Personally I found NCEES practice exam(s), and the ENG PRO GUIDES to be the most similar to the test. I used six minute solutions and Slay the P.E. for deeper dives into concepts I struggled with. I had the MERM practice problems book and didn't open it one time so not sure if it would have been...
ME - TFS - First Time Taker - Pass
Finished both sessions feeling wishy-washy on ~5 questions per session. Felt like there were only two questions where I had no idea. Other than that I felt really good about all of my solution paths and left the exam with a distinct feeling that I had done...
We may not have corresponded directly but your activity around the rest of the forum helped in a lot of aspects. There was a lot of others as well, but for some reason your name stood out the most prominently.
Passed on the first time! Thanks to @Slay the P.E. @Audi driver, P.E. and all of the other contributors to this forum. The amount of resources and knowledge available here is invaluable and was certainly instrumental in my result.
Congrats to everyone else who passed this round!
Mechanical - TFS - 1st Time Pass! So stoked.
To answer your question, you are correct. According to the DOL they will send license numbers and certificates out after passing.
Congrats!
Cruised through the morning session and finished with about an hour and a half left on the clock. Double checked a couple of things but in general only felt wishy washing on 2 or 3 of the questions. The afternoon was a bit longer and had a couple of questions that I had to stab at for a while...
Well its all over but the crying now! Still less than 24 hours after completion but need to shout out to the community for the repository of knowledge that the boards offer. Thanks to everyone who contributes to the success of us as hopeful PEs!