First time around studying I worked through:
-School of PE materials
-NCEES practice test
-Graffeo
-Power PE practice test
Luckily, at work I use Horowitz' power system relaying, code manuals(NEC, NESC, etc), Blackburn's protective relaying, and Wilids' machine textbook. My equation binder/sheets came from the free version of Eng Pro Guide's cheat sheets that I marked all over.
Since I have supplemented with practice problems from:
-PPI(I find them to be more difficult but maybe too much detail for this exam)
-Zach Stone's practice test and technical guide (wish I had this from the get go, he does a great job).
And I bought the Eng Pro Guide full technical study guide and cheat sheets. Much much better than the free version(flow charts for NEC are clutch) and have transferred my scribbles over LOL. I think I also straight memorized what to do for certain topics(rectifier circuits and VSD especially) instead of learning so I am fixing that.
I feel like I have too many textbooks when I mainly reference Eng Pro guide maybe too much? I'll widdle it down over the next 12 weeks to have a milk crate's worth of stuff. PPI seems like overkill and SoPE does a good job but some of the practice problems seem like examples and not exam difficultly, great notes and text though. I find myself watching Zach Stone's videos more and more often. Love a good breakdown.
Sorry for the wall of text but what about yourself?
Walls of text are great... Here's mine.
Last time I worked through Graffeo first. It was a good review since i've been out of school 8+ yrs.
Found Zach's course and signed up for it. Went through the entire course and filled up 3 notebooks with notes on all the videos and examples. I tabbed all those and reference them a lot. Ill probably skim through the course again over the next month and retake the quizzes. And it looks like Zach has added new stuff too!
I created a binder with all of the live class and formula sheets for Zach's class. I mostly use this binder for reference.
When i bought EngProGuides technical guide, i put it into its own binder, divided by subject. I need to go through the formula sheets though.
I also have Zach's exam, and all 3 of EPG's exams in their own 1/2 inch binders. I did all of these the last round, and plan to take them again.
I bought the Cram book and all exams which are excellent and totally recommend since i dont see it in your list. I only completed the first exam before the test was cancelled so i have the other 3 to take. Ill probably do one over a week instead of timed, and the other 2 as timed practice tests.
I went through 1 exam in Complex Imaginary... The exam was easier, but the code drill book was great practice. I plan to use these as practice problems.
Ive got a binder full of extra references, and plan to add more to it!
I read/skimmed a lot of Wildi last round, and i finally got a hardcopy of Blackburn in April, so im planning to skim through and tab it.
I went through several of the protection chapters and examples in the Glover book last round and plan to repeat that.
Also have the ncees practice test which i plan to take again too.
I do not have the PPI stuff like you do - i keep hearing mixed reviews about it.
Overall, ive got 3 milk crates, but 2 are mostly extra stuff. Gonna roll a dolly into the exam!
maybe that's why i've been doing poorly on all the econ problems!
