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Mine was black, and I passed so I assume that was one of the easier ones.

NJ passed with red = Easiest

I passed with Black = Easy

A few others passed with Blue = medium

This time was green. I don't remember seeing anyone here who passed with green...
easy or hard, it still says PE after my name. I'll take it

 
they are my favorite pencils of all time though. I took the FE in april of 2002 and still use the pencil, just keep refilling the 0.7.

 
I retired my PE exam pencil. It hangs in my office right next to the exam authorization from when I passed.

 
I didn't know I was supposed to keep my pencil. :(

I also didn't join eb.com until about a month after I took the exam.

 
I didn't join until a month after taking the pe exam too. test Oct 06 joined eb nov 06

 
I am so old that I took the EIT with my own goddamn pencil




they are my favorite pencils of all time though. I took the FE in april of 2002 and still use the pencil, just keep refilling the 0.7.




Yup, I took the FE in Oct '01 which was the last time an examinee would use his/her own pencil.

I used a Papermate 0.5mm brushed aluminum body with a black rubber (Goodyear?) grip and one of those little rubber accordion things over the eraser cap.

 
"back in my day, we had to mine our own graphite and construct our own pencils to take the exam"

 
Ha, back in my day, we had to grow papyrus, harvest it, press it, and dry it to make the paper. Then we had to squeeze berries to make ink. Then we had to write out the exam questions and have them reviewed by a disinterested third party. Then we could sit for the exam.

 
Has NCEES ever said that they "throw out" questions? Or is this one of those urban myths like the infamous "70" is a percentage and not just scale score?


Yes, it is stated in the video.
Watch it again. It only says the questions are reviewed by a panel who then adjust the score accordingly. Nothing about throwing out questions.

 
And just to keep it on everyone's mind:

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I think my point has gotten lost b/c I did not do a good job explaining.

Let say 5 questions (out of 80) are thrown out before scoring the exam and an arbitrary (I am making this up) score of 53 correct (after problems removed) is chosen as the passing # for this exam.

If you had 54 questions correct (before the 5 problems were removed) but 2 of the 54 originally correct were thrown out, your correct score # is 52 = fail.

If you had 54 questions correct (before the 5 problems were removed) and 0 of the 54 originally correct were thrown out, your correct score # is 54 = pass.

That's what I meant by "if thrown out, hurts your chances of passing."

Bottom line as previously said, get as many correct as possible!

 
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