I had posted a similar question awhile back about that link. No one answered, and the people I knew that passed didn't even know what the link was about. So I didn't bother with it.
It's scary not knowing exactly what to expect the first time you take the exam. One of the more difficult things is that we cannot discuss the contents of the exam. So we cannot give details about it without getting into trouble. But, I can say this... if you are looking for similarity, refer to the NCEES exam. If you are still anxious, practice problems that only fall into the NCEES Che Exam topics.
I did a first pass at the NCEES 2004 exam for time to see what I could get right and did not do so hot, I then went back and did all the Nandagopal problems and am now going back through the NCEES exam and writing out the answers very neatly as some of the solutions in the back are kind of kryptic. I did a few of the 6 min solution problems as well but need to go back and do more of thoes. The thing that worries me the most is the randomness of like half the after noon questions in the NCEES 2004 exam, its like they picked random facts in perrys and made a question out of it and thats spooky because digging anything up out of perrys is a chore especially if you dont already know where it is. Another thing in the NCEES questions in the morning they were not always straight forward like asking what Q is or Solve for U it was like solve for the ratio which did not boil down to concepts but just algebraic manipulation, also knowing when to use a fouling factor and when not to, unless you know all the possible fluids that can cause fouling this is kinda a crap shoot (plus I have a standard value for F when I need to use it but if I was not sure and had to calculate it the calculation for F is computationally involved just for one factor in the equation). I like the idea of going through and labeling easy medium and hard, I did that with the EIT and it worked then. As far as being selective about the questions that I work, I did most every question out of the thicker practice problem book when I started studying a few years ago and realized there was some irrelavant stuff on that so in the plant design part I stopped after phycometrics. I probably should spend a weekend here on engineering economics as I have kind of glossed over that topic and it could be on the test.
I guess its the luck part of the exam that makes me uneasy like knowing off the back of my hand about the graph for multicomponent flash so I can just circle the answer (like when I answered question 510 on the NCEES exam, I just happened to see that graph and remembered it flipping through perrys a year ago at work, but that was a fluke) or do I need to take the full 6 min to dig it out of perrys.
I probably ought to just knock it off or im going to phyce myself out lol.
Also how soon in the mail did you get all the information about where to go and what to bring/not bring, it is about a month out and I still have not got anything, I would like to go check out the exam site during hours that I can actually go in and im suspecting its a church downtown like where they have the EIT and the last set of PE exams but am not sure.
Anyways I have done umpteen hours of study and have all the advice and once I neatly work out the last of the practice questions that will be all she wrote, then its in God's hands after that, it would be so embarasing if I failed not to mention in this economy I feel like the bottom wrungs of the carrer ladder are falling off below me as I climb so I dont feel like I can afford to stall my climb. I feel like I need every qualification and licence an engineer can get and be willing to work for 10-20K less than im worth just to stay out from under a bridge.
Kind of like the pursut of happieness with will smith, only he did fall off the colapsing wrungs of the ladder and had to climb a rope, I dont want to climb the rope lol. Sorry now im just venting.
