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I assume you're talking about the 4 ASHRAE Handbooks. You can buy them direct from ASHRAE here: http://www.ashrae.org/publications/page/158 They're expensive. I just borrowed them from a couple of my vendors to get the complete set of 4.

I wouldn't rank combustion as a primary topic that you'll get drilled with tons of questions on during the exam. Stick with power cycles, fluid flow problems, shear & moment diagrams, psychrometrics, etc., and you should pass just on those "meat and potato" type topics. There are are quite...

I don't remember how many problems were in SI units, but it wasn't many. Well under 5. I didn't study SI units at all. I figured if I got stuck, I could convert all the givens into I-P and solve the problem that way, then convert the answer back. I don't think I had to go through that...

Not likely. But I still took it to the exam in April. Didn't crack it open once.

Ditto that.

I don't think Trane makes high and "tow" temp charts. They're in the air conditioning business, not refrigeration or process stuff.

Another Shag user here. I agree to tab while working problems at first. After I had worked all the problems at least once, I went back and filled in the ones I wanted to refer to quickly. It seemed like most of them were the various power cycles.

Gotcha. Personally, I wouldn't want to spend the time to input those formulas. Especially Bernoulli's, just because there's so many variables. I preferred to write out the entire Bernoulli extended equation, strike through all the 0 items, then figure out the heads for each term remaining...

I found the Six Minute Solutions to be a great resource when studying. There's lots of different types of problems, and some of them give multiple ways to come up with the solution. I recall one of the Thermo/fluids problems having 5 different solutions. As far as how close they are to the...

What kind of "good programs" do you think you'll need? I used the HP-35s when taking the exam in April, and just used it as a basic calculator. The only reason I chose the HP-35 is because I like RPN, and the keys on the HP-33 weren't in straight lines. Thus, the only one on the list that I...

I'd work all 3 Six Minute Solutions next. Both morning and afternoon sessions of all 3. Then, do all 3 morning sessions again and the HVAC depth section again. Concentrate on tabbing your MERM with useful equations while working these problems. The second time you go through, you should be...

I brought my college thermo text (moran & shapiro) more as a crutch than anything else. I think MERM does an adequate job in explaining the various concepts in thermo and power cycles. But, I brought my college text just in case one of the "off the wall" questions was a thermo question...

Or borrow them from a vendor like I did.

That being said, I STILL brought my own 11x17 psych charts. I assumed they would only have the ASHRAE one in the booklet (which was correct), and there are quite a few problems that are easier on one of the other psych charts, especially if you can't write on them. During the exam, I don't...

My take on the actual exam versus NCEES sample exams is that the questions that ask about fundamentals are similar to the actual test. The "off the wall" ones will be replaced by similar "off the wall" ones that there's very little preparation you can do for it. Your best ally for those is...

I only had 2008 and 2001. Back in 1995, the test was hand-written problems instead of multiple choice, so I'm not sure how much that sample exam (or any before it) will help you.

I agree, just know it's there in case something like that comes up on the exam. -Agg97

I skipped it, along with most of the chapters under Plant Engineering. I think I reviewed my electric circuits and that was about it.

I went to Office Depot and found a 11x17 cardboard folder in the clearance bin, so that's what I used. I actually brought 3 psych charts: the ASHRAE one, the Trane one, and a 3rd one that had corrections for various altitudes. The ASHRAE one is the one they give you in the exam booklet. The...

Yes, it is. The MERM is a great reference book, but not so great at teaching you the stuff. When I first started studying, I found it frustrating to not know the answers without looking at the solutions. That's when I switched strategies and pretty much used problems from Six Minute Solutions...