Absolutely. Well man good luck. Let's talk over these next months and see if we can't help each other out.I know right, I was telling my wife I would honestly pay an arm and a leg if I could guarantee that I wouldn't be repeating the exam again. I hope the third time is the charm for us, ain't nobody got time for datI hope my seismic and survey results are in my favor though, fingers crossed. Then I can say i'm a 2/3 PE
@CivilPE88...I'm sorry to hear you haven't passed the exam. I'm right there with you bud...earlier this week I got the news that I didn't pass the Mechanical PE exam for the third time. I am now registered for the April '18 exam but still struggling to find a balance between study time, personal life, work, etc. In my previous 3 attempts, I put in easily 300 hours of studying (~25-30 hrs a week). I basically had a 2nd job and had to neglect virtually every aspect of my life so I could focus on the exam. This fourth time, I need to change something as obviously over-studying is not helping me. Part of the disadvantage I had is that I had to re-learn key concepts and that's where 1/2 my time went. Now, I'm going to spend most of my time doing practice problems and plan on putting in something more manageable like 200 hrs (still 16 hrs a week) starting in mid-Jan so I can find time to keep myself sane and motivated to do this again.
I'm sorry you didn't pass on your third attempt as well, but I know we all will eventually! Ive pretty much applied the same study methods as you mentioned above, but this time around, I intend on just working on practice problems, to drill the concepts in my head along with supplemental EET notes i'm borrowing from my coworker.
Thanks... and exactly right.. at this time we know the material.. we just need to practice practice practice and drill stuff into our heads... good luck to you man! And kudos for not giving up...
same to you brother, be stronger than the exam, everyone has their personal struggles in life, the 8 hr exam is currently mine, we got this!
Personally I can't wait for the new Star Wars to come out...we need other things to look forward to besides the next PE exam
I'm taking WRE depth again (for the third time) in April 2018 as well. Facebook group for support?
Google Hangout is another excellent collaboration resource that I used throughout my masters degree program. :thumbs:
I passed the 2nd time in WRE. I highly recommend EET! My weakness was in breadth. I don't feel like EET is as strong in breadth as they are in depth (specifically speaking about WRE). I should say, their content is good but their instructors just weren't my style, so I went over the content on my own. As for the depth... Nasrul is the man! He genuinely cares about your success, and he guarantees it.
I'm also WRE. I took SOPE the first time and EET (WRE depth only) the second time. I went ahead and signed up for the free repeat with SOPE - and then printed the new notes and reviewed them before the test - I didn't have time to rewatch the on-demand videos. The EET WRE depth is worth every penny. I couldn't have passed without it. There wasn't a WRE topic on the test that EET had not covered.
EET gives you the option to do live online or on-demand. The live classes are all-day Saturdays and there are additional videos during the week to review problems. I personally did the on-demand option (at a lesser cost IIRC) because of my work/family schedule. Along with the videos, EET provides a ton of practice problems. They're quality problems - very much like the ones you'll see on the test. The key to success is to do ALL of the problems. So, yes, there's definitely additional time needed on top of watching the videos. You'll need to devote the same if not more time to doing practice problems. For the WRE, I didn't need to spend time reviewing other materials beyond what the EET class provided (this may differ for different depth modules depending on what the instructor advises).
