Ban Exam Prep

Just my opinion. Exam prep shall be banned.

It is scary if new PEs need someone to hold their hand to pass.

not sure if serious?

Wow, this one could go in a lot of different directions. Do yo have any logic to cite?

romdrv56 said:

Just my opinion. Exam prep shall be banned.

It is scary if new PEs need someone to hold their hand to pass.

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roadwreck said:

not sure if serious?

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Dude's probably an architect.

Captain Worley made me laugh!

fuller57 said:

Captain Worley made me laugh!

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He beat me to it...

If a PE is new then he/she wouldn't need help to pass the PE, since by virtue of being a new PE wouldn't they already be a PE?

I'm confused.....

Tell NCEES to give me a test specific to what I do and then I wouldn't need to get help with water resources.

CivilConstruction said:

Tell NCEES to give me a test specific to what I do and then I wouldn't need to get help with water resources.

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+1 (though in my case that would involve thermo and HVAC)

To the OP...

You do realize the point of this forum is for engineers who have already been down that road to offer advice to those preparing to take it?

Tell NCEES to give me a test about what diners have the best breakfast specials in town and I promise you I can pass. To me THAT would test what's really job-specific to the muncipal worker such as myself.

I fully agree with the OP. Ban exam prep all together. Anyone that needs to prepare for a test (any test in anything) is obviously not qualified to take the test in the first place. Following this logic, if someone knows the material well enough th pass the test without any preparation then they are experts and don't need to take a test anyway. Therefore, we should probably push to eliminate the test as opposed to eliminating the prepapration for the test.

college should be banned too.

if you cant pass the PE right out of high school, then you just aren't smart enough to be an engineer. college is just a crutch.

In fact, if your parents aren't smart enough to be engineers, then you're not smart enough to even try for it in HS.

DERAIL!!!!!

Bewbs

where?

romdrv56 said:

Just my opinion. Exam prep shall be banned.

It is scary if new PEs need someone to hold their hand to pass.

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When I read the thread title I thought perhaps you meant ban exam preparation material on exam day as in 'make the PE exam closed book'. And there are some advocates for that. But it seems that you are suggesting that no one should have access to any "exam prep" prior to taking the exam. Is that right? What do you mean by "exam prep"? Review classes? Or physical reference material/books? Or both? Are you saying that you took and passed the exam without studying?