Recent content by RL2017

Dude, I feel you. Morning went well and the PM was absolutely absurd. Missed 20 in the PM, and 8 in the AM. Total correct for me was 52. Im devastated to have to do this agin. 100's of hrs and $1000's gone. I took School of PE, it failed me in the PM. I think I'm going to try EET for October. 

I've gotten some recent recommendations to take EET for Geotech depth. Did anyone else find it to be very useful for the April 2017 exam? I took the School of PE course, and while I found it to be pretty useful in preparing for breadth, I was totally screwed on the PM portion. 

Thank you for the advice everyone. I'll definitely be sure to pick up some of the additional reference material, take the EET course, review all of my School of PE notes, and try to work through all of the 6 minute solutions problems in preparing for the October exam. Its going to be challenging...

 Thank you for the advice,  I may give EET a try. What other problem books did you find helpful for the Geotechnical p.m. portion. Six minutes solutions? 

I would say I did close to that, at a minimum...  I bought the most recent practice exam and worked a couple of the older ones, although they didn't seem to vary by more than five or six questions over the course of the past couple of years.  I treated that as if it was a real exam one week...

I primarily specialize in Forensics and residential/commercial building analysis.  We primarily inspect buildings that have undergone settlement or a range of other issues and provide repair recommendations and causes/origin of damage for insurance companies. We do not do a lot of design work...

To those of you that passed the Civil/Geo depth, What was your saving grace study method for the afternoon? Anyone take School of PE? I used it to prepare and felt that it fell far short for the PM portion. I had a study buddy that took it with me and did pass, but he agreed that at lest half...