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Sorry for the late reply to this thread. I was down in the dumps and 100% sure I failed... so I didnt even check my results (then Id have to explain to everyone how I failed, better luck next time, blah blah blah). But I just found out I passed! Not sure how thats possible... I know for a fact...

Agreed. The board legal council sent me this email to use: I am approving you to use your 2 years of exam study, prep and taking both the components of the SE exam to meet your PDH requirement for the renewal cycle of 10/1/17 through 9/30/19. If necessary to submit proof for the 2017-2019 PDH...

While we wait for our results, just wanted to let you all know, if you are trying to get your continuuing ed satisfied - I just had mine waived for studying and taking both parts of this exam. I didnt take a class. I was told I am the first person to ask this question. So just goes to show that...

Made me lol - im embarrased to say Ive thought the same...always good when we get paid to study! By the way, those luxury condos are to serve as shelter from zombies during the next nuclear war. Thats auto SDC G (apocalypse exception - gotta see aashto for that one).

Think of a cmu wall like a cantilevered beam. Height of the wall is like the span length of the beam. Cross section is always length of the wall x thickness. Vertical bars are your long reinf and horiz bars are like your stirrups. As in a beam, your horiz reinf is calculated over a spacing...

Maybe all that studying and exam failures are worth it in the end?  Maybe, just maybe... by developing such a horribly written, poorly graded, asinine exam, it was the intention of NCEES all along to have each one of us delve deeper into our inner selves - to find meaning in our endeavors, and...

Just use an old one you never plan on using for anything else. Ive used the same for PE, SE1 and SE2 and its about ready to disintegrate. Dont do what 1 guy at my testing site did, which is carry them all in by hand.

That would be incredible. Id pay a handsome sum if you could get this thing published by the time next year's test rolls around. For reals though - one thing that really hurts is not having a text book covering the lateral design and analysis situations. You people keep hating on SERM, but it...

FutureSE for president? Got my vote! Part of me thinks some of their questions are truly thoughtful and open-ended, where they are attempting to gauge if there is a concensus on the interpretation of the codes (example: see the solution to the brace base plate punching shear question in the...

What are the chances NCEES makes the switch to 2016 ASCE7 and AISC? I know the 2010 ASCE7 seems rather dated, but most states adopted 2015 IBC which references 2010 ASCE so maybe they wont switch yet? I ask because I borrowed from an ex coworker, and im wondering whether to give him back his...

"Maximum moment" could mean plastic moment or elastic moment, factored nominal moment, allowable service moment, since it was steel - expected moment. Plus in either direction - or square root sum if SDC D or 1+0.3 if part of a bridge. Definitely not reduntant, but turns out 70% of you missed...

As for the rest of the exam, definitely harder than I had anticipated. I passed vertical last year and felt like it was fairly straightforward. I told my wife I aced it after I finished. But not this time! Think I straight up guessed on about 10 in the AM (worst feeling in the world is to "know"...

I literally have had nightmares every night since the exam about this problem. I wake up thinking I figured it out, but realize it was just dream logic. Without being too specific, I clearly remember the question asking us to find the "minimum" x. Whats messed up is you go through ELF and get...

PASSED! FUCK YEA!!!! (assuming its finally official) So... now what?

Didn't hear that, it was second hand though - too afraid to ask the poor guy himself...

Well that makes me feel better that NJ had some glitch "fail" (poor souls)... Not to scare anyone though, but last year a coworker "passed" and even got a license number before PCS contacted him and said he failed.... now THAT sucks.

Is there anyone who saw the glitch, but it said they failed? Just worried now that the glitch defaulted to "pass" for everyone, and they are updating those who "failed"

aaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnddddd its gawn.... all gawn.... Said i passed. Glad i took a picture. Now its just blank.

Thanks for your help choyos! much appreciated! Another question for the PPI sample exam by lindeburg.... The solution to problem 154 sets the weld strength equal to shear rupture in the plate. Doesn't shear yielding need to be checked for this as well? I found that the plate actually needs to...

For the solution for question 138 in the Lindeburg PE sample exam: why is the equation for the stiffness 12EI/L^3 for each column? The problem asks you to idealize the structure as a cantilever, so shouldn't the stiffness be 3EI/L^3 for each column (like a cantilevered beam)? They account for...