The FE and FS exams are switching to CBT in April 2014. The October 2013 exam will be the last FE/FS using pencil-and-paper format. According to the NCEES website, registration for the October 2013 exams open June 17th 2013. Registration for the April 2014 ,CBT format exam, opens November 4, 2013. Scheduling an appointment with Pearson VUE testing may be done as soon as January 2, 2014.
The PE and PS exams will remain in the current format for 2014. We just wanted to share information with Future FE/FS Engineers, who are planning to take the Exams.
I don't think you're correct. Can you provide a link where you read that? What I read on the ncees website is that CBT for FE/FS starts January 2014. Period. There is no April 2014
CBT format exam. The FE/FS are available in two month windows. The April and October dates are still in play for the paper exams.
I believe School of PE is indeed correct. Apposite information can be found at the following link:
http://cbt.ncees.org/notice-of-initiation-of-computer-based-testing/
For further information regarding discipline-specific FE exam CBT testing beginning in 2014, please visit the link provided:
http://cbt.ncees.org/major-domains-for-the-fe-exams-beginning-in-2014/
If you don't mind my sharing, I find the following changes most noteworthy:
- Individuals will now be afforded the opportunity to take the FE exam up to three times within any given twelve-month period.
- The FE exam will be administered four times a year beginning in 2014 during the following periods (by month): January to February; April to May; July to August; October to November. Ergo, no tests will be administered in March, June, September, or December.
- The exam will now be 6 hours long and will contain 110-multiple choice questions.
- Each discipline-specific exam will offer a pool of questions relevant to the discipline of the exam chosen. E.g., those who opt to take the Civil-discipline exam will not have to prepare for Chemistry, Thermodynamics, Electricity and Magnetism, or Heat Transfer sections, as with the previous paper-based exams.
- The reference material will be electronic as opposed to the former tangible reference manual supplied, and will be offered on the NCEES website (I hope that a search function will be incorporated into the electronic reference manual as it would unequivocally facilitate its use).
- An automatic registration option will now be offered to applicants in addition to the traditional manual option.
- An examinees results will be provided within 48 hours after the completion of the test by logging into the examinee's online NCEES account.
- Upon passing the exam, the examinee will apply for intern certification with any given board, and the board will subsequently verify the exam results to approve the examinee for certification.
I sincerely hope anyone that reads my post will find this information useful.
- K