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A few of my co-workers are anxiously waiting for their results. Anyone from Hawaii got theirs yet or know when to expect them? Thanks.

Hey guys, I haven't been on the forums for a while but decided I wanted to chime in.... I passed the October 2010 Civil PE Exam but only after failing the April 2010 Exam. Here's some advice which might help you guys, personally after taking the exam twice I would focus on my strengths instead...

Hi everyone, did anyone happen to get the new NCEES Individual Study Practice Problems yet? A few co-workers of mine were interested in purchasing them and I wanted to see how different they were in comparison to the previous editions. I know it couldn't hurt to get it but they wanted some...

Finally got my results today in Hawaii and passed the Civil PE Trans Depth on the second try. For those of you who didn't make it, trust me, I know how it feels. When I failed the first time, I was hoping it was all a bad dream, I couldn't sleep that night and the next day I went to beach to...

Finally it has come to 1/8/10. The board said they will be mailing our results on Friday. It's funny how your confidence goes almost to zero when the results to arrives. The day after the exam I felt almost guaranteed that I did enough to pass considering I missed the last exam by a 4...

Hey guys, Hawaii is probably one of the last states to send their results but I think my mind is playing tricks on me ;) When I left the exam in October 2010 I felt very confident in fact over joyed of how I performed. In my mind I couldn't have done better. I was comparing this "feeling"...

On October 29 after the exam, did you think you did well, poor, or just borderline pass/fail? And what was your result? This is my second time taking the exam and I remember the during the April 2010 Exam, I felt that I wasn't sure of over 20+ questions and if I passed or failed it would've...

Guys, let's use this thread to post your results from Hawaii. I believe the board meets on January 13th. I hope it's not going to take that long to get our results. But it will be mailed to us. Good luck to you all.

Does anyone know if the knew diagnostic reports tell you an average passing score nationally? Is it by discipline. If so, does anyone have an idea what the transportation depth might be? Just curious. Good luck to you all who didn't find your results yet and to those who didn't make it keep...

I hate to do this guys ;) But let's talk about the exam again hehe. I practically forgot about it for a few days but decided to put a post for those who took the Trans Depth Exam. How hard was it? For me, I felt it was much more straight forward in comparison to April 2011. I definitely...

I remember a previous posts similar to this one which I thought was pretty helpful. Here's my survey, feel free to add your own. This might be helpful for those taking the exam in April or in the future to get a feel for what resources they will be relying on during the exam: What Depth...

I will start this thread as I feel this is actually really important, maybe common sense ;) But something I needed to do which I didn't. Tips for Day before preparation: 1. Try not to do anything out of the ordinary 2. Double check to make sure you have all of your books, calculators...

Guys, check out the NCEES website. They posted new study material. They have separate books for each discipline, 40 morning questions and 40 afternoon questions. Wow, I wish I had these materials for the October Exam. Anyone taking the April Exam should highly consider buying all books to...

Thank you Engineering Board for all your help and for everyone's responses to my numerous questions. I missed the last exam by 4 points about and I was determined to do much better this time. Although I didn't get much sleep the night before the exam, the countless hours of working problems...

If finding injury rates, do you need to include fatal accidents as well? This is transportation depth question. Thanks.

We have one more week left before the big day. I will be on the boards frequently checking any posts and posting any questions as I'm taking the week off. But I just want to say thank you to all the contributors on this site. These forums make you feel like your taking a class together and...

Has anyone bought this guide before? Any reviews or feedback will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

To find the ultimate bearing capacity of a shallow footing, is it safe to use the bearing factors from the fe reference handbook for the general bearing factors. When I checked it with Terzaghi factors from Das Geo blue Book it differs. The main factor that changes is Nq. I don't know why...

This is just a random post but I wanted check up on the fellow members on how you guys are doing with less than a month before the exam. This is my second time taking it as I barely missed it the first time. I told myself I could either try and wing it for the Oct Exam or study my but off and...

When finding the Skin Friction Capacity of a pile if it is penetrating through multiple soil layers.....(for example, first layer being clay and second layer being sand) how do you find the effective vertical stress? The POW pile problems use specific methods to finding the Qs. However, when...