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I actually created a Civil PE poll with some of these statistics a few threads back. There should be some people who answered what their diagnostic scores were...check it out! I think it's a link in my profile, not sure...

 
I never heard stuff like that for scores, but I do feel for female engineers. There are a lot of people who feel that female engineers get interviews/jobs because they are such a minority and many question whether a female earned the position or was awarded it. It's an awful mindset and I'm glad that there are more and more female engineers graduating because it helps dispel the nonsense.
I can't speak for every workplace nor every discipline, however females definitely carry more weight in the interview/hiring process where I work. Diversity is huge and meeting numbers trumps output any day of the week. Like it or not,the lack of females in industry absolutely helps them out...

 
 


Knowledge Area 


100% SCORE


Score weight % of each area


Total # on exam 


Your Scaled Score


your actual correct #


1


Principles: Basic Engineering Practice


100


16.67


6


67


4


2


Principles: Fluid Mechanicas


100


16.67


6


33


2


3


Principles: Heat Transfer Priniples 


100


16.67


6


17


1


4


Principles: Mass Transfer Priniples 


100


25.00


4


50


2


5


Principles: Thermodymamics


100


16.67


6


50


3


6


Principles: Supportive Knowledge


100


25.00


4


75


3


7


Hydraulic & Fluids: Application


100


6.67


15


13


2


8


Hydraulic & Fluids: Equipment


100


11.11


9


44


4


9


Energy and Power System Applications Equipment


100


12.50


8


13


1


10


Energy and Power System Applications Heating and Cooling


100


16.67


6


33


2


11


Energy and Power System Applications Wast heat and Storage


100


20.00


5


20


1


12


Energy and Power System Applications Combined Cycles


100


20.00


5


20


1


 


 


1200


 


80


435


26


 


 


 


 


 


36.2% equal to score of reported 51

 
I have NEVER heard of female engineers getting any extra points. I think this is silly and likely very incorrect.
Ah, but that isn't what I typed.  I was referring to the admissions push.  Good for you if you didn't realize it was going on, but as a female engineer in a highly selective college that was trying to boost the female engineer numbers, I ran it to that quite a bit.  Actually, I worked in the admissions office for a while and saw it first hand.  I'm not trying to put female engineers down (being one, I actually think we're awesome...), but I do think there's a point here.  If you try too hard to get people in the door (by making it easier), it undermines that group's credibility.

 
Ah, but that isn't what I typed.  I was referring to the admissions push.  Good for you if you didn't realize it was going on, but as a female engineer in a highly selective college that was trying to boost the female engineer numbers, I ran it to that quite a bit.  Actually, I worked in the admissions office for a while and saw it first hand.  I'm not trying to put female engineers down (being one, I actually think we're awesome...), but I do think there's a point here.  If you try too hard to get people in the door (by making it easier), it undermines that group's credibility.
Well then I agree fully with you - women in STEM are needed and should be boosted in heavily male dominant occupations. I am a civil engineer and there were few women in my classes and even fewer in my office (and I work for the Feds). My daughter is studying aerospace engineering and I worry about her being in male dominated classes and hope she is not undermined or looked down upon for being a woman.

I did not go back to your original post - but thought someone was alluding to women receiving extra points on the PE exam. Maybe it is just my nerves from waiting for my exam results are making me see things.

I apologize and did not mean to come across as adversarial.

 
My diagnostics report showed that I missed alot of problems that I felt strong on.  I need to sharpen up my test taking skills and be disciplined enough to spend a little time to double check answers.  I felt like I wasted too much time trying to find solutions for the questions that I had no prayer on.  A few silly mistakes in the morning and afternoon could have helped change that red fail box into a green pass box.  Good luck everyone for the October exam


Geotechnical 50/80, excellent morning, and a pathetic afternoon depth performance.  
Dude, I feel you. Morning went well and the PM was absolutely absurd. Missed 20 in the PM, and 8 in the AM. Total correct for me was 52. Im devastated to have to do this agin. 100's of hrs and $1000's gone. I took School of PE, it failed me in the PM. I think I'm going to try EET for October. 

 
I totally bombed the pe structural; 42/80

will study harder and more. I guess it's ok for someone who has never worked as a structural engineer 

 

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