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Clearly an error in my planning and prep was not leaving enough time at the end to do a lot of problems and doing a mock exam with nothing but the reference material compiled.  I didn't know my way around my own material well enough for test day.    

What I've seen and experienced with PPI was disappointing.  A little concerning when prepping for a big exam.  For the paper exam I felt Dr. Tom concentrated an awful lot on making the binders and during the exam I felt I had too much ref material.  Could have been that my material was not well...

I had started re-prepping for the ME Machine Design exam back around January.  Then this COVID stuff hit and I stopped.  At that time I was using the PPI online prep kit.  Not a course, but quiz problems and additional problems available online.  PPI seems to suggest doing problems in every...

I bought the new books for the Machine Design PE, practice problem book and updated MERM.  The practice problems just became available.  Each chapter of the MERM has sections relating to the NCEES Handbook.  They're highlighted in blue.  At the start I thought these were the only sections I...

Do I "want" a PE, eh, it's a big thing with my employer now but we don't need it to do the work.  It's more of a status thing applied by our new prez and it's only a $2/hr raise.  The "want" for me would be to put myself with the rest of the workforce.  It "may" help me moving on, but my days of...

I'm here again.  Took the Machine Design two Aprils ago with an unfortunate outcome.  Used Dr. Tom's review course, but my score was awful.  I'm now 30yrs out of school and 26yrs from my EIT.  I don't "need" the PE for my job, it's suggested, but not a requirement, but the young folks are taking...