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That's sad to hear. It sounds at this point that PPI should just stop doing the SE review courses and stick to PE review courses if they're not willing to put the effort into the course.

Improvement is always worth it. As long as you're improving another try is worth it. Nice achievement! Ugh, I remember that feeling. Thanks for reminding me of the dread I felt when I received my emails. Dang. You going into battle again? Always a good surprise, congrats! Woohoo! Third try...

Interesting thought on the afternoon scoring (scored 1 to 10). This might be correct given how we supposedly have one person confident they got an unacceptable on an afternoon and passed. I always assumed that there was no "range" of scores that "acceptable" got you but looking at how each...

I've used both a lot. I prefer RISA hands down to STAAD in almost every way. RISA can be legally shared between myself and my partners office on a single license. Thus, our $5,600 is more like $2,300 so at 10 years we're still ahead on RISA. Bentley's license department is evil. RISA used to...

Darn, yeah just take the PE and at least get the license stuff out of the way. Good to have it anyway since there are a few states that require you to have your PE to get licensed no matter what (NJ for example).

What? I have a Florida PE license and I've never taken the PE. Granted, Florida wasn't my first state so maybe that's the hold up? See if you can get licensed in another state first and then licensed by comity in Florida.

In case someone missed it, here's the previous passing rates compared to David's post of this last exams passing rates. Looks like bridge lateral and vertical buildings were difficult this year.

I mentioned it earlier in this thread but we've never had good indications whether it was possible until now. You would have to be very confident you got AAAU on the afternoon to "confirm" it. We did theorize that a really high morning score would get you a passing score but we had failing...

I like your humor and agree with you more than generally I'd like to admit. I 100% agree with **** NCEES, but my anger stems from their records debacle. For me I passed the SE when I felt I deserved to pass so that's been my experience; however you're not the first person to feel unfairly...

This is almost unbelievable. About the only way I can see this passing is if you nailed the multiple choice. I was unable to find someone who felt they had nailed a multiple choice  and got an unacceptable a afternoon problem. I've always wondered if this was considered a passing score by NCEES...

I had no idea that was an older song. Heard a nice remix of it recently and loved it, so catchy.

I loved the tech briefs for studying and did bring printouts along in my notes.

Another vote for the Casio FX-115ES. I tried a bunch of different calculators and ended up loving this one. Gave me my fastest, most consistent input and helped me catch errors. Liked it so much that I have two and use them as my main work calculator.

I just want to thank everyone for reminding me why I'm so glad I'll never have to take that exam again. :P Good luck, guys and gals; lot of great advice here and I love seeing the comradery twice a year.

Oh it is that time of year, isn't it! Good luck everyone; don't study too hard and enjoy your surplus of free time after exam day(s).

Good advice tj. We're also in a rush to get it permitted; I'll see what our code enforcement official says when we submit for permit. I should have enough time to try running the entire bottom area as R = 1.5 and I'll see if seismic controls over wind; should at least give me a better idea of...

Kind of my thought; essentially I'm modeling the steel piles as fixed 5 feet below grade. Thus, they do have some cantilevered capacity with works with the cable bracing in my structural model. If I ignore the piles the structure turns into a three-sided structure though, so I am relying on the...

Interesting topic. I have a building structure supported on steel screw piles in a low-seismic region I'm working on right now. Screw piles extend out of the ground and I have cable bracing between posts. I'm designing it for an R = 3 but I'm kind of blending my lateral resistance from the...

Agreed, I'd just bring the structural pages and if you wanted to really cut down on the printing you could cut out a good bit of the structural sections that you don't feel are required.

The index is your friend! Print it out and put it in it's own binder (or put it at the front of each AASHTO binder you have).