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That's determination my friend.  Keep it up.

I couldn't agree more on the cold formed steel.  474 pages of a manual just for one problem.  It's ridiculous.  As if we don't have enough to read on.

Not that I know of but I did see a practice problem on the PPI 16 hour practice exam.

Hang in there.  The material should only get easier with each time you review it.  The passing rate for lateral is brutal indeed.

It's probably too late now for advice but I hope you know the ASCE 7 very well because the morning portion has a lot of ASCE 7 questions.  That and AASHTO.

To everyone taking the exam next Friday / Saturday, good luck!  I'll be taking the vertical portion for the 2nd time.  This time around I won't do both days at once which was brutal IMO.  I tried working on my weak points such as AASHTO (David Conner book and SERM) so let's see.  At the end of...

I had a question about the material in the Structural Engineering Reference Manual 8th edition. I am referring to example 4.29 on page 4-42. The work shown for sway mechanism and combined mechanisms doesn’t match the formulas used to get them: sway Mp = P1 x h / 4 and for combined sway it’s Mp =...

Oh I see, I was confused about that. Thanks for the reply.

Hey guys, I am using the 8th edition of the SERM by Alan Williams and I had a question about something they mention on page 1-40 about development length in compression. So they give the actual ldc value which I understand but then they say that the actual development length ld is obtained by...

Thanks leggo :)

New York is out.  Failed both days.  Surprised on some of my results but can't say I deserved to pass.  I will say I found it ridiculously hard.

I have seen Iowa and North Carolina so far.

Congrats!  Still nothing for NY.  Today seemed like the day :)

Could be another week at the max.  Looking at past December releases it seems that they released the SE results several days after the PE results.  According to that standard they should come out today but then again these are only speculations.  They need the extra time probably for the...

That makes more sense lol. I don’t think it ever has been released same day.

That’s a good question. Can anyone weigh in on this? How long does it usually take after the PE results come out?

Oh you did vertical.  Lol, thought you were referring to lateral.  Vertical wasn't that bad in the morning but the lateral morning  :wacko:

That's great.  Wish I had a similar experience.  If you didn't bomb any of the afternoon questions then you should pass the Lateral.

No need to get all of the new codes.  Some of the changes aren't structural and therefore not worth getting like the new IBC and Wood codes.  The ACI 318-14 however is needed because everything got shifted around.  2013 Masonry code is required as well.

Good luck to you :)   The exam certainly is harder than the PE in my opinion that is for sure.