I'm furiously trying to find time to study for the MD depth this April.
So far, after about 10-20 hours of studying, I took the 2011 AM and PM practice exam. I scored a 87.5% on the AM, 67.5% on the PM.
I was really not pleased with my PM performance, so I did a ton of MERM practice problems in my weak areas, and have worked through about 90% of the SMS (breadth and depth) book (some of these problems take ages, but I keep plugging through, I estimate I can get about 60-70% of them right).
I just finished up the 2001 AM session, and got an 80%. So I did worse after probably 120-150 hr+ of studying I've put in between the attempts.
I was really confident when I first started, as the FE exam material became super easy to me with a little studying even 10 years after school. I wouldn't say I'm doing poorly, but there is so much subject material on the PE exam that it's tough to really feel like you're conquering the whole subject material (on the "hard" questions really, I do well on all concept questions).
Anyway, to sum it up, how did you guys do on the NCEES practice exams vs. the PE exam performance?
So far, after about 10-20 hours of studying, I took the 2011 AM and PM practice exam. I scored a 87.5% on the AM, 67.5% on the PM.
I was really not pleased with my PM performance, so I did a ton of MERM practice problems in my weak areas, and have worked through about 90% of the SMS (breadth and depth) book (some of these problems take ages, but I keep plugging through, I estimate I can get about 60-70% of them right).
I just finished up the 2001 AM session, and got an 80%. So I did worse after probably 120-150 hr+ of studying I've put in between the attempts.
I was really confident when I first started, as the FE exam material became super easy to me with a little studying even 10 years after school. I wouldn't say I'm doing poorly, but there is so much subject material on the PE exam that it's tough to really feel like you're conquering the whole subject material (on the "hard" questions really, I do well on all concept questions).
Anyway, to sum it up, how did you guys do on the NCEES practice exams vs. the PE exam performance?