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This is amazing to me.  You do wood design all day, you felt you nailed the section (no pun intended), and you got an IR.  And absolutely no recourse to even challenge the results if you felt it worthwhile to.  It's mind-boggling.  I swore I would be done now that my 5 year vertical expired. ...

You probably already think I'm crazy.  But just showing part of my frustration and confusion...is what it is I guess.  Gonna look into these classes and think about trying again. Last time I took this (2015) with less confidence: This test with more confidence:

Lol I'm still in denial.  But it's an accepting denial.  And I think I've gone through more than 5 stages!

Screw it.  Maybe I'll take the courses, re-pass Vertical, finally pass Lateral, and be a better structural engineer as a result.  If only there's enough time in the day.

Yes.  I actually thought I did WELL on 2 questions (acceptable), mediocre on 1 (A/IR), and outlined my steps on the 4th because I was running out of time (U/IR).  I THOUGHT I got a minimum of 26 or 27 questions (or had much confidence in them) before educated guesses on most and blind guesses on...

I just keep going back and forth with NCEES.  "How can you not have a verification of the afternoon?  It does me no good to have the AM verified if I can't have the PM verified." It could very well be exactly what you said where I am confident in my results but am missing little things.  So...

They got back to me and assured me my results are my own.  I still don't know what to think about that.  I guess I really am that delusional.  Honestly, I started this process 5 years ago with the thought I would hopefully either pass both or fail both and be done.  Passing one forced me to take...

Exactly, which is why my only hope is that I was incorrectly given someone else's test results, as unlikely as that may be.  I don't know if that ever happens, but for some reason I've convinced myself it did.  Delusional!

Thanks, JP! I emailed them because I couldn't shake it. I may do it as well but I feel it's more geared towards manually checking your own results and I was hoping the wires were just crossed since I did bad on both sessions and definitely didn't have that vibe during the test. 

I'm hoping that the score reported was inadvertently someone else's. To be clear, this is my worst showing by far per the results. 20/40 and IIUU. I walked out of that test confident on probably 26 questions of the AM. CONFIDENT. And the afternoon I thought I had 2 to 3 As and worst case 1 U...

I emailed them, but don't feel like spending $75 just to confirm I'm foolish.  This test has just given me severe impostor syndrome.

I'm legitimately very confused.  I must be incredibly delusional, because I thought I did well except for running out of time on the 4th question.  This (in my head) was a matter of U vs IR on the last problem.  And I'm looking at these results dumbfounded.  Like these couldn't be my results. ...

Well, that was interesting.  Got my results, and I got wrecked (to the point I was thinking NCEES even screwed up my results).  Lol each time I've though I've done so much better and I kept getting worse.  Oh well, no SE in my future I guess since my Vertical expired with this test.  I can live...

This wait is killin me.  C'mon, CT board!  Just let me know I failed already so I can be done with this.

Same here, TG. Congrats to all who have passed so far though! 

Does anyone else check NCEES religiously now?  I think I check every hour.  It's been too long since I last took it, so I forget whether the email comes out instantly when it's up.  Even if it's instant, I feel like I'll continue to check anyway.

It really depends on the work.  If your PhD helps you to do things that others can't in a company, then you should get paid more.  In my experience, I have found PhD graduates to get too into the weeds for the type of work we often do.  But if it happens more than once or twice, then that's my...

For those thinking they are underpaid, please take my unsolicited advice with a grain of salt, but I would highly recommend finding a way to make yourself indispensable and looking at different avenues for growing your personal business.  What I mean by that as it relates to the SE is what helps...

Once you request X amount for getting the license, then that's kind of it.  But if the license opens up new opportunities for you and your company, that's where the value is.  If you think you can leverage it into bringing in more work, then that's where the money lies.  I guess you could always...

I keep checking despite the fact that I know we'll get an email telling us to check it.