uzairsyedahmed
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Considering how much I had relied and gone through people's experiences, I think I owe this forum and community my two cents. First off, no I did not go through testmasters or any other prep course. They are not a guarantee despite what you say and you still have to do the same amount of study that someone studying on their own. Plus, you end up saving 1000s and can follow your own pace.
Firstly, skip the maths. I regret the week of my life I lost doing the math section. Unless you have forgotten all basics in math I wouldnt do it. but if you still want to skim through all 13 chapters but do in in less than a day. I was an honor student in my undergrad and did it in Pakistan which believe me was ten times tougher than my doing a masters in the US. (thats another long story). So despite being confident on the concepts there was quite a few things that I didnt know or know that well which the MERM covered. So this was my plan. and this is how I did it.
Started in August. went through all the chapters 14-56. I did a chapter, took notes on it (take notes in pen! I wasted two days rubbing pencil marks and overwriting with pen!!) and then did the problems. I would like to emphasize that you need to work on a concept, not just problem solving. you wont see the same question but would see the same concept. if your stuck on a problem, its worthwhile to dig into it. google on it and make sure you get your concepts as right as you can. for instance, I was stuck on when to use Air gas tables and when to use prop relations. compressible fluid flow(chapter 26?) was giving me trouble so I did google it and spent an extra day on it. I didnt do any of the 1 hour questions EXCEPT the ones in my discipline. I initially intended to do SMS but couldnt, since i didnt have the time. First week of October I was nearly done with my plan. Dont stick to a "chapter a day" some chapters take 10 minutes. Others would take three days. I spend the next three days revising the ones i did first,. just giving it a quick look to refresh those concepts. The following saturday I took the Lindeburg sample, got a little demoralized and stopped timing it. I just did it for practice. I would recommend doing this since those questions are really tough but you can revise concepts. I think I maybe got like 45/80 if I had timed it. I spent the next week going over those questions and re arranging my tabs. next weekend I took NCEES 2010 and got a 68/80. felt pretty happy and all 12 were pretty much mistakes. I revised a bit, and then went about arranging my references. Took the last day and a half off to relax.
Books I used other than mentioned above: ASME Steam tables (they have plenty of gradations and saves you from interpolating). Unit Conversion book by lindeburg ( I would recommend this highly).
Let me know if I can be of any help! Thanks to all Oct 2013 takers who supported each other and othres who answered our questions. Thanks a bunch!
Firstly, skip the maths. I regret the week of my life I lost doing the math section. Unless you have forgotten all basics in math I wouldnt do it. but if you still want to skim through all 13 chapters but do in in less than a day. I was an honor student in my undergrad and did it in Pakistan which believe me was ten times tougher than my doing a masters in the US. (thats another long story). So despite being confident on the concepts there was quite a few things that I didnt know or know that well which the MERM covered. So this was my plan. and this is how I did it.
Started in August. went through all the chapters 14-56. I did a chapter, took notes on it (take notes in pen! I wasted two days rubbing pencil marks and overwriting with pen!!) and then did the problems. I would like to emphasize that you need to work on a concept, not just problem solving. you wont see the same question but would see the same concept. if your stuck on a problem, its worthwhile to dig into it. google on it and make sure you get your concepts as right as you can. for instance, I was stuck on when to use Air gas tables and when to use prop relations. compressible fluid flow(chapter 26?) was giving me trouble so I did google it and spent an extra day on it. I didnt do any of the 1 hour questions EXCEPT the ones in my discipline. I initially intended to do SMS but couldnt, since i didnt have the time. First week of October I was nearly done with my plan. Dont stick to a "chapter a day" some chapters take 10 minutes. Others would take three days. I spend the next three days revising the ones i did first,. just giving it a quick look to refresh those concepts. The following saturday I took the Lindeburg sample, got a little demoralized and stopped timing it. I just did it for practice. I would recommend doing this since those questions are really tough but you can revise concepts. I think I maybe got like 45/80 if I had timed it. I spent the next week going over those questions and re arranging my tabs. next weekend I took NCEES 2010 and got a 68/80. felt pretty happy and all 12 were pretty much mistakes. I revised a bit, and then went about arranging my references. Took the last day and a half off to relax.
Books I used other than mentioned above: ASME Steam tables (they have plenty of gradations and saves you from interpolating). Unit Conversion book by lindeburg ( I would recommend this highly).
Let me know if I can be of any help! Thanks to all Oct 2013 takers who supported each other and othres who answered our questions. Thanks a bunch!