Curious what chances you guys think of the Oct 2020 exam being canceled?

[Sparky Bill PE]

Once I seen the exams have been broken up into 2 days (I assume for half capacity to help social distancing) i really thought there was pretty much a 0% chance of them canceling. Now that numbers are spiking (and still have 3 months to keep spiking) it has me curious if they will play with the idea of canceling. It has to be attractive to them to think "Well I mean if we just cancel one more time we will go straight to CBT and never have to worry about this again".  

Just looked and seen the previous test was canceled around March 13th. Dang I forgot they waited so long, and announced right before the test to cancel. 

Obviously I'm living my life planning on them not canceling and studying 7 days a week. 

 

[Dothracki PE]

@SparkyBill chances are growing each day with the increasing number of cases reported in the Southern States. I can't imagine NCEES is going to hold the exams in some states but not others. The NCEES website has the exam specifications and reference guide for the power exam posted so theoretically they might just cancel the October exam. Maybe even push up the CBT testing date in order to lower the amount of people testing in a day. I wonder how many will be scheduled for October because you have all of the candidates from April who were forced to defer to October on top of the candidates who planned on taking it in October like I am/was.

 

[Sparky Bill PE]

Oh my god just downloaded the new reference book. I been like a kid waiting on Christmas morning to get my 1,400 page electrical engineering reference book PACKED full of information........................................

ITS 81 PAGES LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

 

[Dothracki PE]

Yup, doesn't compare to my binder that is 583 pages front and back that is still growing

 

[akyip]

Oh man, I'm starting to get a bit worried seeing this topic haha. At least I've been using the stay-at-home time to really prep up more for the exam. I also used about 2 months worth of Zach Stone's online premium review course.

Also a question regarding PE exam registration on the NCEES website. Is your NCEES status information by any chance still being shown as "Pending Board Approval"? Mine still is unfortunately, even though I was previously approved for the April 2020 Exam before CoViD took that off the table...

 

[akyip]

Also, I'm not seeing the reference book for the PE electrical CBT exam... Can someone please share a link so I can find this not-so-big reference book? If so, thank you very much!

 

[Dothracki PE]

On your NCEES dashboard you should see "View Reference Handbooks" under Useful Documents in the Common Tasks. It is forbidden to share directly with others online. 

My status has been shown as pending board approval since I registered nearly a month ago. NCEES told me it is up to the state board to update that in your account. My state board says they will update the accounts periodically, no idea how long that means it will take to get to mine.

 

[akyip]

Okay, thanks!

 

[Sparky Bill PE]

Oh man, I'm starting to get a bit worried seeing this topic haha. At least I've been using the stay-at-home time to really prep up more for the exam. I also used about 2 months worth of Zach Stone's online premium review course.

Also a question regarding PE exam registration on the NCEES website. Is your NCEES status information by any chance still being shown as "Pending Board Approval"? Mine still is unfortunately, even though I was previously approved for the April 2020 Exam before CoViD took that off the table...

No. Mine just says "Approved"

 

[Sparky Bill PE]

.

 

[Zach Stone P.E.]

To be honest, I don't think it is going to be cancelled. The typical exam room is pretty well spaced out so there should be enough room for social distancing. With airlines still flying and kids going back to school in some states I think chances are pretty good that there will be a paper and pencil October 2020 PE exam .

But only time will tell of course. Best case senario, prepare for it and get it out of the way before the new CBT format (a lot of unknowns still). Best-worst case scenario, the October exam is cancelled and you'll be ready to hit a home run in January.  

Worst-worst case scenario, you put off studying and end up not ready for the new CBT format and feel more demotivated to start studying again.

Think of it like the stock market, the less time spent speculating and the more time in - the bigger your advantage.

 

[Zach Stone P.E.]

Oh man, I'm starting to get a bit worried seeing this topic haha. At least I've been using the stay-at-home time to really prep up more for the exam. I also used about 2 months worth of Zach Stone's online premium review course.

Also a question regarding PE exam registration on the NCEES website. Is your NCEES status information by any chance still being shown as "Pending Board Approval"? Mine still is unfortunately, even though I was previously approved for the April 2020 Exam before CoViD took that off the table...

Are you currently enrolled? Live class starts August 4th

 

[akyip]

Are you currently enrolled? Live class starts August 4th

Zach - Yes, since beginning of last month (June). Honestly, I was going to stop my subscription by end of this month because I don't want to go over 2 months.

I will say this - I feel much better after going through your premium review courses and quizzes. In particular, I love how efficient your methods of dealing with parallel transformers' power flow and making autotransformers out of 1-phase standard transformers work. They are easier, efficient, and understandable methods compared to other methods from other books.

I'm currently going through your videos of past courses/webinars to see if there's anything else I should know or consider.

 

[Zach Stone P.E.]

Zach - Yes, since beginning of last month (June). Honestly, I was going to stop my subscription by end of this month because I don't want to go over 2 months.

I will say this - I feel much better after going through your premium review courses and quizzes. In particular, I love how efficient your methods of dealing with parallel transformers' power flow and making autotransformers out of 1-phase standard transformers work. They are easier, efficient, and understandable methods compared to other methods from other books.

I'm currently going through your videos of past courses/webinars to see if there's anything else I should know or consider.

Glad to hear you enjoyed it the transformer power flow and auto-transformer explanations. 

The older webinars that are included as bonus material are very dated. Don't forget you can sign up for one month at the very end of the semester and have access to all of the live class recordings from this semester, as well as attend the last ones live. It will be the best bang for your buck if you are looking to budget. 

Also, don't forget to download the 200 page 80 questions practice exam and technical study guide PDF before your subscription runs out.