How's the prep coming along guys?! Frustrated? excited? nervous? I for one can't wait to get done with it now!
Exactly 2 weeks and a couple hours from now (if you're from California), we'd have conquered this demon 😂
To me this seems like one of those things where steel (prestressing strands in this case) is provided in areas where tension develops. In this overhung beam, tension occurs at the bottom in the simply supported portion and occurs at the top in the cantilevered portion. Accordingly the strand is...
@youngmotivatedengineer by weakness if you mean the areas that I scored lower than the average passing candidate, then there's construction loads and soil mechanics (barely below average) and structural mechanics surprisingly (I thought I got all of those right) was considerably below average...
@leggo PE, thank you for your input! I think for the PM, I made the (grave) mistake of focusing too much on design problems. The test had a lot of analysis and code questions, and I think that was my undoing. But I will take a call sooner than later.
Thank you! Just wanted to know whether EET is going to be worth it. I know that a lot of people (including you) said that it covered almost all the questions on the AM for the April 2018 cycle, but has it been that way for some time now (with the previous exam cycles also)? Or is it just the...
Hey Guys,
October 2018 will be my second attempt at the PE Civil Structural after having done well in the AM and royally screwing up the PM in the April 2018 cycle. I think I put in around 300-350 hours of self study (No review courses) spread out over 5.5 months and still came out...