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I just took it and passed it without the AASHTO and PCI. I accepted the risk of missing a couple of questions that covered those topics, which there were probably about four of. The CERM has a chapter on prestressed concrete in it, and Goswami has a chapter on bridges to help skate by those...

CERM, Goswami, and NCEES sample exam to study. Did ton of problems using PPI Exam Cafe. Although I had a ton of gripes with Exam Cafe, working all the problems helped a lot.

I have the bridge design in PDF but obviously do not want to print out the entire thing for maybe two questions. Does anyone have any good gouge of some key pages to print out that may be helpful for the exam, especially the Structural PM?

Yes, there are five main topics (structural, geo, hyd, etc) and each topic has several subtopics (steel, concrete, permeability, etc), with each subtopic having maybe five videos.

The problems are pretty good practice. I subscribed for a few months, I am not sure how representative the problems are of the exam. The guy also goes overboard a little on the solutions as if he is trying to impresses us, such as using newtons method to iterate and differentiate complex...

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On this problem and 514, they calculate the torsion of a beam due to a shear force relative to the centroid. Shouldn't the moment arm be from the force to the shear center?

So for those of you who took the exam or those who are using a prep course, any questions that involve chemical equations or BOD type stuff in the AM? The 6 minute solutions for environmental only had mostly hydraulics and hydrology type questions.

I've been using it for a couple of weeks now and am not impressed at all. I have found so many errors in the example problems and have wasted so much time trying to track down whether I made an error or PPI made the error. I have reported them all and not a peep back. So any other good...