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In Texas (Mechanical TFS) for references I used a coworker (electrical PE), an old college professor (Mechanical PE), and a coworkers sister (Structural PE). I have not done extensive work under or with any of them. 

Relevant to 1&2: The syllabus is extremely accurate. If it says there will be 'cooling/heating load' problems  then it will be on the test guaranteed. My best advice is to study exactly what is on the syllabus with no exception (even non-core TFS problems like heating loads / bolts, welds...

I took it. 1. I never took the old exam so can't really compare but I think overall it will decrease studying time due to the narrower range of topics. You just have to really understand the material (can't plug-n-chug need to understand).  2. Yes. I was extremely particular about using the...

Those books are fine. I just passed TFS on the April exam with the new specs. What worked for me was doing all of the MERM companion problems related to the NCEES exam syllabus. Look at the exam specs and hit all problems that are on that list (including the ones mentioned that aren't core-TFS...

NCEES is pretty explicit that all questions are weighted the same. The other option is that they threw out a question. See below with results out of 79 instead of 80.  58/79 = 73.4% which rounds to 73%.  57/79=72.1% which rounds to 72%.

I passed TFS. References used: -MERM -Cameron Hydraulic Data - Lindberg Units Conversion book (used a ton) - Printed out steam tables in metric and us that were more detailed (less interpolation needed).  I studied 5months with maybe 2-8 hrs per week. Total I believe I put in 100ish hours...

I took mechanical Thermal Fluid Systems and felt very good about it after leaving -- although I had paranoid thoughts after that I had misbubbled or something.  Currently vacationing in Mexico so 98 tequilas para mi! 

Passed. 98! Woot! May have overstudied... Thank yall for the help. 

P.Eng is Canadian - much easier certification (no PE exam). 

Also strategically if they release it at the end of the day they don't have to field all the post results call deluge until tomorrow. (Source: I am also a lazy office worker) 

The other reason it might be longer is that certain tests (Mechanical) are no longer a breadth/depth format as of April 2017. I imagine it might take the psychometricians more time/pondering/black-magic to equate results due to such a radical difference in the test this time around. 

From the current TBPE newsletter. 100% increase in examinees after decoupling! 

I felt pretty good about passing TFS but feel it was a lot harder than practice exam. I finished the morning in 2 hrs and was able to go back and check each problem - I found 4 errors mostly stupid math or units related -lots of traps. The afternoon I finished in 3hr and checked some of the hard...

I had the same question on this problem.  I believe it is an error and reported it to NCEES early this week. 

I started this exam last weekend and stopped about 3/4 the way through. There are a lot of errors and some strange problems, some of which are quite time consuming. Ultimately I decided my last few days of studying are more effectively spent on more realistic exam type questions and so I stopped...

Agreed P-E and on my timed practices I selected this option for those reasons. However, looking at the pump curve in the question and selecting 65ft it is still very far off from the system curve (by a factor of 2). On the test I would probably burn a ton of time wondering what I am missing...

Hello, I do not understand the solution to this problem.  Problem and solution picture. My only explanation is that it is an error because the pump curve the show in the solution is different from the pump curve in the question. Thanks.

You might check out Dr. Tom's videos on that very topic. I found them helpful: http://drtomsclassroom.com/index.php/free-videos/94-exam-strategy-videos His recommendation is thermal/fluids unless you are doing daily work in HVAC or Machine Design. The reasoning is that the thermal/fluids is...

Thanks for the feedback -- I agree with JHW 3d and tbova. I did try to look up the errata and for whatever reason that portion of their site was down. I am amazed a problem like this survived from the 1st edition to the 2nd edition and only was caught after the fact. In summary I finished the...

Ok another 'counter example'. Suppose I have a pipe that branches to two locations as in the problem. One pipe has a flow of 1000gpm at a pressure drop of 1000psi. The other pipe has a flow of 1gpm at a pressure drop of 1psi. Using the 6MS equation: dp1*dp2/(dp1+dp2)=1psi. They would be saying...