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I took Dr. Goswami's course for the April '11 exam. It is a very good course, and I'm sure it made all the difference for me. He has a good sense of what types of questions will be presented in the AM vs. PM. He has divided the problem sets into AM and PM sections for a reason. My advice...

I did the same thing for the same reason. Much easier to study through the winter. Start hitting it right after New Year's.

I took Goswami's course. His book and his course are both excellent. He is extremely knowledgeable, and has a great feel for what to expect from the exam. He provides excellent, in-depth notes that essentially expand on the material in his book. He also provides lots of sample problems (AM...

I am just beginning to think about which references I want to keep and which I would like to hold on to. I'd like to hold onto the Das texts, and I'm on the fence about keeping the Day handbook. The others were downloads that I printed out. The Rajapakse book was helpful while preparing, but...

Andros, Sorry to hear that it didn’t work out for you this time. Don’t be discouraged. Use what you just experienced to your advantage now that you have a better idea of what to expect on the exam in terms of content and level of difficulty. So, here are some tips and resource...

47 days. Is that some kind of record? Kudos to NCEES.

Thanks, I'll check the site tomorrow.

Does anyone have an idea as to how long it will take for NCBELS to add my name to their list and assign a number? I need to get a stampin'.

I also passed. I can hardly contain myself. :PASSED2:

It really happened. I checked the my NCEES web page and BOOM! Great News. WaaaaHooooo! Results are not up on the NCBELS site yet, so I don't have a number, but at least I know. Celebrate tonight!!! :multiplespotting:

Thanks engineergirl, I guess it is safe for me to dial back the anxiety until next week.

For geotech, soil classification (USCS & AASHTO) shouldn't be too hard to get down in a short period of time. It's pretty much like following a flow chart if you can find a resource you are comfortable with. Rock quality designation is pretty simple too. Given a core sample of a certain...

Speaking of problems with overburden, there are a couple of problems in 6-min solutions geotech depth that have me scratching my head: Problem 58: For a raft foundation at a depth of 2', why do they subtract the overburden γDf from qult to get qnet before applying the factor of safety to get...

Thanks for digging into it Milwaukee. So when you say that you can only use the CERM for shallow foundation equations, does that mean that you were getting the correct answer to the 6-Minute problem using that resource vs. Das? I also found that 6-minute solutions used the same equation for...

If you have this book, I could really use help resolving some issues with their solutions. I have edition 1, printing 1 and have added in the errata from the PPI site. In the solution to problem 38, 2nd paragraph on page 49: they state that the change in head for both layers of soil is...

Yes. The FE manual can be downloaded for free at: http://www.ppi2pass.com/ppi/PPIInfo_pg_ppirc-ppircfe.html The first section has some good basic mathematical formulas, and the Civil section has some lot's of good stuff too. It is more concise than CERM, so it can be helpful for a quick...

Good luck to you too. I signed up for the exam cafe today, and so far I think it will be helpful. You can run through timed sample exams for Breadth, PM-Structural, PM-Transportation & PM-WR/Env. For some reason, they took off the PM-Geotech from the timed exam, but the questions are all...

I am in Dr. Goswami's review course, and I passed along that you are trying to contact him regarding the sample exams. He said that there have been some server problems at the university, and some emails aren't getting through. That should be a valid email address. Just keep trying.

I was able to find the pre and post development 2-year peak discharge values, but got lost where he calculates the increased upland runoff depth for the two year storm using: (delta)Q=Q2-(qu1/qu2)Q1 = 1.13in. What was the point of calculating the qp values, and why is that ratio of the unit...

A little late, but my $0.02 on the HPs. I bought an HP-33 from ebay when I first began preparing. It does OK, but it is no where near the quality of older models. The display is harder to read (especially the decimal point), and as stated before, it just doesn't look or feel like an HP. So...