Oct 2015

[denver1000 PE]

I agree with both of you guys, the AM felt good but the PM not as great as I expected. I took the Mech systems & materials Depth. I'm so f'ing anxious about the results!!! At this point, I feel this 8-10 week wait is going to be more tedious than studying for the actual exam...

Whew glad it wasn't just me for the pm. I felt the pm was ok. I did think it was much harder than the practice tests. I also don't think I could have studied any differently or covered any more material than I did even in hindsight though. I also thought there was something not quite right with one question which I will email ncees about for sure.

 

[slickjohannes]

No- I was told by a few people that T&F is easier. It's the core of my job as well, so that helped.

 

[AK Eyes]

Anyone on here take HVAC afternoon? I'd love to hear your thoughts

 

[matt267 PE]

as soon as matt gets off his @$$ and starts studying

I might want to start now.

 

[dvtn]

I took PE structural portion and felt the exam was easier than the one in April but then again I had a lot more practice since failing back on April.

 

[Atharaenea]

I took civil with transportation depth and thought the AM was a nightmare. PM was a little better but still at least as difficult as SMS. I should probably start studying for April.

 

[matt267 PE]

I agree, the AM sucked. The water depth was good.

 

[P-E]

I agree with both of you guys, the AM felt good but the PM not as great as I expected. I took the Mech systems & materials Depth. I'm so f'ing anxious about the results!!! At this point, I feel this 8-10 week wait is going to be more tedious than studying for the actual exam...

Whew glad it wasn't just me for the pm. I felt the pm was ok. I did think it was much harder than the practice tests. I also don't think I could have studied any differently or covered any more material than I did even in hindsight though. I also thought there was something not quite right with one question which I will email ncees about for sure.

When I took it I thought the pm questions were much tougher. I found reviewing the pm material a couple weeks before the exam made the difference between passing and failing.

 

[denver1000 PE]

I agree with both of you guys, the AM felt good but the PM not as great as I expected. I took the Mech systems & materials Depth. I'm so f'ing anxious about the results!!! At this point, I feel this 8-10 week wait is going to be more tedious than studying for the actual exam...

Whew glad it wasn't just me for the pm. I felt the pm was ok. I did think it was much harder than the practice tests. I also don't think I could have studied any differently or covered any more material than I did even in hindsight though. I also thought there was something not quite right with one question which I will email ncees about for sure.

When I took it I thought the pm questions were much tougher. I found reviewing the pm material a couple weeks before the exam made the difference between passing and failing.

I took your advice... but I felt these were a bit specific in terms of topics and there were two clusters of 3 qs each that were really tough for me. The rest was ok but I definitely felt some took longer than 6 minutes and as a result I made a silly mistake of leaving 2 I marked as easy to the end and didn't have enough time to do those 2 properly. I had to take educated guesses on those which isn't the worst thing in the world but I didn't feel as good as I did leaving the am by any means. I suspect I should have left the ones marked as harder to the end in hindsight.

 

[JCivil]

I took the PM transportation section and I felt it was tougher than the AM. Hopefully I got a passing score. I feel like I did ok since I took the SOPE review class but a lot of the exam questions were quite different than the SOPE examples. At the end of both exams I counted up my ABCD bubbles and they came out close to being used equally. Hopefully I will not have to repeat the exam. It was a beast!

 

[P-E]

I agree with both of you guys, the AM felt good but the PM not as great as I expected. I took the Mech systems & materials Depth. I'm so f'ing anxious about the results!!! At this point, I feel this 8-10 week wait is going to be more tedious than studying for the actual exam...

Whew glad it wasn't just me for the pm. I felt the pm was ok. I did think it was much harder than the practice tests. I also don't think I could have studied any differently or covered any more material than I did even in hindsight though. I also thought there was something not quite right with one question which I will email ncees about for sure.

When I took it I thought the pm questions were much tougher. I found reviewing the pm material a couple weeks before the exam made the difference between passing and failing.

I took your advice... but I felt these were a bit specific in terms of topics and there were two clusters of 3 qs each that were really tough for me. The rest was ok but I definitely felt some took longer than 6 minutes and as a result I made a silly mistake of leaving 2 I marked as easy to the end and didn't have enough time to do those 2 properly. I had to take educated guesses on those which isn't the worst thing in the world but I didn't feel as good as I did leaving the am by any means. I suspect I should have left the ones marked as harder to the end in hindsight.

Yup that was a bad strategy. If you think you got almost all correct in the am you probably have a good shot at passing.

 

[denver1000 PE]

It's close for me to be honest... I feel good about the am and only unsure of 2 or 3. And ok on the pm but still it was hard. So we'll see! I would be feeling much better if I was 100% sure of the answers for 2 I knew how to solve at the beginning.

 

[P-E]

That's about how I felt and passed. I'd bet you did.

 

[denver1000 PE]

I hope so.

 

[CHEspinosa]

I really hope we all pass... I really don't want to retake this exam!!

 

[denver1000 PE]

I really hope we all pass... I really don't want to retake this exam!!

Agreed!

 

[JHW 3d]

So... The lights went out in our afternoon session with about 20 min left. That was interesting. Came back on about 10 min later. Gave the people near wonders a bit of an advantage. They had enough light to actually do work through that period.

In terms of my prep, the thing I was really not prepared for was the mental grind under pressure. I didn't take any practice tests. I think that out me at a disadvantage. But not in the way I would expect. I felt okay in the morning but hit a major wall in the afternoon with an hour to go. Blood sugar levels were way down and that was a killer.

 

[AK Eyes]

Sorry to hear about your afternoon experience JHW3, that sounds horrible! I know I was already pressed for time and anxious enough without having any major incidents like a power outage! I took two practice exams before the test, timed and at the right time of day, and still struggled through the afternoon. Honestly, after the morning session I didn't know how I was going to do that for another 4 hours...

Just out of curiousity, which morning/afternoon exam did you take?

 

[hjg7715]

Interesting reading varying opinions and would be curious to hear what study methods and/or resources people used. I didn't take any courses or really do any studying of concepts, I simply used PPI2Pass Exam Cafe to do practice problems and felt it adequately prepared me for the types of problems on the exam. However, I don't believe I put enough practice time in the afternoon depth for Civil - Water Resources. I felt the morning session was slightly easier than I anticipated and the afternoon was more difficult. I feel like I got 75%-80% of morning problems correct, but only 50%-55% of the afternoon problems which will put be very close to the cut score/percentage needed to pass.

 

[hgao1]

I took the Civil/Water, the morning part killed me, and PM was fine.