Encourage someone studying for October

[Road Guy]

dont know as far as the PM ENV goes, but I just worked all the AM 6 minute solutions, and I think most of them were much harder than what was on the AM portion last time (April). Maybe there were 2 or 3 that were "close" to the AM section of the exam.

Doubt that applies to the PM Section, but I wouldn imagine they make the 6 minute solutions a little tougher than whats on the exam.

 

[petergibbons]

Doubt that applies to the PM Section, but I wouldn imagine they make the 6 minute solutions a little tougher than whats on the exam.

I studied the 6 min. solutions for WR and I thought those problems were a lot harder than the problems in the PM portion.

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

I am taking the environmental PE exam in October and was wondering if the six minute solutions for the environmental part of the civil exam was worth getting? Are the questions approriate, is the style the same? Will it be a benefit to me?

I took and passed the Envl PE exam in April. I did not use the Civil PE 6-minute solutions at all.

I don't know if they approach the problems from the same angle, but I figured I'd get references/study guides specific to the Envl exam.

Also, the style is different. The civil exam has 80 questions - 6 minutes per problem. The envl exam has 100 - <5 minutes per problem. There's more regulatory and qualitative questions that you can answer quicker.

Another thing is that the envl afternoon section of the civil exam seems to hit mainly water and wastewater. The full envl exam has your air quality, solid/haz wastes, risk assessment, OSHA stuff, etc.

I'd suggest getting the 101 Solved Environmental Engineering Problems, and the PPI publication with the 3 practice exams.

I used 101 Problems to learn the material, see what's on it, gauge level of difficulty, and assemble my references for test day.

I then did the practice exams under test like conditions with an eye on time and only using references I already set aside. (No peaking at answers or dragging out a book I hadn't planned to bring.) :true:

Good luck. :???:

 

[Seajay]

Less than sixty days to go! Its your choice if the light at the end of the tunnel is the exit or the PE train barrelling forward to railroad you. Hit those books!

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

8 weeks from tomorrow, you will drag every book you ever owned to some stuffy, cramped testing room, all by 7 AM.

Your proctors will be an old battleaxe of a woman, and a militant ex-drill sergeant.

Your seat will be hard and uncomfortable. And inevitably, will screech like hell any time you move.

You'll spend 15-20 minutes building a fortress around you of your reference material.

Then you'll sit another 15 or 20 minutes and just wait. The sight of everyone else in the room shitting a brick will do wonders for your mental state.

Then the proctor will read each direction in excrucianting detail, as you bubble in your name and address with your hand shaking like mad.

Then you start taking the actual exam, which compared to the rest, is the easy part. :suicide:

 

[Road Guy]

The head proctor for our test was actually fairly attractive, young girl, probably around 25 or so.

I highly regret not asking her out for a drink after the exam last time.

This October there will be no regrets :BK:

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

We had two proctors. Both of them worked at the college in the town where the exam was held.

You could tell they'd both done this a million times. They were real straight shooters and decent people. Made the experience much more tolerable.

 

[TouchDown]

For everyone preparing for the exam...

You can definately do it if you put your mind to it. Keep up the studying and work problems, work problems, work problems.

Never give up on your dreams. If having P.E. after your name is something you're shooting for, stick to it and keep going.

Never forget the words of Dave Chappel: "mmmm mmmm Bitch!"

That's right. Make this test your bitch. :study

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

^ Tron, P.E.

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

You guys need more encouragement?

My second stamp came in the mail today. We won't worry about the fac tthat it got delivered to my neighbor's house instead of mine. But, I can now double fist it!

:???:

All that fun and more can be yours... :study

 

[TouchDown]

Month and a half left people!!!!!

Just keep chanting, "you can do it" in cajun accent.

Work those problems, show them who's boss.

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

Work those problems, show them who's boss. 

Tony Danza, bitches!

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

You want to know something else cool you can do once you get your PE stamp?

I had to bring in a couple old hydrology textbooks to the office to use as references on a stormwater management design we're working on. I wanted to put my name in there so they wouldn't wander off.

So, I stamped the inside cover. ;guns;

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

6 weeks left your sorry excuses for engineers! :thatsgay: Go study!

 

[TouchDown]

Don't make me come in there to make you study!!! Fool. :fool:

 

[EdinNO]

Get off the porn sites and on the reference books! "oldtimer"

 

[cement]

quit spammin and start crammin! ;hea18

 

[Fudgey]

I'm partway through some practice tests, doing OK.

I'm gonna do the full blown NCEES practice test in a couple weeks, then cool down with some light review as the big day comes.

Get off the porn sites and on the reference books! 

I've got plenty of time for both. I learned all I need to know about "hot mix ass-phalt" from porn sites.

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

^ I think the only way you have that kinda time is if you're in jail, or dead.

 

[DVINNY]

I know it Sapper, you hit the nail on the head.

I need a wife that isn't so **** good looking. Anytime both kids are asleep, I ain't thinkin' bout studying, if you know what I mean.