October 2021 Post Exam Wait Period - Welcome to the Suck

[TheSecretAngel]

How do you think you did?

I left the test feeling like if I failed, it was barely, if I passed, it was barely, so pretty on par with everyone else.
weirdly enough I was fine with the waiting period and actually mostly forgot until I started getting bombarded with "have you found out???" questions from everyone this weekend, and it started an itch that's brought me here. lol

I need to just reset back to last week and forget I even took it but Pandora's box has been opened I guess LOL

How did you feel?

 

[DoctorWho-PE]

Don't just accept the worst right off the bat! Prepare for the worst, yes, but hope for the best!

As long as you are confident that you got 55/80 right, it will all fall into place. Because there may be some you got wrong from those, but others you got right that you're not as confident on.

And if you add in a few extras that you guessed on, that pushes you close to 70%!

55/80????? UGH, I ONLY HAD 44 questions!

 

[TheSecretAngel]

55/80????? UGH, I ONLY HAD 44 questions!

I don't know how ya'll did it, i was so hyper focused on the test i didn't take note of how many questions i felt comfortable with my answer vs not.

I blind guessed on 5 questions. I know there were other questions that i did and got an answer but it didn't match up with any of the given answers so i just picked the answer closest to mine (they weren't always close) but i can't remember how many questions that could have been lol.

At this point only thing I remember was coming out thinking "if I failed, it was barely, if I passed, it was barely" so that's what i tell everyone so far

 

[DoctorWho-PE]

I don't know how ya'll did it, i was so hyper focused on the test i didn't take note of how many questions i felt comfortable with my answer vs not.

I blind guessed on 5 questions. I know there were other questions that i did and got an answer but it didn't match up with any of the given answers so i just picked the answer closest to mine (they weren't always close) but i can't remember how many questions that could have been lol.

At this point only thing I remember was coming out thinking "if I failed, it was barely, if I passed, it was barely" so that's what i tell everyone so far

Well, I blind guessed 12 questions at the end of the morning. I meant that more as a joke, since my test only has 40 MCQ and 4 long form questions.

 

[TheSecretAngel]

Well, I blind guessed 12 questions at the end of the morning. I meant that more as a joke, since my test only has 40 MCQ and 4 long form questions.

Oh i forgot there is other exams being administered lol

 

[P-E]

You have two left testicles? Impressive!

That’s nuts!

 

[Tiger15]

55/80????? UGH, I ONLY HAD 44 questions!

@vhab49_PE you probably got 55/44

 

[CivilPE2022]

I left the test feeling like if I failed, it was barely, if I passed, it was barely, so pretty on par with everyone else.
weirdly enough I was fine with the waiting period and actually mostly forgot until I started getting bombarded with "have you found out???" questions from everyone this weekend, and it started an itch that's brought me here. lol

I need to just reset back to last week and forget I even took it but Pandora's box has been opened I guess LOL

How did you feel?

I did excellent in the morning and beyond terrible in the afternoon.. idk what's wrong with me haha

 

[CivilPE2022]

@vhab49_PE you probably got 55/44

Slow down! Your calculator's buttons can fall out with that finger speed!!

 

[DoctorWho-PE]

@vhab49_PE you probably got 55/44

Yaaaaas

 

[morphe83 PE]

I left the test feeling like if I failed, it was barely, if I passed, it was barely, so pretty on par with everyone else.
weirdly enough I was fine with the waiting period and actually mostly forgot until I started getting bombarded with "have you found out???" questions from everyone this weekend, and it started an itch that's brought me here. lol

I need to just reset back to last week and forget I even took it but Pandora's box has been opened I guess LOL

How did you feel?

I felt good after the morning portion even though I had like 5 questions I mainly guessed so not sure, then for the afternoon not good, I remember when the proctor said 5mn left I just rushed and put random answers for the 5 questions left I couldn't do, the 35 I would say 6 or 7 I am pretty sure I got them wrong, so what' really left are 28 but I have no confidence at all I did them right but I did my best. so I am like 50/50 feeling.

 

[MeowMeow PE]

I did excellent in the morning and beyond terrible in the afternoon.. idk what's wrong with me haha

can't remember if you said...did you take structures? I feel the same way. Felt GREAT about the morning, then the afternoon was BRUTAL!!!

 

[TheSecretAngel]

can't remember if you said...did you take structures? I feel the same way. Felt GREAT about the morning, then the afternoon was BRUTAL!!!

What did you take in the afternoon?

 

[RBHeadge PE]

I feel like the WTTS thread is making the suck worse for me this time around. In April I didn't discover this thread until about 2 weeks before the results came out. I was checking here often, but by then I new it would be soon. This time around I feel like I need to check this thread regularly, but it's still very far away

Realistically nothing is going to happen before Nov 30. No need to F5 obsessively before then.

The real stress starts after Thanksgiving weekend. It gets geometrically worse every day. But the absolute worst part? That's the time period between the first State releases and when you get your results. Time stands still. You can't concentrate on anything. It just a bundle of nerves waiting for fate to come.

The first wait, it was TWO WEEKS between when the first State came out and when the last State (Maryland) finally released. That when I started calling it "the suck". The next year the results were delayed for everyone. I had to wait two days between the first release and when Maryland dropped. That was even worse than the year before.

As long as you are confident that you got 55/80 right, it will all fall into place.

In all sincerity 57/80 is probably the safest score. We've never seen a 57 fail.

I left the test feeling like if I failed, it was barely, if I passed, it was barely, so pretty on par with everyone else.

It's probably the hardest place to be. Speaking from experience, the borderline feelings are the worst. I agree that most people searching the interent are probably in a similar situation.

weirdly enough I was fine with the waiting period and actually mostly forgot until I started getting bombarded with "have you found out???" questions from everyone this weekend, and it started an itch that's brought me here. lol

It gets so much worse starting in December, and worse again every week thereafter.

I don't know how ya'll did it, i was so hyper focused on the test i didn't take note of how many questions i felt comfortable with my answer vs not.

That was one of my lessons learned from the first attempt. I self graded with percentages every time I answered a question. And left a little bit of time at the end to tally it all up. My final tally was like 56.6 or 57.3 or something like that. Way too close for comfort.

 

[MeowMeow PE]

What did you take in the afternoon?

Structural. you?

 

[CivilPE2022]

can't remember if you said...did you take structures? I feel the same way. Felt GREAT about the morning, then the afternoon was BRUTAL!!!

I took transportation. Bruh.. if your afternoon was BRUTAL!!! mine was BRUTALLL with 3'L lol. I prepared like 10 weeks or less.. so let's see.. how much did you prepare?

 

[leggo PE]

I feel like the WTTS thread is making the suck worse for me this time around. In April I didn't discover this thread until about 2 weeks before the results came out. I was checking here often, but by then I new it would be soon. This time around I feel like I need to check this thread regularly, but it's still very far away

Do you want something to raise your spirits? Let me mention the spam thread, one of the most active threads on the site currently. The spam thread can be anything you want, to blow off some steam and relax a bit, by going crazy posting spam!

https://engineerboards.com/threads/october-2021-15k-spam-thread.37634/

 

[MeowMeow PE]

I took transportation. Bruh.. if your afternoon was BRUTAL!!! mine was BRUTALLL with 3'L lol. I prepared like 10 weeks or less.. so let's see.. how much did you prepare?

well this was my third time taking the exam. This time I did an online class....studied for about 3.5 months... didn't follow the class entirely and as much as I should have though.

 

[morphe83 PE]

well this was my third time taking the exam. This time I did an online class....studied for about 3.5 months... didn't follow the class entirely and as much as I should have though.

I took On Demand classes too, they are great for morning portion but depth portion (mine was structural too) about at least 10 to 15 questions I would say, seeing them for the first time they were codes look up and it takes time to find them, especially when questions sounds like either ASCE or IBC and you pick up first the wrong code lol and end up having to redo the look up in the right code...those time consuming questions almost made me freakout, but I was telling myself you sacrificed all those evenings and weekends studying these last months, you can't give up...keep going but couldn't finish, just put random answers for 5 questions I couldn't work on, and I have no confidence in the ones I worked . I am praying that we will pass. On Demand classes still helped me with the remaining PM questions.

 

[tdeckcox]

well this was my third time taking the exam. This time I did an online class....studied for about 3.5 months... didn't follow the class entirely and as much as I should have though.

I took structural for the first time. Took a class and studied religiously and still felt like the afternoon portion kicked my teeth in. It was ROUGH and that was the general consensus in the class I took as well.