Took Wed and Thursday off. Plan to get in some studying over the weekend and again on Wed, then head to the hotel Thurs afternoon. I keep telling myself I won't open a book on Thursday, but knowing me, I won't be able to resist.
I feel OK about most of the breadth topics. I scored a 70% (missed 12) on the breadth portion of the NCEES practice exam a few weeks ago. I think I should definitely be able to improve upon that during the real test. I made some dumb mistakes that are easily correctable by exercising a little more caution when going about solving the problems. However, I was surprised that several of my "wrong" answers were actually listed as answers. I must have made typical mistakes that NCEES knows a lot of people make, so they throw those answers in - sneaky!!
Additionally, I seem to have a really have a hard time with the definition/knowledge type problems that don't require any math to solve them. Some of them you can look up in the CERM, but the majority of the time the answers are worded completely different from anything you'll find in the CERM, and unless you're really knowledgeable about the topic, it's hard to pick the correct answer. I was surprised how many of those there were on the practice exam.
As for the water resources & environmental portion of the exam, yikes - I did not do well. For the most part I let myself get overwhelmed with the harder problems and spent too much time trying to solve things I was never going to be able to solve no matter how much time I had. At the end of 4 hrs, I only had roughly half the questions answered. So, I will definitely be trying to bone up a little on those topics, and do my best to not freak out during the test when I see a problem I don't know how to solve right off the bat. I'll just skip it until I come to something I know how to do. Hopefully I don't find myself on question 40 having answered no problems!
