My path has been long and winding, and it's been a long time goal to secure the P.E. registration. Now that it's done, here is the method I used:
I graduated BSME in 1993 and MS Civil Engr in 1995. Worked about six years as a combustion engineer for a gas turbine manufacturer. About 18 years as...
Just wanted to thank the contributors to this thread very sincerely for guiding my test prep approach. I have been out of college since 1995 with an ME fluid and thermal sciences focus, and spent many years in combustion engineering on-site combined heat and power. This year I have changed...
In the middle of the night I woke up thinking about one of the non quantitative questions. So deceptively simple, I'm sure I got it wrong. Nothing to latch onto key-word wise that would allow me to find some direction in my references, so I just hunched the answer. Who knows. Given how I feel...
Yeah, there were a couple of questions that seemed to intentionally be structured differently than what all the practice exams had on them. Given a general topic area, if you did all the practice problems in the commonly available practice tests (several times!) you didn't necessarily answer the...
I agree it seemed PM had me searching through indexes of my reference materials more than the AM did. There were a few of the core questions that I felt very well prepared on the subject matter but there was a twist in how the question was asked that threw me off. At least four or five of those...
Hi Gomey - I thought the exam was very difficult, both AM and PM. For me the PM was a bit less chalenging but both very hard. It was my first attempt and I've been out of school since 1994. What with FE exam prep included it's been a year of hitting the books. I've been encouraged reading posts...