First attempt, fail
Here's my diagnostic report for the Civil - Transportation:
Breadth - Construction - 75
Breadth - Geotechnical - 62
Breadth - Structural - 50
Breadth - Transportation - 75
Breadth - Water and Env. - 75
Traffic Analysis - 56
Geometric Design - 67
Transportation Planning - 67
Traffic Safety - 50
Other Topics - 70
I computer my amount of problems correct to be 52. I heard that the passing score is around 56. So close, yet so far. It's really a mental challenge after one realizes they didn't pass as they put so much effort into this. Again, we can't dwell on it but keep on chugging. Here's what I've done to study, I briefly went through the ASCE Smart Pros CDs which helped me get familiar with the topics, went through the NCEES books (both version), went through the CERM and tabbed it good. I felt good going into the exam but realized it was not what I expected. The NCEES book helped maybe with about 5 problems maybe 8. CERM helped with a few but a lot was intuition and just doing problems over and over again to realize where to find certain equations.
Now my question to those who passed maybe on your second try or even third or fourth was what change did you do? What do you think I can do? I have the 6 min. solutions and did a few of them but more like skimmed through it and the answers. But now I'm thinking of hitting them hard like actually working them out on a notebook. I was also thinking of signing up for ppi2pass's Passing Zone and maybe even their exam cafe for more problems. I know because I took the exam and was close I was say at 65% passing, since the test I probably forgot some material so I'm down to about 40% maybe even 30%. I have to get at least up to 80-90% to be confident and walk out of that test center with a better feeling knowing I did it. What's your advice everyone! Thanks guys!