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Those of us lucky enough to live in the great state of Kansas get to wait an extra few days since we only get notified by snail mail.  I guess it's an improvement over waiting for a telegraph to be delivered on horseback.

I think the general consensus is that the Civil AM was much more difficult than usual, so if you felt confident after finishing up the morning session, I'd say you have reason to feel optimistic.  Even if the worst should happen and you need to take it again in April you will have a much better...

It's smart to ask us how we felt about the test taking experience BEFORE we receive the results.

Make sure you buy each and every one of the NCEES standards if you'll be taking the Construction Depth exam.  The published year shouldn't be as important.  I brought older editions of ACI 318 and the Steel Manual to the most recent exam and didn't suffer for it.  At least 15% of the problems in...

I'm going to go with Kansas, since from what I've heard we don't find out online - we have to wait for the results by snail mail :violin:

I recommend going through the FE Civil Review Manual by Lindeburg. From my experience the level of difficulty on those problems is very much equivalent to those you will see on the AM session of the PE exam, even though it was written for the FE/EIT exam. When I went through the manual when I...

Yeah, I'm going to back away slowly from this one. Nothing to see here, folks!

It's funny you should say that, as I thought a couple of the more challenging questions in the morning were water questions. It's all about what you're the most comfortable with I guess! I thought the trickiest was a structural problem, though - you probably know the one I mean without me...

Which depth exam did you take? That's an awful lot of references!

Civil/Construction first attempt here. Like many, I felt the Civil morning had a few curve balls. The best strategy for me was to spend a few minutes at the beginning of each session and read the questions in their entirety and rank them 1) I've got this 2) I've probably got this but it will...

An important skill to be prepared to exercise for quantity take-off problems is the ability to read and interpret plans. It's more than likely that the problem will be presented in the form of a typical cross-section of a footing, wall, or road surface. They could ask you to compute the volume...

I see it done all the time. The concrete mixing truck will back up to the job site and spin out a tiny bit of concrete down its chute so the foreman and inspector can take a look at it. If the mix seems a bit dry it's acceptable to add water on the spot as long as it's thoroughly mixed before...

In a real reinforced concrete member you would never place a bar on each end. There is a region of concrete cover necessary on each side to protect the steel from corrosion.

Also, I find it amusing that the author chooses to compute the nominal weight of rebar rather than use the ASTM standards.

#32 is another winner. The author states that a wall is 100 feet long with steel spaced 12 in O.C. Somehow he claims 101 bars will fit in there. Apparently there are bars halfway embedded in the concrete at each end. Sadly enough I have seen similar mistakes in plans in the real world that...

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This problem came up for me as well. The 29 CFR 1926 has been updated to remove the table referenced in the solution of the problem! It looks like you used the same Mancomm book I'm studying with, which reflects the change detailed below: Source...