Long time lurker first time poster.
I came from failing the pre covid exam to taking the computer based exam today on December 1, 2020 for Electrical Power PE.
Here were my thoughts coming out.
The test hardness on a scale from 1 - 10 was a 6 to 7.
They through some curve balls in there where I had no clue what they were asking me and the word choice was iffy but that is usual. But, they had some questions that you could answer in 10 secs.
The computer was actually pretty nice. You get to flag your questions and even skip questions. At the end you get a "review" page where it shows you your incomplete questions and the ones you flagged. By clicking on the problem number it takes you to that question and you can answer accordingly. I like this way better than pen and paper because at one point i had skipped a bubble in on accident and was filling in wrong answers to the wrong question number.
Of course not every question is on the formula sheet, but we all knew that. With that said I did reference it about 30% of the time and if I had no clue what I was doing would say you could reference it at about 60%.
The only gripe I would have is that the PDF's that they give you would take a full 1-2 seconds to load while scrolling. My advice, as an example, when going to NEC T430.258 tables and such go to section 440 and go backwards else you will not see where you are at and have to stop to wait for the pages to load.
You can search the PDF's which helped a TON.
Here is how I studied: (Not posting this for haha look what I've done. Just hoping someone sees this and maybe get some perspective just in case this is the first post they see on taking the PE)
I put in 4 to 5 hours 3 to 4 days in the week and about 10 hours over the weekend all of covid since last exam. I did take a breather of about 1 week in between as I was burning my self out. I worked the ncees exam 4 times spaced out and all spin up and complex imaginary tests that I had in my books.
I came from failing the pre covid exam to taking the computer based exam today on December 1, 2020 for Electrical Power PE.
Here were my thoughts coming out.
The test hardness on a scale from 1 - 10 was a 6 to 7.
They through some curve balls in there where I had no clue what they were asking me and the word choice was iffy but that is usual. But, they had some questions that you could answer in 10 secs.
The computer was actually pretty nice. You get to flag your questions and even skip questions. At the end you get a "review" page where it shows you your incomplete questions and the ones you flagged. By clicking on the problem number it takes you to that question and you can answer accordingly. I like this way better than pen and paper because at one point i had skipped a bubble in on accident and was filling in wrong answers to the wrong question number.
Of course not every question is on the formula sheet, but we all knew that. With that said I did reference it about 30% of the time and if I had no clue what I was doing would say you could reference it at about 60%.
The only gripe I would have is that the PDF's that they give you would take a full 1-2 seconds to load while scrolling. My advice, as an example, when going to NEC T430.258 tables and such go to section 440 and go backwards else you will not see where you are at and have to stop to wait for the pages to load.
You can search the PDF's which helped a TON.
Here is how I studied: (Not posting this for haha look what I've done. Just hoping someone sees this and maybe get some perspective just in case this is the first post they see on taking the PE)
I put in 4 to 5 hours 3 to 4 days in the week and about 10 hours over the weekend all of covid since last exam. I did take a breather of about 1 week in between as I was burning my self out. I worked the ncees exam 4 times spaced out and all spin up and complex imaginary tests that I had in my books.
