Thanks for sharing that with us, seroge01, but would you mind using this thread to post your diagnostic report score? Thanks!If it helps out the community because this board has certainly helped me in the past weeks...
ME, thermal & fluid systems - I correctly answered 47 and failed.
I think you need at least 48/80 to passed for the mechanical PE. You almost got it ..try hard you will make it.If it helps out the community because this board has certainly helped me in the past weeks...
ME, thermal & fluid systems - I correctly answered 47 and failed.
Keep your head up. Being an engineer in itself is a great accomplishment.Wow, I was not expecting that. I was so confident that I passed that test, I actually walked out thinking it was pretty EASY to what I was expecting. Obviously I have a lot of work to do. I feel so embarassed right now as I was in public with tons of friends when I heard results were released and I checked it on a friends phone. I never would've done that thinking I would get the result I did.
It's a tough pill to swallow, but I'll sulk for now and look to keep my head up and get after it again after the New Year. What a damper on vacation tho... all I want to do is go home and open up my Power Systems book again. To anyone else feeling my pain, keep your head up and stay strong. Take some time to breathe and get after it again for April.
To all others, congrats on your achievement!
-Charlie
I'm not trying to rub it in or anything but this thought has crossed my mind several times the last couple of weeks waiting for the exam. I've been wondering #1 how many hours does someone that failed put into studying and #2 how many references does someone that fail bring to the exam. I have it roughly figured out that I put in somewhere near 200-300 hours of studying for the PE and I only took 3 or 4 books for references. I really don't see how anyone with a suitcase full of books can really have the time to find the book they're looking for and then find the information in the book and then answer the question all within 6 minutes. I wonder what the correlation is between passing rate and number of references brought to the exam.
To all those that did fail, put in the hard work again. Anything is achievable if you're willing to work for it.
I thought about doing water resources, but caved at the last minute to transportation. I think that helped tremendously because I guarantee I would have failed if I had taken the water resources - even though that's my day job. Maybe consider other sections over the next two weeks and see if there's an afternoon module that you might try. I had a friend who failed three times, but took something like construction when he passed. I felt like they put a ton of soils/geotechnical questions on the exam - probably more than in the water resources afternoon - those screw me up.I think you got 39/80. I think you should get the new % dia that you can check out the avg people score.I failed ... and didnt feel very confident coming out of the exam, so I am not too surprised. Didn't think I'd do as badly as I did though. Don't have tme to line things up properly .... but the #s at the bottom correspond to the sections listed.
Knowledge Area
1 Construction
2 Geotechnical
3 Structural
4 Transportation
5 Water Resources & Environmental
6 Hydraulics -- Closed Conduit
7 Hydraulics -- Open Channel
8 Hydrology
9 Groundwater and Well Fields
10 Wastewater Treatment
11 Water Quality
12 Water Treatment
13 Engineering Economics
Number of Items
8 8 8 8 8 6 6 6 3 6 6 6 1
Your Performance (No. Correct)
Your Performance (% Correct)
62 50 50 62 62 66 33 50 33 33 33 16 100
You got it ... 39/80 ... civil - water resources and environmental ... PE, Florida.
Am I the only one who got scores and am wiliing to share?
I thought about doing water resources, but caved at the last minute to transportation. I think that helped tremendously because I guarantee I would have failed if I had taken the water resources - even though that's my day job. Maybe consider other sections over the next two weeks and see if there's an afternoon module that you might try. I had a friend who failed three times, but took something like construction when he passed. I felt like they put a ton of soils/geotechnical questions on the exam - probably more than in the water resources afternoon - those screw me up.I think you got 39/80. I think you should get the new % dia that you can check out the avg people score.I failed ... and didnt feel very confident coming out of the exam, so I am not too surprised. Didn't think I'd do as badly as I did though. Don't have tme to line things up properly .... but the #s at the bottom correspond to the sections listed.
Knowledge Area
1 Construction
2 Geotechnical
3 Structural
4 Transportation
5 Water Resources & Environmental
6 Hydraulics -- Closed Conduit
7 Hydraulics -- Open Channel
8 Hydrology
9 Groundwater and Well Fields
10 Wastewater Treatment
11 Water Quality
12 Water Treatment
13 Engineering Economics
Number of Items
8 8 8 8 8 6 6 6 3 6 6 6 1
Your Performance (No. Correct)
Your Performance (% Correct)
62 50 50 62 62 66 33 50 33 33 33 16 100
You got it ... 39/80 ... civil - water resources and environmental ... PE, Florida.
Am I the only one who got scores and am wiliing to share?
I actually passed! I felt like Transportation was primarily about knowing curves and being able to do them without thinking, and then being able to look stuff up. There was a lot of looking stuff up. I wish I had photocopied the indices of my books.DBC, did pass/fail? If you didn't make it, sorry....April is coming soon and you'll be able to do it. I had the same mentality as you and chose transportation. This was my second time taking trans and I'm glad I stuck with it instead of re-learning a new depth. I felt this time was a little better than April, but we still didn't get our results in Hawaii yet. What areas did you struggle with if you don't mind me asking. Maybe I can help or others can to help improve those scores.
tim - took thermo as well and felt the same about the morning vs. the afternoon. also did the house thing and the too much work before the exam that limited my studying. had to take the week off before the exam just to get in some quality studying. no excuses, just is what it is. feel like i know what to do for the next time....frustrated yes, but know i need to devote more time to studying and not get caught up so much at work that i can get in some quality studying. curious on the final outcome and how close I got.I am in the group of FAIL's
ME - Thermo/Fluids-
Hitting the books again starting Monday - sucks - I am really bummed - feels like a kick in the shorts -
I spent about 150 hours studying, but was very busy at work, moved into a new home and my wife gave birth a week before the exam - not making execuses, just justify in my own head why I need to spend the next three months preparing.
I found myself well prepared for the AM section and really struggled with the PM section.
I am close, as some have posted there scores, so with any luck it will be next time.
Tim
I agree with the few that have already posted about there not really being a correlation. I took civil-structural and passed the first time in October. I brought 2 full suitcases of stuff. I am pretty sure I had more references than anyone in the exam. I studied with all of my refererences from school and all of the ones I have in front of me on a day to day basis at work. And I studied for 5 solid months and probably 200+ hours. I didn't use all of them b/c the exam focused more on some disciplines than others but there isn't any way I could have known that going into the exam.I'm not trying to rub it in or anything but this thought has crossed my mind several times the last couple of weeks waiting for the exam. I've been wondering #1 how many hours does someone that failed put into studying and #2 how many references does someone that fail bring to the exam. I have it roughly figured out that I put in somewhere near 200-300 hours of studying for the PE and I only took 3 or 4 books for references. I really don't see how anyone with a suitcase full of books can really have the time to find the book they're looking for and then find the information in the book and then answer the question all within 6 minutes. I wonder what the correlation is between passing rate and number of references brought to the exam.
To all those that did fail, put in the hard work again. Anything is achievable if you're willing to work for it.
I am going to start Monday and focusing next week on reworking the NCEES AM portion - this should kind of ease me back into it...whats your study plan? i was going to pull together a schedule for the next couple months...not sure what make most sense...hop around through MERM or just do problem after problem via various study guides.
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