Interviews: Monday 29th April – 15th June.  Dates TBC

Round 2

Logbook submissions: from Monday 3rd June to Monday 17th June

(Logbooks must be submitted during the specified submission dates. Late submissions will not be accepted)

National Examination Paper (NEP): Tuesday 20th August

Interviews: Monday 9th September – end of October. Dates TBC

Note: Candidates are encouraged to submit earlier rather than later in the submission window.

Candidates resubmitting for the written exam or the interview must submit their logbooks during these submission dates to be included in the round.

The following PDFs are available for download