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Anyone else hear about the NCEES warehouse fire that burned up all the scan-trons and invalidated the last test?

What part of the code are you following here?  

This in particular tells me you may not be familiar with Motors. So... an overload IS NOT a breaker or fuse (normally).  Its an entirely different class of device, completely separate from the breaker that acts as a short circuit protection device in this case.    In the rest of the code, the...

So first things first.   Motor Short Circuit MUST BE sized based on NEC FLA tables in 430.Motor Overload MUST be sized off Motor Nameplate.  Not the FLA given in 430  tables. This is dictated by NEC 430.6(1) and (2).  You can get into circumstances where Short Circuit and Overload do not match...

Clearly the test needs to be harder based on a few individuals I've had the honor of coming across in my career! :poop2:

But if your XOR ASCII checksum of the email date and time results in a prime number, you can file a TPS Report with NCEES and protest your failing score.   My Sister's ex boyfriend's boss passed that way.  

You may just need to find friends who are better at passing tests.  :dunno:   

Your name is not Baconator.  You do not pass go.  You drift slowly into the dark realms of ambiguity, this post forgotten and discarded like a politician's pre-election promise, never to be uttered again in light of day.

Which is what I did.  I got work to split the cost 50/50 mostly.   All said and done, the specific resources indicated by some of the others are generally your safest bet... all things considered.  Your abuse may vary based on the test given though.    

Morning Session I did not struggle.  Afternoon Session I would have liked another 30 minutes.   Questions were typical of the NCEES exam. Generally.  But there were a few questions that if you told me I could call anybody during the test to ask them for the answer, I wouldn't even know who to...

I have not looked at the question in depth, but looking at that particular line equation it is because the PU impedance values are presumably the same for Negative and Positive Sequence circuits.  So the (Postie Sequence Gen + Positive Sequence Trans ) x 2  =  (Pos + Neg) + (Pos + Neg)

You are normally given a lunch break which you are allowed to leave and come back.  However I would not risk not having a resource available because you do not know the order of the test exam questions.  Once you are in, you are in for the 4 hour segment.  You are only allowed to leave for a...

The answer of "why" goes to how Power is defined. Remember your power triangle.  Inductive Loads are Positive Angles and Apparent Power is defined as Positive on the Power Triangle.  Capactive Loads are negative angles and Apparent Power is defined as Negative on the Power Triangle. ...

I did not find them critical but if you have time, do them.  They reinforce concepts but don't hold yourself up on them.  Its an 80 problem test and there are only so many questions associated with each topic.       Ultimately make sure you get the actual sample test problems first.

Wildi wasn't making a academic book or even a test reference.  The man was arguably genius level and  wanted to impart everything he learned in the course of his career in a way that technicians could understand and use to advance themselves in a strait forward way.  That is why its so light on...

Or if they are full of ####, or have 40 years in the industry.  :) Too many variables, so just worry about what you can control!

I would not recommend the book problems found in the technical books like Power System Analysis.  They are great for academic study, but very poor test problems.  (At least I thought so) 

Don't worry.  Once you pass you will forget almost all of it and wonder why you wasted your time studying so much unrelated garbage to the job you currently have, and the job after that, and quite possibly the job after that. But when you open up your own Company in 30 years because your tired...

The CI answer is incorrect.  Under normal design considerations without a specific circumstance or exemption listed that would prevent the next largest OCPD from being used as indicated in 240.4(B)... 200A is the correct answer.  It is the largest OCPD that can be used with the information...