Recent content by JRB

I am registered for Testmasters currently, never had a prep class before. I study for at least a couple months prior to testing.

It does seem like the test questions get even harder with each attempt.

Just got my results back from my 5th attempt and did worse than any time before. I'm really starting to dislike this exam. :ROFLMAO:

I am not familiar with that book and I meant to pick up a copy after the last exam. However, if I find out next week that I failed, I'm buying a copy and reading it cover to cover. This was my 4th attempt and I'm hoping that my results will mirror yours; I feel horrible but maybe I passed and...

I read about your recent test attempt and the accompanying disaster. Terribly sorry to hear of your misfortune! I am hoping for the best but expecting the worst.

I took the PE CBT again yesterday. This one was much, much harder than the first CBT I took in April. Last time I tested, I got done over an hour early in the afternoon session. This time, I finished the exam with about ten minutes to spare. There were at least 10 questions on the exam that...

I sent the initial application back around the beginning of March. I mailed my SERs and references the second or third week of April. The background check was the first week or May. In contrast, my former coworker had to apply to take the test a fourth time and from the time he applied to the...

Well, I got an email from TBPELS on Friday. They approved my work experience and have allowed me to retest another 3 times. Yay, another $375..........

I’m in the same boat. Took it three times and failed. You can apply for your PE license with TBPELS and in doing so, request permission to test. If they allow you to retest, then you are granted 3 more attempts.

I work in Texas and I know a construction scheduler/superintendent who was allowed to sit for the PE exam. No engineering degree and all his experience was construction related. They required him to take the EIT and have 8 years of experience in his SER, but he passed the exam and he is a PE.

He already passed in Texas. He had to request permission from the Texas board of engineers before he was allowed to test the fourth time.

A coworker passed on his fourth attempt, he had to apply for his PE in order to be allowed to test the fourth time.

Well, despite feeling pretty good about the exam, I failed again. The diagnostic is probably the most meaningless thing I've ever seen. You don't even know how many questions you answered incorrectly in a given category. That was the third one, so now I have to request permission to retest.

The search tool is very useful, almost necessary. I used it constantly in the exam. I had reviewed the codes very little before the exam, thus if you take the time to read up in advance, it may not be as crucial. The code book layout was the guide/textbook taken directly from exact industry sources.

Thank you! It was a difficult enough exam that by the time I left the building, I was so brain fried that I couldn't tell you exact questions or details from the exam even if I wanted to. 🙂 As to the codes: LOTS of focus on ASCE 37. There were even a couple of questions that referenced ASCE37...