Like you said, there are only "principles" and "applications" sections. There is no "breadth" or "depth" sections specified anywhere. Strength of materials is in "Principles" and design of machine elements is in "applications", so I don't understand your question.
Yes, I think you misunderstood my question. I am talking about the actual test. The Breadth section in the morning and the depth section in the afternoon. The NCEES list of topics tells you what the topics for principles are and what the topics for applications are, but doesn’t necessarily tell you which topics are covered in the morning or in the afternoon section. Is my question more clear now? Now, there are topics that obviously are in the depth section like machine design stuff and materials and I know about those but what about the rest. I may be totally confused, Is the test separated by principles and applications in the morning and afternoon just like the list? Couldn’t the morning or afternoon section be a mix of principles and applications?
You can most definitely bring in practice problems with solutions as long as they are bound. I had no problems with that in California, also make sure your board is ok with hand-written notes, if not, just photo-copy them and put them in a binder (they're worried about hand written notes in pencil because they can't tell if a person could be copying exam material on to them).
Awesome. I am in California and I have lots of hand written notes and cheat sheets, I was planning to put them in a 3 hole binder as suggested in the guidelines. Is this fine in CA based on your experience? Or I have to photocopy them?
I did the same thing you did, put all my hand-written notes in a binder and had no problems when I brought them to the exam room.
Kennedy book is a slimmed down book for PE exam review. It has the minimum necessity to cover the test material. I was able to read through the book and have a passing score on the NCEES practice exam. This would be something you would read if you only have a month to prepare for the test.
I took Dr. Tom's MDM 20 week course. I thought it did a great job of preparing me, and I passed. But I don't have a frame of reference to compare it to any other course or method of preparing. I definitely felt prepared and I felt confident that I passed after finishing the exam. Although I don't think the "Dr. Tom Method" worked exactly as advertised (but that might be a separate conversation).
