How difficult is the real exam from the NCEES sample test ?

Sebastian said:

In my opinion, the real exam was harder that the NCEES sample exam; particularly the afternoon (depth portion). I think the NCEES sample exam is the best available material to get you prepared on how problems are written (verbiage, etc...) and semi-accurate level of complexity. As a point of reference, when I was done with my studying ( I took EET as a prep course)...I was able to breeze through the sample exam ( missing around 6-7 questions overall); the actual exam was far tougher I thought. I was lucky enough to pass, but there were at least 5-6 problems in the depth portion where I was completely stumped and a several in the morning portion where I was able to narrow my answer to two choices instead of four. Good luck! Oh, and I did take the exam last OCT.

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Sebastian said:

In my opinion, the real exam was harder that the NCEES sample exam; particularly the afternoon (depth portion). I think the NCEES sample exam is the best available material to get you prepared on how problems are written (verbiage, etc...) and semi-accurate level of complexity. As a point of reference, when I was done with my studying ( I took EET as a prep course)...I was able to breeze through the sample exam ( missing around 6-7 questions overall); the actual exam was far tougher I thought. I was lucky enough to pass, but there were at least 5-6 problems in the depth portion where I was completely stumped and a several in the morning portion where I was able to narrow my answer to two choices instead of four. Good luck! Oh, and I did take the exam last OCT.

BARCA rules.

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roy167 said:

So far I have done Spinup, Complex Imaginary, Graffeo, ENgPROguide exams. A lot of people know spinup is very basic, leave that aside. Even in the other practice tests, I have not seen problems on equivalent diagrams of induction motor, transformer, AC/DC motors. Iron losses, copper losses, starting torque etc. I don't think these are terribly hard problems that exam won't ask. So the fact that these professional did not include in their exams is because the exam doesn't go to that level? 

You don't want to prepare on higher difficulty level and not being able to answer simple ones because your focus was different and you prepared it differently than what the exam asks you. 

I have done shorebook, chaya, and one of the camara exams. I remember there being more motor questions in those, I specifically remember there was an induction motor eq circuit question, but it just asked which one was for iduction motors. As long as you have some notes on refrences for motors i think youll be ok, the practice exam questions about torque/losses have been overwhelmingly conceptional. Basically asking about how speed, voltage, etc affects torque and vice versa

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