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Could be as simple as just retaking the test well rested.  I went into vertical last fall with high confidence but failed hard.  I then passed it quite easily with only a week of studying (the rest of the time was devoted to lateral) in the spring.

Great attitude.

I took EET, now AEI, and it was great.  The lectures had a very active back and forth with a lot of example problems.  Outside of the lectures, there were an ENORMOUS amount of homework, quiz, and test problems.  Remember, the only way to pass the exam is to PRACTICE!  Finally, Dr. Ibrahim wore...

Illinois no longer gives you continuing education credit for your PE if the continuing education is structural in nature.  Since all the continuing education events I go to are structural in nature, I'm looking to move my PE license out of Illinois, maybe into Georgia.  Anyone have experience...

Big day today.  Good luck to all of the future SEs out there!

The required tensile strength is the lesser of the following: a)  RyFyAg (assuming LRFD) b)  The maximum load effect, indicated by analysis, that can be transferred to the brace by the system. See F2.3 for what constitutes an "analysis."  The key word there is "amplified."  The 100 kips...

You can look in the solutions and see the exact citations in the seismic manual for arriving at the solution.  I will try to explain where that comes from in the broader picture of earthquake engineering. There are 100 kips applied to that system.  If using the ELF procedure, you arrive at that...

Let me share with you something @TehMightyEngineer shared with me a couple years back when I took the PPI course, just before he stopped teaching the course to build a aeroplane.  Just because you fail doesn't mean all the studying goes down the drain.  You are probably 95% of the way there, now...

Alright.  I'm done.  This is no way to live my life.  I'll check website again in a month.  Results are generally released to the licensing boards 14-16 weeks after the exam.

Typically we get results 6 weeks after the exam, but NCEES has instructed Ashlei to tell us we've actually gotten results typically 8-10 weeks after exam. With that said, do we usually get results 2 weeks after exam or is that just Ashlei trying to manage our expectations?  I was...

The one with the least bureaucracy.  Illinois will be last btw, sorry to break it to you.

Well I nailed that question, which I thought was fair.  If they are going to let people slide on that problem, I hope they cut me some slack on the lat pm foundation problem.

I think they mean that they waited 10 weeks to grade the exam instead of the usual 6.

If I pass the exam When I pass the exam, I will probably make a lot of unnecessary high cost purchases.

CurrentSE. Nah, if you are going to start publishing, throw your whole name down like David Connor, SE.

For the load factors, I made sure the combo table and gamma table were on the same page.  In AASHTO, you would have to flip the page back and fourth.  No time for that!  The flash cards are for quickly becoming familiar with the 30 different load cases.  There are 4 just for live load alone! I...

Its usually been six weeks, right?

I also recommend making some flash cards on quizlet to quickly learn the load cases.  Same with all those adjustment factors in wood, or any new nomenclature for that matter.

I brought it i and did not use it once, however, i do recommend having a small notebook containing some of the useful appendices, such as D6 for calculating composite beam capacity, your load combos and load factors, factors of safety, and maximum moment-shears-reactions tables for simple spans...

How many more years, if ever, do you think it will be before they update these concrete tech notes for ACI 318-14?