Does anyone think the construction AM portion was more difficult this time around than on previous exams? I have to ask because this being my 3rd time of taking it, my first two % correct in that topic was 63% and 75%....this time around I dropped all the way to 38%, that is half of what I have been normally getting. I have no doubt this is why I will be taking it again. It's very frustrating and confusing that this is the only area that tripped me up, everything else was great.
So has anyone else experienced that type of drop in construction AM scores?
this was my first attempt for PE civil with geotech depth. i already knew my failure from tx board site b4 but recently i got the official letter with diagnostic.
Knowledge areas percent correct
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Breadth-Construction 50
Breadth-Geotech 62 <----- killer
Breadth-Structural 50
Breadth-Transportation 75
Breadth-Water resources and env 38 <--------killer, i din trust enviro at all but still...
Subsurface exploration and sampling 67
Engg properties of soils and materials 60 <-------killer
Soil Mechanics Analysis 40 <-------killer
Earthquake Engineering 100
Earth Structures 0 <-------backstabber
Shallow Foundations 83
Earth Retaining Structures 67
Deep Foundations 75
Other topics 40 <------killer
By looking at the percentage of questions from the outlined sylabus it seems i had 45 or 46 questions correct out of a total of 80, and my scaled score was "60". So assuming that 56 might be the magic number of required correct answers i fell short drastically. i feel bad bcoz i missed points on easy topics which could have very easily got me those 10 extra correct answers. but again, i dont know mayb the required correct answers this time was 60/80. i pretty much predicted similar amount of correct answers and i thought some of my guessed answers would pull me up but guess not. But after seing the diagnostic i am again motivated to study and will try my best to nail it on the second time in october
