For those who are curious, you can check out historical reporting time frames here:
http://engineerboards.com/index.php?showtopic=10519
I did some analysis of the historical results reporting times for Oregon as follows:
Oct 2005 Exam: Results Received on 1/12/2006, 75 days of waiting, 12 days after WA e-mail results
Apr 2006 Exam: Results Received on 7/14/2006, 84 days of waiting, 28 days after WA e-mail results
Oct 2006 Exam: Results Received on 1/11/2007, 76 days of waiting, 19 days after WA e-mail results
Apr 2007 Exam: Results Received on 6/27/2007, 68 days of waiting, 14 days after WA e-mail results
Oct 2007 Exam: Results Received on 1/4/2008, 70 days of waiting, 14 days after WA e-mail results
Apr 2008 Exam: Results Received on 6/14/2008, 64 days of waiting, 4 days after WA e-mail results
Oct 2008 Exam: Results Received on 1/14/2009, 82 days of waiting, 29 days after WA e-mail results, *Ran out of pocket cards
Apr 2009 Exam: Results Received on 7/22/2009, 89 days of waiting, 34 days after WA e-mail results, *NCEES sent inaccurate results
In looking at the results, the last two exams were delayed for non-typical reasons, so I'm going to exclude from my analysis any exams with results reported after 80+ days, since that is only going to occur when something gets messed up (which is likely with OSBEELS but lets hope for the best for now).
- Excluding Apr 06, Oct 08 and Apr 09, the average waiting time across all exams was 70.6 days, which would have results being released on 1/1/2010.
- Fall exams took slightly longer to report, 73.6 days versus 66 days for spring exams (likely due to holidays), which would have results being released on 1/4/2010.
- If you look at how many days after WA receives their results (which is an indicator of when NCEES sends results out), for fall exams, OR test takers receive results an average of 15 days after WA test takers receive results via e-mail, which would have results being released on 12/31/2010.
Therefore, barring extenuating circumstances that would delay the results, I expect results sometime between 12/31/2009 and 1/8/2010 (I extended it to Friday since the average reporting time frame was over a holiday weekend)
A few other notes:
- Most years (the only exception I know of is the year they were upgrading their computer systems), the results are uploaded to the website the same day they mail out the letters. Thus, depending on where you live, you will likely be able to find your name on the website 1 or 2 days before you receive your letter in the mail.
- Did you submit your Take-home Ethics Exam? OSBEELS will NOT release your results (Pass or Fail) until you pass that take-home exam. One of my co-workers was convinced she had failed and never bothered to submit her ethics exam. Future exam applicants will be required to pass this test prior to being allowed to sit for the PE exam.
- It sounds like many of you are reluctant to call OSBEELS to get an estimate of when exam results are going to be released. I would encourage you to call anyway for a few reasons: First, the more information you know, the better. Often, depending who you talk to, you can get a different response, so the more people who contact OSBEELS, the more information you'll have (such as if they've received results and are processing them or if they haven't received them yet from NCEES). Second, at some point in the near future, I am going to recommend that the board pursue direct e-mail notification from NCEES (what WA does) with the primary benefit being that it relieves stress from OSBEELS staff in dealing with people asking about when results will be released. Of course, when you do contact OSBEELS, be courteous and do not call excessively.
Good luck to everyone!
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