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Hello there,
If you want to pass the PE EE_Power this is what you have to do...Just kidding
. I do not know how in the blue sky I passed . Only GOD and his mercy. Here I will tell you what I did, good and bad. You will make your own decission.
I tried three times. The first one I was so stupid and did not study at all. Maybe 8 hours. I just wanted to "get a feeling for the test". BIG MISTAKE my friends. :blink: Came out furious with myself. "If only I had studied more" :brick: :angry: . Found the test do-able. But did not pass, as deserved. Got a 64, the last time Puerto Rico showed scores.
The second time I spill my guts studying. I really think I was ready and honestly, I was pretty confident I was going to pass. What happened? [SIZE=14pt]Wilma[/SIZE] happened. I planned on not to study the last week(ANOTHER BIG MISTAKE) and have a relaxation time. Well, I did not study but worked 16 hours (that was what I put in my timesheet but were more than that) for 4 straight days and my flight was almost cancelled since Fort Lauderdale airport was closed until Thursday morning. At the middle of the morning session I was down for the count :blink: . My body was there, my mind, who knows where :blink: .
Now the good stuff. For this third time I had a review class," On-Line", from the University of South Florida at Tampa. I highly reccomend this review. No matter from where in the sates you are it can be done. I believe there were people from Arizona and South Carolina in the past group :google: (http://apex.eng.usf.edu/professional/current_pdofferings.asp) The classes are once a week, Thursday, but they are recorded and you can review them all the times you want. I did it. A review class from an University of Miami prof., Prof. Cereijo, was offered by my company after working hours and I did it. Also, in addition of the "the other board"'s materials(not the best but there is no something else), and the NCEES practice test (excellent), I bought a book from Kaplan and a practice test also. I spent the last two weeks with the NCEES and the Kaplan practice test. Think it was the diff. Also I took the week off, traveled to P.R. Sunday before the test and stayed far from the family there(distractions). After all I was not there for a vacation. I was on a mission
Try to crush the morning session :ruh: . I believe this is the key. For the Power Module, IMHO, the afternoon was very... very tough :fool: . Other thing happened to me before the test that helped me. Three weeks before the test I changed positions on my job and my new co-worker, who also took the PE, explained to me several things the first week and from his training I was able to answer more than 7 questions( protection, generation, power quality, power systens) GOD bless him (he also passed and was his first time) :claps: Job experience count.
If you wish more info about the review classes I took let me know posting here. I will be more than happy to help, my friend. I am not pretending to be an all knowing now. I just want to share the things that helped me and also tell you my mistakes, especially the first one I made going to the test without preparation. Is your call any ways. For me it worked and now I can say...
;guns; ;guns; ;guns; ;guns;
If you want to pass the PE EE_Power this is what you have to do...Just kidding
. I do not know how in the blue sky I passed . Only GOD and his mercy. Here I will tell you what I did, good and bad. You will make your own decission.I tried three times. The first one I was so stupid and did not study at all. Maybe 8 hours. I just wanted to "get a feeling for the test". BIG MISTAKE my friends. :blink: Came out furious with myself. "If only I had studied more" :brick: :angry: . Found the test do-able. But did not pass, as deserved. Got a 64, the last time Puerto Rico showed scores.
The second time I spill my guts studying. I really think I was ready and honestly, I was pretty confident I was going to pass. What happened? [SIZE=14pt]Wilma[/SIZE] happened. I planned on not to study the last week(ANOTHER BIG MISTAKE) and have a relaxation time. Well, I did not study but worked 16 hours (that was what I put in my timesheet but were more than that) for 4 straight days and my flight was almost cancelled since Fort Lauderdale airport was closed until Thursday morning. At the middle of the morning session I was down for the count :blink: . My body was there, my mind, who knows where :blink: .
Now the good stuff. For this third time I had a review class," On-Line", from the University of South Florida at Tampa. I highly reccomend this review. No matter from where in the sates you are it can be done. I believe there were people from Arizona and South Carolina in the past group :google: (http://apex.eng.usf.edu/professional/current_pdofferings.asp) The classes are once a week, Thursday, but they are recorded and you can review them all the times you want. I did it. A review class from an University of Miami prof., Prof. Cereijo, was offered by my company after working hours and I did it. Also, in addition of the "the other board"'s materials(not the best but there is no something else), and the NCEES practice test (excellent), I bought a book from Kaplan and a practice test also. I spent the last two weeks with the NCEES and the Kaplan practice test. Think it was the diff. Also I took the week off, traveled to P.R. Sunday before the test and stayed far from the family there(distractions). After all I was not there for a vacation. I was on a mission
Try to crush the morning session :ruh: . I believe this is the key. For the Power Module, IMHO, the afternoon was very... very tough :fool: . Other thing happened to me before the test that helped me. Three weeks before the test I changed positions on my job and my new co-worker, who also took the PE, explained to me several things the first week and from his training I was able to answer more than 7 questions( protection, generation, power quality, power systens) GOD bless him (he also passed and was his first time) :claps: Job experience count.
If you wish more info about the review classes I took let me know posting here. I will be more than happy to help, my friend. I am not pretending to be an all knowing now. I just want to share the things that helped me and also tell you my mistakes, especially the first one I made going to the test without preparation. Is your call any ways. For me it worked and now I can say...
;guns; ;guns; ;guns; ;guns;
