Study Material for Civil Engineering FE EIT Exam

ayanhein said:

Hello everyone,
I'm planning to take FE/EIT exam in this coming October, and i have been looking for review courses, review books, and study guides that would help me pass the exam in the first attempt. I'm planning to go to summer quarter and study for EIT at the same time. So basically i do have 4 months to study and i think it should be enough.

Right now i'm planning to buy

1. FE review book by Landeburg ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159126072...;pf_rd_i=507846 ),

2. Register and do practice problems at www.eitexam.com

However, i do need a good Civil Discipline FE review course/book for my EIT exam. I've been looking for one for awhile and still yet not found it. Anyone of you have ever taken Civil FE afternoon exam and has studied good review book? please let me know. Thank you.

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ayanhein said:

Hello everyone,
I'm planning to take FE/EIT exam in this coming October, and i have been looking for review courses, review books, and study guides that would help me pass the exam in the first attempt. I'm planning to go to summer quarter and study for EIT at the same time. So basically i do have 4 months to study and i think it should be enough.

Right now i'm planning to buy

1. FE review book by Landeburg ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159126072...;pf_rd_i=507846 ),

2. Register and do practice problems at www.eitexam.com

However, i do need a good Civil Discipline FE review course/book for my EIT exam. I've been looking for one for awhile and still yet not found it. Anyone of you have ever taken Civil FE afternoon exam and has studied good review book? please let me know. Thank you.

Another source of review is this site

www.EITEXPERTS.com

They give 2 hours of free webinar on

" How to pass FE/EIT exam

All you have to do go to the main page click on the webinar

then role down, it will allow you to register. They have several options.

You have nothing to use, registe and see what they got to say, I did

just go to the site

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wvgirl14 said:

ayanhein said:

Hello everyone,
I'm planning to take FE/EIT exam in this coming October, and i have been looking for review courses, review books, and study guides that would help me pass the exam in the first attempt. I'm planning to go to summer quarter and study for EIT at the same time. So basically i do have 4 months to study and i think it should be enough.

Right now i'm planning to buy

1. FE review book by Landeburg ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159126072...;pf_rd_i=507846 ),

2. Register and do practice problems at www.eitexam.com

However, i do need a good Civil Discipline FE review course/book for my EIT exam. I've been looking for one for awhile and still yet not found it. Anyone of you have ever taken Civil FE afternoon exam and has studied good review book? please let me know. Thank you.

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There is not a whole lot of review material out there for the Civil afternoon. I reviewed with EITexam.com, Lindeburg's Civil Review manual and test, Kaplan Civil review manual, and someone recommend to me and I found it the most helpful I got the PE Practice test from NCEES and did the morning problems and the EIT Practice test from NCEES and that proved to be the biggest help of all. Review surveying and transportation because they are a big part of the exam and they tend to overlap.

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ayanhein said:

Another question please. As a civil engineer, which afternoon section would be better, Civil Discipline or General?

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hasan kababi said:

ayanhein said:

Another question please. As a civil engineer, which afternoon section would be better, Civil Discipline or General?

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Definitly general.

General is from the same subject which comes in the morning but more in depth, so for example if you study for the afternoon exam in depth the morning become peace of cake. You have limited resources (time) you want to put it on something with highest return.

Disciplin in my view is good when you know the subjects in your decipline so good that you do not have to study for them. But if you have to study why do not you pic something which is helpful in the morning as well.

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Mike in Gastonia said:

hasan kababi said:

ayanhein said:

Another question please. As a civil engineer, which afternoon section would be better, Civil Discipline or General?

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Definitly general.

General is from the same subject which comes in the morning but more in depth, so for example if you study for the afternoon exam in depth the morning become peace of cake. You have limited resources (time) you want to put it on something with highest return.

Disciplin in my view is good when you know the subjects in your decipline so good that you do not have to study for them. But if you have to study why do not you pic something which is helpful in the morning as well.

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Disagree. If I were a civil engineer, why would I want to subject myself to any additional questions in Thermo and electrical than I have to? I'd take the Civil.

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ayanhein said:

Another question please. As a civil engineer, which afternoon section would be better, Civil Discipline or General?

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Paul S said:

ayanhein said:

Another question please. As a civil engineer, which afternoon section would be better, Civil Discipline or General?

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You may be able to best answer that yourself by reviewing what topics will be on each exam at ncees.org. I don't think there is a benefit of taking one over the other, if you pass either one you have passed.

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ayanhein said:

wvgirl14 said:

ayanhein said:

Hello everyone,
I'm planning to take FE/EIT exam in this coming October, and i have been looking for review courses, review books, and study guides that would help me pass the exam in the first attempt. I'm planning to go to summer quarter and study for EIT at the same time. So basically i do have 4 months to study and i think it should be enough.

Right now i'm planning to buy

1. FE review book by Landeburg ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159126072...;pf_rd_i=507846 ),

2. Register and do practice problems at www.eitexam.com

However, i do need a good Civil Discipline FE review course/book for my EIT exam. I've been looking for one for awhile and still yet not found it. Anyone of you have ever taken Civil FE afternoon exam and has studied good review book? please let me know. Thank you.

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There is not a whole lot of review material out there for the Civil afternoon. I reviewed with EITexam.com, Lindeburg's Civil Review manual and test, Kaplan Civil review manual, and someone recommend to me and I found it the most helpful I got the PE Practice test from NCEES and did the morning problems and the EIT Practice test from NCEES and that proved to be the biggest help of all. Review surveying and transportation because they are a big part of the exam and they tend to overlap.

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For Lindeburg's Civil Review manual and test, are these the books?

http://www.amazon.com/Civil-Discipline-Spe..._pr_product_top

http://www.amazon.com/FE-EIT-Sample-Examin...d_bxgy_b_text_c

Your information is a great help to me. Thank you very much.

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ayanhein said:

Paul S said:

ayanhein said:

Another question please. As a civil engineer, which afternoon section would be better, Civil Discipline or General?

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You may be able to best answer that yourself by reviewing what topics will be on each exam at ncees.org. I don't think there is a benefit of taking one over the other, if you pass either one you have passed.

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The problem is that as a junior student, i've only taken courses which cover 55-65% of the Civil afternoon section. But on the other hand, in general section, electricity and thermodynamics are the subjects that i need to study additionally. So i think i'll have a big portion of guess in the exam.

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hasan kababi said:

ayanhein said:

Paul S said:

ayanhein said:

Another question please. As a civil engineer, which afternoon section would be better, Civil Discipline or General?

Click to expand...

You may be able to best answer that yourself by reviewing what topics will be on each exam at ncees.org. I don't think there is a benefit of taking one over the other, if you pass either one you have passed.

Click to expand...

The problem is that as a junior student, i've only taken courses which cover 55-65% of the Civil afternoon section. But on the other hand, in general section, electricity and thermodynamics are the subjects that i need to study additionally. So i think i'll have a big portion of guess in the exam.

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You have to take Thermodynamic and electricity in the morning also. So if you are really strong in your dicipline it is a good idea to take CE. But if you have to put a lot of time to review the CE material you might as well concentrate on Thermo because that can help you in the morning also.

So I agree with paul S. The only person who can answer this is yourself. Depond on how strong you are in CE courses . You may want to consider taking a review class to help you. But in selecting a review class you have to be very careful and select the one which really help you. If they have sample lecture or offer a free service or class you can first see how they are then decide. usually classes which offer free sample lecture or free service have confidence that they do a good job. By trying a free service you may decide if that is for you or not, and you will not lose anything.

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wvgirl14 said:

ayanhein said:

wvgirl14 said:

ayanhein said:

Hello everyone,
I'm planning to take FE/EIT exam in this coming October, and i have been looking for review courses, review books, and study guides that would help me pass the exam in the first attempt. I'm planning to go to summer quarter and study for EIT at the same time. So basically i do have 4 months to study and i think it should be enough.

Right now i'm planning to buy

1. FE review book by Landeburg ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159126072...;pf_rd_i=507846 ),

2. Register and do practice problems at www.eitexam.com

However, i do need a good Civil Discipline FE review course/book for my EIT exam. I've been looking for one for awhile and still yet not found it. Anyone of you have ever taken Civil FE afternoon exam and has studied good review book? please let me know. Thank you.

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There is not a whole lot of review material out there for the Civil afternoon. I reviewed with EITexam.com, Lindeburg's Civil Review manual and test, Kaplan Civil review manual, and someone recommend to me and I found it the most helpful I got the PE Practice test from NCEES and did the morning problems and the EIT Practice test from NCEES and that proved to be the biggest help of all. Review surveying and transportation because they are a big part of the exam and they tend to overlap.

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For Lindeburg's Civil Review manual and test, are these the books?

http://www.amazon.com/Civil-Discipline-Spe..._pr_product_top

http://www.amazon.com/FE-EIT-Sample-Examin...d_bxgy_b_text_c

Your information is a great help to me. Thank you very much.

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Yes I used those to book. And these:

This one is a must

FE Supplied-Reference Handbook

http://www.ncees.org/Exams/Study_materials.php?exam=FE

http://www.kaplanaecengineering.com/kaplan...uct_detail.aspx

FE Civil Sample Questions and Solutions Book

http://www.ncees.org/Exams/Study_materials.php?exam=FE

PE Civil Sample Questions and Solutions Book

http://www.ncees.org/Exams/Study_materials.php?exam=PE

For the morning I used

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159126072...;pf_rd_i=507846

http://www.amazon.com/Barrons-FE-Fundament...1033&sr=8-1

(This one has some errors in it, but the probability section is pretty good)

I agree with Mike. Everyone is different, but I have taken both and felt more comfortable with civil. People tell you General so you want have to study more, but the afternoon General is no cake walk. Look at both get the NCEES practice test and see what you feel you are the most comfortable doing.

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oluade said:

hasan kababi said:

ayanhein said:

Paul S said:

ayanhein said:

Another question please. As a civil engineer, which afternoon section would be better, Civil Discipline or General?

Click to expand...

You may be able to best answer that yourself by reviewing what topics will be on each exam at ncees.org. I don't think there is a benefit of taking one over the other, if you pass either one you have passed.

Click to expand...

The problem is that as a junior student, i've only taken courses which cover 55-65% of the Civil afternoon section. But on the other hand, in general section, electricity and thermodynamics are the subjects that i need to study additionally. So i think i'll have a big portion of guess in the exam.

Click to expand...

You have to take Thermodynamic and electricity in the morning also. So if you are really strong in your dicipline it is a good idea to take CE. But if you have to put a lot of time to review the CE material you might as well concentrate on Thermo because that can help you in the morning also.

So I agree with paul S. The only person who can answer this is yourself. Depond on how strong you are in CE courses . You may want to consider taking a review class to help you. But in selecting a review class you have to be very careful and select the one which really help you. If they have sample lecture or offer a free service or class you can first see how they are then decide. usually classes which offer free sample lecture or free service have confidence that they do a good job. By trying a free service you may decide if that is for you or not, and you will not lose anything.

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For making the decision, you are on a right track. However, you need to determine if you are prepared to

study an obscure area totally different from your discipline such as thermodynamic. if you are planning to take your PE in a short time, then i will advise you to take CE because this willl help you in PE as well.

believe me, ME is more at advantage with general. That is my opinion anyway. Best of luck.

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