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We had plenty of room. The rule was only one reference book on the table at one time, but most people kept two - the one you use for most things, + the one you need for just this one question. We had two per a large folding table, like a cafeteria table. NCEES has some standard, I bet. The...

NCEES and the various state boards will accommodate any requirement of the ADA. What are you looking for?

They may have those, and you may never figure out what is correct based on that. All of the answers may be multiples of something like 60. They may ask what answer is "closest to" or the answer of "what is the smallest size of ____ that will work. One answer will be rounded down for closest...

For the PE, we brought in a ton of books. I had mine in crates, along with my cooler of snacks and drinks and another crate with extra calculator, extra shirt, etc. They didn't inspect materials while coming in, however there were a million proctors wandering around all the time. All...

Secret #1. Study your ass off. Secret #2. Try every problem. Secret #3. Study your ass off. :)

Yep. Some states require experience be worked under a PE, some require various quantities of PE's as reference, some require both. I don't know how boards handle disciplines where a PE is very rare, or non-existent. How will someone get experience working for a PE in Software Engineering, for...

That's only an approximation for gravity on earth. :) :borg: :borg: :borg:

I am not a lawyer, etc... It may be that this is not an actual misdemeanor. Maybe check with the college to see if it is reported anywhere as anything other than a violation of school rules.

The general consensus around here is that if you get 80%+ on sample exams, then you will probably get the roughly 65%-75% needed to pass. As stated above, there is no published pass/fail point. Part of the reason is that they may find a fault with a question and throw it out, and have to...

In my opinion, a lot of the "work under a PE" and "get a PE to endorse you" are well suited to most Civil engineers, and if you look at the numbers, Civil seems to represent about 3/4 or more of the PE exam takers and PEs. The problem is that in a lot of PE areas, like Agricultural, Chemical...

GFCI is required in certain areas. It does not consider what is plugged into it, since plugs will accept anything plugged in and the risk of shock is there regardless of the type of device plugged in. If it might be exposed to wet, then install a GFCI.

I just used the Power book from Camera and an excerpt that was free. The only 1-2 question(s) on the test were covered with what I had. I strategically opted to not get the full NESC.

How many resume's have you put out? 100, 500? When you are job hunting, figure that a well-advertised job may receive well over 100 applicants. How can you stand out? Do you customize/tweak your resume and cover letter for each? Do you at least have a few versions that will work for...

You have an average of six minutes. Some problems took me less than one minute, some took 6-15 minutes. I did about 3 passes on the exam. First was everything that I knew I could do, regardless of how long, I did group the NFPA code questions and did them first. I did about 80% this way. I...

And beware the differences between P and S. S should be a vector, P is a scalar. I always do these as vectors. Some books get confusing to me when with the trig formulas.