Recent content by kchinger

Well, considering I passed first time, I'm not sure what you're getting at. Just a comment that it has the lowest repeat of any exam.

Well, I guess that materials guy I talked to who was taking it his third time didn't pass, seeing as that's 0%. If you don't pass Electrical the first time, you're screwed. The repeat this time was only 28%, the lowest of any exam. And the first time was 63%, which is almost the lowest.

http://engineerboards.com/index.php?showtopic=22495&page=3 Go there. It has a map that shows what has been released and when. They're starting early this year, same as April was. Colorado isn't out yet.

I might actually be moving to PA in the next few years. Lucky for me I got my PE before I moved.

Yep, it was good enough. Glad to be done with that.

I just passed, so here's what worked for me. Get the Power Reference Manual by Camera, and the quick reference equations that goes with it. Don't bother with the Questions that go with the manual, they're way more detailed than you need to know. Get the NCEES sample test. Get the NEC...

Passed Power in NC.

Same feeling as everyone else. AM was pretty easy, finished with 2 hours left and then spent 45 minutes working it again. Found a couple errors and fixed them, probably got 90% or so on the morning. Then, there was the afternoon. Wow. Totally different feel, probably twice as hard. My prep...

Got it, thanks. That makes sense.

Unrelated and probably noob question follows: Why did you take the PE a second time? I see other people doing this too. From what I understand, once you're a PE it doesn't say what your discipline was when you took it, and as long as you gain the necessary experience in your judgement to...

If you know electronics better than power maybe you should have taken the electronics PE exam instead of power.

I took Power, so it was the same AM/PM stuff, no breadth. I felt like the morning I crushed. I finished about 10 AM, and went back over it and caught a couple little mistakes and was out by 10:45 or so. I feel like probably 85% if not more morning, then again, they make you feel that way by...