There is lot of information for Power discpline in this section. Can any of you guys who have taken the Electronics exam in the latest format (since April 2009) give some advice on what books to use for passing
I took the latest format and passed it the first try. I used the Camara (yes the big monster) and also the accompanying exercise book. The questions in those are not really anything like the actual exam but they do reinforce the concepts fairly well. I did all the problems in the exercise book at least 3, maybe even 4 times each. I did the the Camara practice exam and the NCEES practice exams about 3 or 4 times each until I know how to do each and every problem. I also used the Kaplan PE Electrical books which are much more difficult than the actual exam but if you can do those problems the PE exam will be easy.
In general I would say know your circuits, I mean really know them. DC, AC, transient, LaPlace and Fourier transforms. There aren't any computation intensive questions on the exam but you need to know the concepts very well (like Thevenin and Norton equivalents) otherwise some of the problems you don't even know how to begin. From what I hear from others who took the same exam (two fellow examinees) they both thought the exam was fairly easy. All of us left about an hour and a half early for both the AM and PM sections.
There were no power or engineering economic questions at all.
