DMB5mil
Active member
Hello,
This question is for past PE examinees:
I've found in past open book exams that I spend lots of time preparing my references only to hardly use them during the test. I would like to avoid spending lots of study time organizing and practicing using references if I don't need to.
How critical would you say having lots of reference books at hand during the test REALLY is? Do they provide a comfort blanket more than anything else? How did you typically use references during the exam? For example, were you able to start most problems but turned to references to help push you through, or did they come in handy when a unexpected problem/topic came up, or were they used primarily to provide various formulas, etc?
If you could do it all over again, what would you change about your reference materials? Perhaps you'd put all the relavent formulas from practice problems onto a few sheets in a binder so you didn't have to flip through different books to find the most used formulas?
Any tips would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Brian
This question is for past PE examinees:
I've found in past open book exams that I spend lots of time preparing my references only to hardly use them during the test. I would like to avoid spending lots of study time organizing and practicing using references if I don't need to.
How critical would you say having lots of reference books at hand during the test REALLY is? Do they provide a comfort blanket more than anything else? How did you typically use references during the exam? For example, were you able to start most problems but turned to references to help push you through, or did they come in handy when a unexpected problem/topic came up, or were they used primarily to provide various formulas, etc?
If you could do it all over again, what would you change about your reference materials? Perhaps you'd put all the relavent formulas from practice problems onto a few sheets in a binder so you didn't have to flip through different books to find the most used formulas?
Any tips would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Brian