Last minute morning studying

[TigerStephie]

It's probably too late for this but...

I took the exam and failed in October. I did not study as much as I would have liked, I may have totaled 20 hrs and I did well on everything in the morning except geotechnical and structural. Taking water resources so I found those to be easy on the morning. I have focused most of my time thus far studying for the afternoon.

Today I decided to go back and refresh myself with the morning information. Construction and transpo I quickly went through some practice problems and feel very confident with those.

What chapters should I be focusing on in CERM for structural and Geotechnical for the morning. Anything I should definately know or mark? I will likely save these for last anyway since it is my weakest subjects.

 

[crogmobulon]

It's probably too late for this but...
I took the exam and failed in October. I did not study as much as I would have liked, I may have totaled 20 hrs and I did well on everything in the morning except geotechnical and structural. Taking water resources so I found those to be easy on the morning. I have focused most of my time thus far studying for the afternoon.

Today I decided to go back and refresh myself with the morning information. Construction and transpo I quickly went through some practice problems and feel very confident with those.

What chapters should I be focusing on in CERM for structural and Geotechnical for the morning. Anything I should definately know or mark? I will likely save these for last anyway since it is my weakest subjects.

For geotech, soil classification (USCS & AASHTO) shouldn't be too hard to get down in a short period of time. It's pretty much like following a flow chart if you can find a resource you are comfortable with. Rock quality designation is pretty simple too. Given a core sample of a certain length, just add up the lengths of all pieces >= 4" long, divide that by the total length of the core and multiply by 100. % compaction and sand cone density problems are not bad either.

Good Luck.

 

[TigerStephie]

It's probably too late for this but...
I took the exam and failed in October. I did not study as much as I would have liked, I may have totaled 20 hrs and I did well on everything in the morning except geotechnical and structural. Taking water resources so I found those to be easy on the morning. I have focused most of my time thus far studying for the afternoon.

Today I decided to go back and refresh myself with the morning information. Construction and transpo I quickly went through some practice problems and feel very confident with those.

What chapters should I be focusing on in CERM for structural and Geotechnical for the morning. Anything I should definately know or mark? I will likely save these for last anyway since it is my weakest subjects.

For geotech, soil classification (USCS & AASHTO) shouldn't be too hard to get down in a short period of time. It's pretty much like following a flow chart if you can find a resource you are comfortable with. Rock quality designation is pretty simple too. Given a core sample of a certain length, just add up the lengths of all pieces >= 4" long, divide that by the total length of the core and multiply by 100. % compaction and sand cone density problems are not bad either.

Good Luck.

Thanks.

Yeah soil classification I can handle. I looked over retaining wall a little too I feel more comfortable with that. Which I was lost before.

I guess I will leave all structural problems to last and hope for the best. Might look over a few things.

 

[milwaukee-geotech]

Structural also seams to be my weak point and have been trying to figure out on to improve this area in the last couple of days here.

 

[EnvEngineer]

For structural know how to do sum of forces = 0 and sum of moments = 0, that will take you far. The force and moment diagrams for beams in the appendix of cerm are really helpful as well.