Bman
Well-known member
So I took the Lindeburg sample exam this weekend (HVAC depth). I know this practice exam is a little harder than the actual, so I'm not too worried just yet. I got 31/80 correct and definitely identified some areas that I need to work on a bit more. I'm pretty sure I made some mistakes becuase I felt pretty confident in about half of the questions, but not sure until I go back and review.
My question is, should I: 1) take the next week to study up on areas that I know I was weak in and re-take the exam next weekend (without reviewing which problems I got right or wrong), or 2) spend the next week working out each of the problems and identifying where I went wrong?
I can see the benefit in both approaches and I'm leaning toward the first one even though I know my re-take score will be a little biased since I already took the exam, but I feel like spending that 8 hours taking the practice exam will help condition me to take the actual exam. Any thoughts on this?
I still have the 6 min solutions books to go through and I have the NCEES 2008 sample exam, but I am saving the NCEES exam until the week before the actual exam since the consensus seems to be that it is closer in difficulty to the actual exam. I also looked for the 2001 NCEES exam, but the cheapest I found it for was $175 on Amazon!!! No thanks....
My question is, should I: 1) take the next week to study up on areas that I know I was weak in and re-take the exam next weekend (without reviewing which problems I got right or wrong), or 2) spend the next week working out each of the problems and identifying where I went wrong?
I can see the benefit in both approaches and I'm leaning toward the first one even though I know my re-take score will be a little biased since I already took the exam, but I feel like spending that 8 hours taking the practice exam will help condition me to take the actual exam. Any thoughts on this?
I still have the 6 min solutions books to go through and I have the NCEES 2008 sample exam, but I am saving the NCEES exam until the week before the actual exam since the consensus seems to be that it is closer in difficulty to the actual exam. I also looked for the 2001 NCEES exam, but the cheapest I found it for was $175 on Amazon!!! No thanks....