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STUDYING Use the NCEES practice exam to assess your strong and weak areas, then study primarily out of CERM which contains 95% of the material you need for both Civil AM and Construction PM. Studying from too many books makes it more difficult to find the info you need later. The Lindeburg...

thanks for the advice

I don't remember needing this reference in the Oct '09 exam with construction PM. I didn't have it since it wasn't on the reference list.

There were at least 2 problems requiring these standards when I took it Oct '09. I took construction PM, but I honestly can't remember if they were in morning or afternoon.

I just moved to California earlier this year and I'd like to transfer my PE license from MO to CA and learned I need to take these two exams. I couldn't find much info on the CA board website about the exams. Is there an exam spec that lists the topics covered? All I found was a list of...

I passed on my first attempt in 2009. I didn't use any ranking system and only skipped problems if they were taking more than 6 minutes without nearing the end, which was only a few. I had plenty of time to go back to these problems. The benefit is when I went back I knew I was done with the...

I think in most states your experience starts after you complete your bachelors. I disagree with Kendis on the construction experience. Go to the ASCE Construction Institute website and you'll find a list of activities that ASCE considers to be engineering experience...

I agree with the other responses. The construction pm requires knowledge of many topics, but the content generally doesn't require any complicated math or codes to follow. Although not complicated, the math can get involved in the sense that there are many computations to track for some types...

About 80 hrs self study. Took and passed first attempt.

Agreed Ruwan's book is not great. Formatting is bad, content is OK. He's turned down my two offers to help him improve it. In addition to Dex's recommendations, the wood design books and SP-4 were referenced during the exam as were ASCE 37-02 and 7-05, the AISC steel manual is useful for...

My company paid for my prep material and the exam and registration, but there is no raise involved and I didn't really expect there to be. I also won't be stamping any drawings any time soon since I am still the most junior around here. My small company is in need of more business and billable...

Dex I think your GC experience sounds like something I would have enjoyed and yes very different from mine. I was in the field as well, but my hands on work was usually problem solving with the superintendent and sub foremen as a project manager. Although I was titled "project engineer" I...

I only took construction pm in oct09 (passed) so I can't be sure what the difference was from previous exams. I thought it was very similar to the NCEES sample exam. The exam did occasionally combine scheduling, productivity and estimating concepts in a single problem. Maybe this is the kick...

Check out this link from ASCE. http://content.constructioninst.org/Profes...lLicensure.html I used the wording in the list under the Gaining Experience section. On the application I first listed all the items in that list that applied to me. Then, on a separate sheet of paper, I listed 2...

I didn't bring much, but didn't need all of what I did bring. Books I had on exam day: NCEES references minus the masonry bracing manual. note: ACI 347 is in the index of SP-4. OSHA and MUTCD are free online but you have to print. I only printed relevant sections. For example: the...