Thanks. I had a tremendously busy quarter and only studied about 3 weeks for survey and 4 weeks for Seismic.
I took C
ivil PE Surveying Review course and EET for seismic.
I loved the format and interface of CPE Surveying review but NOT the course material. The webinars were a little elementary, could have been done more concisely to save time. I didn't even finish the horizontal/vertical curves course, but I do a LOT of CAD and am good at geometry so most stuff was pretty remedial.
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LOVED the material from EET and I thought the manual was great, but I hated that Adobe connect interface. Really clunky and not user friendly. My main problem was I just didn't start studying seismic material early enough. I have 3 little kids and I was traveling a LOT for work (3-4 days every other week) and only started studying 1 month in advance of the exam. I put in about 40 hours of studying across that time, mostly watching the videos. I didn't do any of the practice exams, just watched the videos and did the workshops and practice problems. My downfall was not practicing enough, the exam questions were very similar to the exam.
I did think EET was lacking some of the code-related questions about post-earthquake inspections and special inspection sections.
That said, I feel relieved to only have to study one topic now. I feel very confident in EET materials and I'll be ready for re-test in July.