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[Road Guy]

54 write it down...

 

[eng_boushra]

I took the Electric and Electronic PE exam and I did not see much difference in the afternoon and the morning same weight- I gussed about 5 and made about 3 mistakes (know it after the exam was over) . Overall I think I did good , still by time passing by I feel less and less comfortable.....dnot know if this is normal or what ... Anyone took the Electronic exam can explain how they felt please ...thanks..

 

[NCSU_05_FX4]

I also thought the morning exam was very straightforward and easy. I went to lunch feeling super good and filled with joy........then came the afternoon HVAC test. It was brutal and very unforgiving. Anyone else take the HVAC afternoon exam?

I felt that way about the Machine Design module.

That's bizarre. I must be the only person that felt more comfortable in the afternoon (Machine Design) session than the morning. I think my nerves were rattled right off the bat but then I settled down once I got to the 5th or 6th problem. I felt pretty good overall once I left the the exam but with each passing day I am getting more doubtful. I guess it's a case of nerves...or just a case of not wanting to go through that again. That was brutal!

Yup, you must be the only one!

 

[dhw23]

I also thought the morning exam was very straightforward and easy. I went to lunch feeling super good and filled with joy........then came the afternoon HVAC test. It was brutal and very unforgiving. Anyone else take the HVAC afternoon exam?

I took the HVAC afternoon exam! I felt exactly the same way. The morning was pretty easy. I got done early and felt pretty good going into the afternoon. The afternoon exam was not good. I thought it was very different from the practice tests I took. (both NCEES study exams)

I hope my morning test makes up for the afternoon test.

I'm with you guys! Afternoon HVAC was brutal... especially after feeling so good about the AM part!!

After completing twenty problems on the HVAC test I looked at my watch and saw that I had 1.5 hours left. I knew I was in trouble at that point. After my first round of going through all the questions and focusing on the moderate difficulty problems first, I only completed 10 problems! Hopefully we get a generous cut score.....

 

[DarbCU]

I took the Electric and Electronic PE exam and I did not see much difference in the afternoon and the morning same weight- I gussed about 5 and made about 3 mistakes (know it after the exam was over) . Overall I think I did good , still by time passing by I feel less and less comfortable.....dnot know if this is normal or what ... Anyone took the Electronic exam can explain how they felt please ...thanks..

Yep, I took the EE exam and feel the same way. I felt great when the exam was over, but I am definetly feeling less and less confident every day. However, I thought I did better on the afternoon section than I did in the morning.

 

[schmidty99]

I took the Electric and Electronic PE exam and I did not see much difference in the afternoon and the morning same weight- I gussed about 5 and made about 3 mistakes (know it after the exam was over) . Overall I think I did good , still by time passing by I feel less and less comfortable.....dnot know if this is normal or what ... Anyone took the Electronic exam can explain how they felt please ...thanks..

I also took the Electrical/Electronics. I feel they were both about the same level of difficulty, but I felt much better about the PM than I did the AM. This is my second time, I think I did better than the first, but still not sure if I made it over the hump.

One thing that bothers me is that there were probably 5 questions each on the PM and AM that I had no clue how to solve. Nowhere in my study materials did I ever come across anything similiar. Does anyone have (or know of) any study materials that more closely emulate the actual exam questions, other than the NCEES sample exam of course? Also, someone mentioned the new NCEES sample exams. I wonder if there are new example questions, or if they just put a different cover on the same questions. I might have to call them....

 

[MSEE]

I took the Electrical and Electronics exam. I felt better in the afternoon than i felt in the morning. Based on the comments i have read so far of those who took this exam, i had no clue how to solve some problems. i never seen any similar question like those while preparing for the exam. i think i have missed an average of 30, so i guess, i won't pass based on what i have read. some seem to have done well based on the Electronics and electrical posted comments so far.

 

[Nik]

Mine was the other way, I felt good about afternoon, than the morning. Weird. However, I studied 3 books on one topic. And saw no questions on that topic.

I was pretty disappointed, I was ready to nail 100 questions if asked on this topic that I prepared so nicely.

Some of the curve-ball questions bothered me. I was aiming at 90-95% accuracy. I dont think I've hit that, I think I am between 80% - 90% . I feel so UPSET. That said, given I have not made any "silly" mistakes. Because in Multiple choice questions, you got no room for silly mistakes. Its a straight way out to failure !

I'll agree with electrical power as well. I finished morning in 2 1/2 hours, went back over every problem a couple times, was only not-so-confident about maybe 2-3 of them. Morning felt good.
Afternoon brought the suck though. There were probably 8-10 of them that gave me a case of the willies. I figure I'll get some of those, and lose some of those.

I feel like I passed, but I don't feel like I got the "A" that I was studying for. Heck, half the stuff I studied wasn't even on the exam.

Agreed, overall none of the stuff that I spent a lot of time studying was on the exam. I'm pretty certain that if I had only studied the week before the exam, I wouldve done just as well.

 

[schmidty99]

I took the Electrical and Electronics exam. I felt better in the afternoon than i felt in the morning. Based on the comments i have read so far of those who took this exam, i had no clue how to solve some problems. i never seen any similar question like those while preparing for the exam. i think i have missed an average of 30, so i guess, i won't pass based on what i have read. some seem to have done well based on the Electronics and electrical posted comments so far.

MSEE:

I guess we're in the same boat then with how we feel about the exam. Especially on the those problems we were never able to study for. Maybe the folks who've passed can elaborate of some of the study materials they've used. I primarily used the Camara book for studying. Along with some searching of subjects on the web.

I feel my pass/fail will depend on how well I guessed. Not a good feeling. I was able to eliminate some of the choices in some cases, but still not what I would have preferred.

 

[FusionWhite]

Apparently Im the only ChE who took that damn thing. I smoked the morning section. I finished about half an hour early and that was after I spent 20 minutes double checking the ones I was doubtful about.

The afternoon session made my soul hurt. I felt like the stupid kid in class who sits there struggling while everyone else gets the right answers. At least there wasnt a professor to call me out in front of everyone.

One thing I did notice at the end is that there was only one quantitative problem on the whole test that I didnt at least come up with one of the available multiple choices on. So Im hoping I was either getting the right, or falling into "trap answers", in which case Im screwed.

Overall Im feeling really pretty good about it. Im putting my chances of passing somewhere around..... 70%.

 

[navyasw02]

Apparently Im the only ChE who took that damn thing. I smoked the morning section. I finished about half an hour early and that was after I spent 20 minutes double checking the ones I was doubtful about.
The afternoon session made my soul hurt. I felt like the stupid kid in class who sits there struggling while everyone else gets the right answers. At least there wasnt a professor to call me out in front of everyone.

One thing I did notice at the end is that there was only one quantitative problem on the whole test that I didnt at least come up with one of the available multiple choices on. So Im hoping I was either getting the right, or falling into "trap answers", in which case Im screwed.

Overall Im feeling really pretty good about it. Im putting my chances of passing somewhere around..... 70%.

You sound like the lone ranger that I saw after my exam. He was the only guy in the whole place taking the controls exam.

 

[benbo]

I took the Electric and Electronic PE exam and I did not see much difference in the afternoon and the morning same weight- I gussed about 5 and made about 3 mistakes (know it after the exam was over) . Overall I think I did good , still by time passing by I feel less and less comfortable.....dnot know if this is normal or what ... Anyone took the Electronic exam can explain how they felt please ...thanks..

The current EE exam is different than a lot of the other PE exams in that there is no longer a breadth and depth session. Used to be you had a broad but relaticvely simple morning breadth session, with a more specialized but more difficult afternoon depth session.

So there is no longer a qualitative difference between the AM and PM. It is just a matter of random chance which section you will find easier, I guess it depends on what problems they ask in each and where your strengths are.

FWIW I took the old style test and thought it was lucky I did. You guys probably had a harder test, unless you are really a specialist. But the cut score shold be adjusted appropriately.

 

[afrey22]

I took the Civil with the Water Resources and Environmental Afternoon.

Everyone I have talked to said that the WRE afternoon looked like greek. I've been studying since March and to be honest, I am pretty confident. I thought the test was very reasonable (both the morning and the afternoon) and it was only the qualitative questions that gave me fits.

What surprised me the most is that I only had to use the CERM and a test masters binder that someone lent me. Everything else went unused. Even my engineering dictionary went unused.