Anutka2
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I'm taking the MD depth in about a month and finished reviewing the MERM a few weeks ago. I went through all the the 6MS (full MD and just breadth of HVAC and T/F) and have been a little overwhelmed with the difficultly of some problems.
I decided to take the practice NCEES (2011) test this weekend to get a better feel for what difficulty of problems I should expect. I did this as a real practice test, giving myself 8 hrs total. I found that the morning session was a lot easier than I expected - it was such a relief! The afternoon session was more difficult and I skipped maybe 6 or 8 problems altogether and ran out of time. The results were much more disappointing - I got sometime like 25/40 for morning and 23/40 for afternoon.
I spend the day yesterday going through the problems again and figuring out where I went wrong. I feel a little better now knowing that my mistakes for the morning portion were generally pretty stupid and could've been avoided if I was more focused. For the afternoon though, I don't think I could've done much better. I haven't been using Shigley at all and didn't have time to dig though it during my practice test. I can figure out those problems now that I've gone over them, but unless the real test asks those particular types again, I think I'll be lost/out of time to really dig in and solve them
I have the Lindeburn Practice Test and 101 Solved Problems. I definitely want to go through the Practice Test even though those problems are more difficult. Don't know if I'll have time for 101 Solve Problems. I don't have the 2001 NCEES practice test (unless anyone is willing to sell theirs ???) so I won't have a chance to do another run-through of the full test unless I do 2011 NCEES again. Any suggestions on what I should do with just a month left to go??
I decided to take the practice NCEES (2011) test this weekend to get a better feel for what difficulty of problems I should expect. I did this as a real practice test, giving myself 8 hrs total. I found that the morning session was a lot easier than I expected - it was such a relief! The afternoon session was more difficult and I skipped maybe 6 or 8 problems altogether and ran out of time. The results were much more disappointing - I got sometime like 25/40 for morning and 23/40 for afternoon.
I spend the day yesterday going through the problems again and figuring out where I went wrong. I feel a little better now knowing that my mistakes for the morning portion were generally pretty stupid and could've been avoided if I was more focused. For the afternoon though, I don't think I could've done much better. I haven't been using Shigley at all and didn't have time to dig though it during my practice test. I can figure out those problems now that I've gone over them, but unless the real test asks those particular types again, I think I'll be lost/out of time to really dig in and solve them
I have the Lindeburn Practice Test and 101 Solved Problems. I definitely want to go through the Practice Test even though those problems are more difficult. Don't know if I'll have time for 101 Solve Problems. I don't have the 2001 NCEES practice test (unless anyone is willing to sell theirs ???) so I won't have a chance to do another run-through of the full test unless I do 2011 NCEES again. Any suggestions on what I should do with just a month left to go??