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Ooof, I heard that the 2016 October lateral was just as rough as this years vertical, congrats for passing that on the first try while not feeling confident. I've been getting more feedback from the PPI review course takers and continue to get comments on problems where people felt they had the...

Folks, edit your posts. You're straying a bit close to NDA territory there. NCEES does check this forum.

I'm hearing a wide variety of comments back from people in the PPI review course. Some people felt this was easier than October, but based on the responses I'm going to guess it's about the same if not worse. The most common theme I'm hearing is everyone has mentioned how they saw problems with...

Good luck with this final week of studying.

StructuralVFL, since you're doing the OnDemand you don't have access to the PPI forums. Give me a shout out via PM if you have any questions. If I get the time I'll see if I can summarize some of the things we've brought up this current course.

Always check your errata, many problems have (hopefully) already been found and reported.

An interesting thought, perhaps you're right.

Agreed with the above. They use r_avg = 2.66 in to calculate h/r = 54.1. Then An = 40.7 in^2/ft x 4 ft = 162.8 in^2. The solution has An = 161 in^2 so slightly different but close enough. Then they calculate Pa per the MSJC. Everyone definitely needs a copy of TEK 14-01B in their exam notes.

Good info (though unfortunate how you came about it).

According to NCEES: "Your combined performance on both sections much demonstrate minimum competency." Not sure what they mean by "combined performance" but I suspect that they mean you have to pass both and thus a "failed" afternoon gets you a failed exam day. And, yes, this sucks that a single...

Thanks StructuralVFL! Hopefully the course is working out for you, last year was a pretty good run with lots of good info. I'm surprised it's the Spring course and not the October course, though. While I'm obviously knee-deep into this years PPI review course but if you have any questions about...

Ah geez, thanks everyone!

I did this as well kenny; took the SE in lieu of the PE for my state and then used the SE exam to get licensed in IL as an SE.

I brought a mechanical pocket watch and was told I couldn't keep in on the desk; kinda annoyed but thankfully the exam room had an easily visible clock.

AISC 341 is the specification in the back of the Seismic Design Manual; similar to how AISC 360 is the steel specification in the back of the Steel Design Manual. AISC 341 and AISC 360 are technically all you need to design to; however the manuals are required for the exam as NCEES expects you...

I don't believe so, but that might have changed since I took it.

Apparently my earlier reply didn't post. When I mentioned the highest scores on the morning in my original post I sorted the scores based on the morning scores and posted both the morning and afternoon scores. For the highest scores on the afternoon I did the same thing but sorted by afternoon...

Where did I say it would be otherwise?

Note that a lot of AISI specifications are free now. https://cfsei.memberclicks.net/publications If you have it, I'd bring the AISI Cold-Formed Steel Design Manual. However, I'd only buy it for the exam if you really wanted it or absolutely couldn't afford to fail the exam.

Ah, that makes sense then. Good luck!