While preparing for the NCIDQ Practicum Exam, you’ll come across many factors that can either work for or against you. Not surprisingly, it’s the strategies you use before and during that can make a difference.

Everything you need to know about the NCIDQ Exam: Saturday, December 16
The current NCIDQ Practicum Exam (PRAC) tests your application of knowledge regarding:
While preparing for the NCIDQ Practicum Exam, you’ll come across many factors that can either work for or against you. Not surprisingly, it’s the strategies you use before and during that can make a difference.
Life safety codes and standards are an important part of the NCIDQ Exam.
Get an overview of what you need to know here.
Universal Design is designing spaces and products so they can be used by everyone — disabled, able-bodied, young, and old.
Interior designers need to communicate their ideas to their client and construction crew.
Your knowledge of construction documents is key to your success not only as a designer but also passing the NCIDQ Exam.
In interior design, programming is the process of gathering and analyzing information about a problem before trying to solve it with design.
Growing your knowledge of building systems and construction is key to passing the NCIDQ Exam. It helps set you apart as a professional interior designer. Even if your focus is on interior decoration, it’s likely that a good part of your work will still depend upon integration with building systems.
The key to understanding lighting for each section of the NCIDQ Exam — IDFX, IDPX, or Practicum — is to know the different lighting systems. Know why one type of lighting may be better than another for a specific purpose, one environment or for certain people using a space.
The science of acoustics deals with sound in the built environment. Interior designers need to understand and be able to apply these basics for the NCIDQ Exam, on all three NCIDQ Exams.
Why should designers taking the NCIDQ Exam be concerned with Ergonomics? Spending a long hours hunched over in your workstation can cause problems for you in the long run.
We’ve found some tips to make four workplace items help ease you into a better posture, greater comfort, and better productivity in the office.