I have a theory as to why the Civil pass rate has fallen off for the past few sessions...Its because there is no longer a "Civil" afternoon portion of the test. There's no session that focuses on civil site, utilities, stormwater, or really development of any kind. The majority of my classroom experience and all of my work experience is in "civil engineering" (commercial/residential/municipal development) but I had to take a test that really didn’t cover any of those things. I chose the Transportation section, even though I had only one transportation class and zero experience in the workplace. I chose it because it seemed like it was the most intuitive for me to teach myself before sitting for the test. Every PE (5 of them) in my office took a "Civil" test and couldn't fathom that it no longer exists but I and soon to be 4 more EI's that work with me have to study something totally irrelevant in our current jobs in order to get our license. I don’t mean to be so “whiney” and I do understand that’s just part of it (and it’s probably a better format for the majority) but if I do have to take it again or when the other EI’s in my office take it for the first time it seems like it would add value to the license in general if we passed a test that proves competence in our area of practice rather than our ability to study…just my two cents