I just learned I passed
I took the FE Civil exam last week on Monday. This was my first time taking the exam, but I did prepare well (about 3.5 months), as I've been out of school for about 5.5 years now and I have an international degree which is not ABET accredited, so I had not taken a few of the courses on the specifications.
As neworleans said, you have to distribute your time well between the two sections. My first section also had 50 questions with 60 questions on the second section, although this might change, but you will be told before the exam starts. I knew this from some research I had done, so I took about 1 hour and 55 minutes on the first section, leaving me with 3 hours and 25 minutes for the second.
It's something that's said over and over again, but I'll say one more time: learn how to use your calculator and know the reference handbook from top to bottom, this will save you lots of time on the exam, specially on the math and probability sections.
These were my study resources:
-FERM3: I studied only the topics that appear on the new Civil specifications (about half of the book)
-Civil Discipline Specific Review Manual (by Lindeburg): There are a few problems that you shouldn't waste your time doing, as they have taken these out of the new reference handbook (ex. T-Beams in the Structural Design section)
-Civil Engineering Preparation Workbook (by Mo Iqbal): Lots of practice problems, but lots of mistakes too. Overall it was very helpful if you know how to spot the mistakes.
-Practice exam for the General + Civil FE exam (by Indranil Goswami): Longer and harder than the actual test, but helpful.
None of these books include review material for the Civil Topics, only practice problems. So I had to research for the theory on my own through google, where I was able to find university lectures for the topics I didn't understand well. But seems like Lindeburg will be releasing a new review book with all the Civil topics included:
http://www.amazon.com/Civil-Review-Manual-Preparation-Fundamentals/dp/1591264391/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1392238074&sr=8-4&keywords=fe+civil+exam .... Wish this had been available when I started studying.
Allow some time (2 or 3 weeks) before the test to do practice exams. It was really helpful for time management, which is one of the keys to passing the exam. I bought a 30 day access to Civil Quiz Bank at feprep.com. The questions are a lot harder, the most I was able to score was 73% once, so don't worry too much about it. And I also bought the practice exam from NCEES, which is very similar to the actual exam in terms of difficulty, maybe a little easier.
Well, the above answers some questions I had while I was studying and were my keys to passing, hope it helps.