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Yeah, sometimes I’m struggling with my word choices. I just blame it on my poor ESL skills :)

I’ve noticed a lot of cats 🐈 in users’ icons, that must be a female user, I thought :) I’m all for a diversity, but the skill set should be put first. It is interesting that historically in my home country (where I was lucky to get 3 years of experience with engineers who had 40+ years of...

So, who has a final say in evaluation of your foreign degree, the board or NCEES?

Congratulations! Looks like that glass helped you to find very fine words 🤩

From NCEES news: December 1–3: PE Structural Scoring Workshop Virtual Sounds like we will definitely get SE results in the next week, but I really hope to get it on Friday!!!

What’s your prediction? One more week for se results, similarly to April 2021 cycle?

I’m curious if they still have to do “the internal stuff” in Florida. I believe the reason for the delay in Florida was the way exam takers had to register years ago, which required board approval first. Those had to have their results process manually by the board, which caused the delay. Now...

https://fbpe.org/licensure/licensure-process/ just follow the board’s directions. They are pretty responsive. I would think they may forgive you for not having 9 hrs of general education since you have higher degrees from US, but I don’t know. US BS definitely requires more general math and...

To me, just the type of structural questions asked on a PE exam makes me questioning the competency of every PE claiming to be a structural engineer. I had more trust in these letters before I prepared and passed this exam. Considering structural questions, it is way too easy. PE definitely...

I really hope SE licensure will be gradually recognized and promoted in most states within a next decade. I even thought some structural engineers may prefer SE exam over CBT PE Civil exam in the next couple of years just because they can bring their own references to an SE exam. However...

6 hr drive for my location vs 2 hr for the last exam. I really hope I won’t have to do this 6 hr drive :) I actually expected this. I tried to ask my board, and got no answer. There is no way they would keep offering SE at the same locations as before in states where they get about 10 exam...

I received it too. My coworker calmed me down by reminding that he also received it a year ago and still passed the PE exam :) . There is no way they finalized SE exam grading by this time to know who passed and who didn’t.

After completing AEI vertical, I still didn’t feel ready for AASHTO questions. So I got the book from David Connor, SE and solved extra 40 vertical bridge problems. There were a number of problems that were not covered in AEI class which made me use AASHTO manual a lot. After spending a whole...

The only outcome that I would be satisfied with is that NCEES organizes another exam for this group in the next week or so and pays them for their travel and hotel. These exams require months of commitment, thousands of dollars for prep courses, time off, traveling, hotel... They can't just tell...

I don't think the practice exam is supposed to be indicative of the material of the actual exam. Rather it is supposed to implement the process of solving the practice exam using the references we've got (codes and class binders). Some people spend all their time on the class binders and the...

I took Vertical SE in April 2021 after doing AEI vertical SE class. I can see how people can struggle with the morning session. It required a lot of practice to be able to solve all AM problems without a single guess on the real exam. I practiced all AEI problems and some PPI problems on the...

I used the binders to get familiar with the codes, not to eliminate the codes completely. Binders helped to understand certain sections of the codes without reading every page in them. They were like my guides during the studying that pointed at the right page. Probably wood and masonry can be...

Thanks for clarifying. I though it was the boards in each state who organized the test sites. I don’t see how they can enforce to use stylus pens. I’ve tried some of them and just couldn’t stand it. I think they’ll probably just get rid of PM portion in the current format and it will be more...

I wish SE would stay that way, but it will go away too. There are so few people taking SE in my region (in the last vertical exam there were 5 people), that no one will even remember that there is still some P&P exam out there. A lot of people in the engineering-construction-architectural field...

I've noticed it, too. For a long time, the face of Justin reminded me a typical overwhelmed PE in a private sector who is extremely busy with keeping up with all job schedules, probably working some overtime and weekends, and the only reason he remembers that it is Wednesday is because that...