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Porter_'s Recipe for Exam Success: - study until ~6pm - cook a nice dinner (helps me unwind) - 2 glasses of red wine or beer - go to bed early - seduce wife (~90% success rate) - wake up at 5:30am and administer caffeine IV

Good find. As far as the PE exam goes Appendix C does not apply (per the syllabus).

I don't have ACI 318-11 either, but equations in CERM 13th ed. are based on 318-08. So I assume it's a typo. Thanks for the input MARIO650.

CERM 13th ed. Example 51.1 uses a shear strength reduction factor (phi) of 0.85. Everything I've read in the CERM and ACI 318 leads me to believe this should be 0.75. Is this a typo in the CERM or is there some special circumstance for one-way slab design that would make this 0.85?

ASCE (2010) Guidelines: 2-3 for light sleep 4-6 for deep, restful sleep 7-9 for "oh **** I slept through my alarm" 10+ for waking up at 9am in the Taco Bell parking lot

My first thought as well. Management has been making good decisions the last couple years so I suppose I'll just have faith that this will pan out as a good move.

Eh I'm good to go. When I passed the April 2014 PE exam I studied up until Thursday night at 6pm :)

I'm on a bender until Friday, shooting for 8-10 hours of studying per day. Not to worry....I'm stocked up on coffee and Scotch.

That's the plan for Thursday night

Thanks everyone! I'm studying right now to sit for for the civil PE exam next week. Needless to say not a lot of time has been devoted to studying.

Healthy baby boy born on October 5th! 6 lbs 14 oz, 19" long. He's awesome. Having a lot of fun with him.

i hope you win! :P

What a freaking exciting game. Both teams looked like champions.

Let's go HAWKS!

me too, good stuff

cheers

WR&E - DONE Transpo. - DONE Constr. - DONE Eng. Econ. - DONE Geotech. - DONE Struct./Codes - (4.5 wks) 9/19 - 10/21 Practice exam - 10/22 Brush up - 10/23 bahh. i haven't been able to study nearly as much as i would like to. the good news: i have a very solid understanding of the...

the Indexes are on the PPi2Pass website. i don't think you'll find (legally) the Appendix in PDF form. for example, here's the 14th edition Index: http://ppi2pass.com/Docs/bookInfo/CERM/CERMindex.pdf

NO SHAME