I have to say I didn't feel like it was experience based. Most was very academic. When I worked for a GC, I never once determined loads on formwork, nor did I ever find curve values for a road or design a concrete mix. These tasks are usually done by subconsultants. When calculating cut and fill, you use software and never take into account moisture content since it changes daily. Quantity take off is a common task, but it's really just geometry. Finding costs and productivity is usually done by a phone call to a specialty contractor. On the exam the data is just given to you. Scheduling requires experience for sequencing, but the calculations are done by the software. The exam however tests you only on the calculations since the sequencing is already done for you. Managing subcontractors, reading drawings and contracts were not really covered on the exam.
The reason I say the exam was experience based is because the GC I worked for had us do all of the above. We didn't subcontract this stuff. We had subcontractors, but doing the estimating and managing of their work was part of it. It was part of the engineer training course they made all us new-hires undergo. It just depends on what kind of construction experience you have. Apparenly yatkins worked for more of a managing contractor, where I worked in the field offices in a more hands on environment.
We had to do formwork loading, especially when trying to phase out pier and tall wall concrete pours. We would take field measurments for cuts and fills, because they would change as the construction continued (we had to be able to do it on the fly as a check for all of the daily production reports), and the only "software" we used was on our calculator. I agree on the moisture content part, but we did have to understand it had an influence on things like ready-mix concrete (wetter aggregates make for a wetter concrete), and because the soils in CO are so rich in clay, we had to account for shrink/swell (some soils had could swell by over 100% when wet, but those were typically hauled off as waste). Then because the engineers helped manage crews, we had to know our productivity, budget, and our costs. We even had to submit monthly crew cost reports to corporate.