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How high do I have to score to pass the exams? Should I aim for 70% or better? Will I need 80% to not fail? Do I have to get a perfect score to pass the LARE?

For starters, aim for 100%. If it's worth doing...

But then, of course, realize that you don't have to know everything. In fact, the Landscape Architecture Registration Exam is set by CLARB to establish "minimum professional competency", which means that if you were to practice landscape architecture by yourself your work would not endanger the public. You only have to know 'enough', which is much less than 'everything', but still vastly more than the average person knows (which is good for job security). For the graphic exams (C and E) you have to get a perfect score, but that only means 100% flaw-free, or at least free of serious fatal errors overall. You are not scored for beauty, ingenuity, creativity, inspiration, power, or rhyme. Only solutions that function well.

I know you want to hear that you need a 75% to pass sections A and B, 60% to pass D, and 80% to pass both C and E. But, there is no set number of points you have to get to pass the exams. After the exams are finished, CLARB has fully-licenced landscape architects write them in the same testing conditions as the real candidates do. This is how they calibrate the exams. Since each administration of the exam is unique, it is necessary to test the test. Examine the exam, if I may. CLARB then establishes what the passing score will be for that particular version of the exam, and judges every one's answers accordingly.

The reason is, that sometimes a multiple choice question is vague or doesn't make sense. No one can answer it correctly, not even fully-trained pros. It's rare, but it does happen. This helps to eliminate testing biases and the other flaws with exams that you learned about in psych 100 and stats for social sciences.