Failure Thread

[THUDore]

Hang in there guys and gals! Keep your chin up and don't give up.

I tried my SE1 couple times and I passed this time! What a releaf to finally throw this monkey off my back and face the future with more open doors!

When I think back, this is really the first time I had time to really sit down to study - I was fortunate enough to get laid off 20 days before the exam. Turned out to be a really layoff for me: I don't have to work for the company I don't like and I had my time to prepare for my exam.

After the exam, I was 100% sure I passed this time - I got about 30 minutes left in the morning and about an hour in the afternoon. I kinda thought the exam became easier but later on I found out the passing rate was just as low as before and people here told me that the exam was just as hard - 48% for first timers and only 25% for repeaters.

So my advice is that you take at least a week off from your work before the exam and sleep well before the exam. You will pass sooner or later.

 

[hansel]

I envy you THUDore. It was my second try too. I gave in the time and I felt very prepared. I felt that I got it this time but the results came back negative. I was so disapointed but I will take it again come October.

 

[polat-alemdar]

Hang in there guys and gals! Keep your chin up and don't give up.
I tried my SE1 couple times and I passed this time! What a releaf to finally throw this monkey off my back and face the future with more open doors!

When I think back, this is really the first time I had time to really sit down to study - I was fortunate enough to get laid off 20 days before the exam. Turned out to be a really layoff for me: I don't have to work for the company I don't like and I had my time to prepare for my exam.

After the exam, I was 100% sure I passed this time - I got about 30 minutes left in the morning and about an hour in the afternoon. I kinda thought the exam became easier but later on I found out the passing rate was just as low as before and people here told me that the exam was just as hard - 48% for first timers and only 25% for repeaters.

So my advice is that you take at least a week off from your work before the exam and sleep well before the exam. You will pass sooner or later.

This was my first try and I failed SE1. : (

Man, I am very dissapointed. I don't think I have enough energy left to get up and study again.

What makes the whole thing worse is I felt like I got at least 60 questions right when I left the exam room.

I ran the percentage numbers in the "diagnostic report" and I figure I only got 44 or 45 of the questions right. Big dissapointment.

How much do I need to pass - it is totally different story...

 

[goodal]

How many people felt confident that they had passed when they left the April 2009 exam?

When i left i knew in my head how many could have been wrong. If i had doubled that i still would have passed so i felt pretty confident that i passed (which as it turns out i did). Although, I never jinxed it by saying i knew i had passed, because you just never know...

 

[GR84W8]

When i left i knew in my head how many could have been wrong. If i had doubled that i still would have passed so i felt pretty confident that i passed (which as it turns out i did). Although, I never jinxed it by saying i knew i had passed, because you just never know...

Ha, i'm a huge believer in the jinx. i refused to discuss how "i felt i did" AT ALL, WITH ANYONE!!!

 

[nostradumbass]

Yeah, I missed it as well this time.

Congrats to all who did pass, though

 

[craftlady07]

I have to take it again for the 3rd time - environmental. I hate air pollution control and waste management

 

[bridgewoman7]

See you all (for my 2nd go-around for PA PE) in October 2009!

 

[hp32si]

Failed Struc 1 Third time---- I will be taking the general civil in October!!!!! Why take the Struc 1 in Tenn if you can't leaglly call yourself a SE---DUHHHHHHHH

 

[yel38]

:smileyballs: Failed ... 1st try. Civil PE construction. I don't think I am going to try again. Project management is what I like to do and I don't need a PE for that. Good luck everyone!!!!

Don't give up.

I thought so too the first time.

Even in construction management PE is valued. You don't want to regret this decision down the road.

 

[buick455]

When i left i knew in my head how many could have been wrong. If i had doubled that i still would have passed so i felt pretty confident that i passed (which as it turns out i did). Although, I never jinxed it by saying i knew i had passed, because you just never know...

Mechanial- Machine Design

I did the same thing and kept coming up with about 10-12 I figured I got wrong. Last time it was 20-25 and I had got a 65. With this in mind I figured I passed but I did not. I have not received the diagnostic report yet. Il can not believe after studying another 3.5 months I did not raise my grade 5 points. Something just does not seam right but it is what it is. I started studying the night I found out.

 

[TBSS]

Failed the electrical PE for the second time. I'm still waiting for the letter with my score and my diagnostic report. I got a 68 the first time and was certain I did better by 2 points and passed on my second attempt even though I went in not expecting to pass because my wife delivered twin boys 3 weeks before the exam so I didn't study one bit those last 3 weeks. Started studying again yesterday because I'm going to kick this exam's a$$ in October.

 

[vhmehta]

Failed the electrical PE for the second time. I'm still waiting for the letter with my score and my diagnostic report. I got a 68 the first time and was certain I did better by 2 points and passed on my second attempt even though I went in not expecting to pass because my wife delivered twin boys 3 weeks before the exam so I didn't study one bit those last 3 weeks. Started studying again yesterday because I'm going to kick this exam's a$$ in October.

Congrats on your twins and this is the exact attitude I am going have if I fail the exam this time... (I am in MD and still waiting).

 

[TBSS]

Congrats on your twins and this is the exact attitude I am going have if I fail the exam this time... (I am in MD and still waiting).

Thanks! I hope that you get good news and don't have to worry about taking the exam again.

 

[buick455]

Maybe we need to re-name this thread to "did not pass this time" instead of "failure" as I do not think anyone that put effort into studying, took this exam, and then waited 3 months to get the results as a failure. I sure is hell did better that the ones that did not take the effort to go through this process.

 

[nashbmattPE]

Maybe we need to re-name this thread to "did not pass this time" instead of "failure" as I do not think anyone that put effort into studying, took this exam, and then waited 3 months to get the results as a failure. I sure is hell did better that the ones that did not take the effort to go through this process.

I agree with buick455. Failure would be not trying again if you didn't pass or never trying at all if you are capable.

 

[chekkmate]

i totally agree!! Especially because i'm still waiting on results!

 

[worried46]

Failed.....May try again. Congrats to all who passed.

To all who failed: DON'T THINK LESS OF YOURSELF...JUST THINK OF YOURSELF LESS OFTEN

 

[BPE07]

Failed.....May try again. Congrats to all who passed.
To all who failed: DON'T THINK LESS OF YOURSELF...JUST THINK OF YOURSELF LESS OFTEN

Don't give up...You will get it next time.

 

[vhmehta]

I am officially dumb!

I have failed at my first attempt at SE1 and now my confidence is shattered and I think I will fail again in October!

I really thought I had passed the exam and was shocked not to see my name on the list.... I have not received diagnostic report yet....

Don't know what to do........