Any Spring 2016 CA-Survey/Seismic exam takers?
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jijir83
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I went to the test location a week before my first exam and had a long chat with the people there. Even tried out one of the chairs, used the bathroom etc... Once you're at the computer, you use your time however way you want. Once you click "Yes" that your name is your name and you are you, the clock ticks through the tutorial then through the exam.
The tutorial was the same for the seismic as for the survey. I spent the time writing down 1 through 55 and quadrants of 6 questions per 15 min countdown (2:15 hr = 6, 2:00hr = 12, 1:45hr = 18 etc...). If I wasn't keeping that pace, I would skip and get on track. Ended up with 20 minutes to spare at the end. Not that it made a difference other than help me guess maybe a little better on the marked ones. The test was still horrible. I'm accepting that I'll have to take it again. We'll see. Blehhhkkk!
All done. At least I have my weekends back, either forever or until October.
The tutorial was the same for the seismic as for the survey. I spent the time writing down 1 through 55 and quadrants of 6 questions per 15 min countdown (2:15 hr = 6, 2:00hr = 12, 1:45hr = 18 etc...). If I wasn't keeping that pace, I would skip and get on track. Ended up with 20 minutes to spare at the end. Not that it made a difference other than help me guess maybe a little better on the marked ones. The test was still horrible. I'm accepting that I'll have to take it again. We'll see. Blehhhkkk!
All done. At least I have my weekends back, either forever or until October.
jijir83
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What's the deal with these numbers?! Every co-worker who has taken these say the same thing. Low 30s for Survey and High 20s for seismic was a trend.I felt very good about 32 (of 50) for Survey and 27 (of 50) for Seismic. The rest I either skipped and guessed, narrowed it down and guessed, or didn't even get to in time and guessed. I passed.
I'm in a similar range. Got to 35 for Survey all confident and realized I had little time left so I rushed to 45 (therefore not sure what I messed up), then ran out of time so I had to guess to 55. For Seismic, I'd say I had 25-27 done properly. The rest is whatever.
We'll see how mine goes.
ptatohed
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If you got 25 correct, then we can approximate your score as [25 + .25(55 - 25)] / 55 = 59%. I think you could be just on the correct side of passing jiji.
jijir83
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Hahaha! I won't even start with that and mess with my heart. I'm sure there'll be loads sensitivity/what-if analysis going on for the next 6 weeks if I do. I'll drink my way through the wait instead!
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I took the seismic again this time around this past Wednesday. I took about 30 minutes and clicked through the whole exam, answering the easy conceptual questions first. Then I went through and answered the medium difficulty questions one by one, while flagging the difficult ones. I ran out of time and had to guess on about 9 questions, but I still felt pretty good about the ones I did answer. I think I passed this time around. I think the material in the EET books is on a similar level of difficulty to the actual exam, so running through those homework problems helped quite a bit.
jijir83
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Last week is when the last exam date was available. They send results somewhere 6 weeks after that. So, yeah... sit tight.
People who have taken it before have heard back from NCEES before they hear from CA.
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Last December results came out on the 17th. So count on a solid 5-6 weeks from the last test date before results are released. And jijir83 is correct, NCEES results come first and then the CA state specific exam results get released.
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COMON CALIFORNIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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ANNOUNCED MAY 19, 2016 - The Board is anticipating that results from the Spring 2016 examination will be released in the next two weeks. We will continue to provide updates though the Board’s website, Twitter, and Facebook accounts. Please do not contact our office asking when the results will be released.
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Anybody here waiting for the Surveying results.
Mangano
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Waiting for both. Have to admit that I found the surveying very challenging.
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The news today, which I'm sure everyone has seen, is that the state-specific exam scores will be released by Friday, 5/27.
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