SE Exam Oct 2019 Result

[MR_E30]

First of all, MR_E30, that is amazing with your background to be wanting to go this far. Now, for the PE, it may still be a struggle as you do not have the Civil background from your undergrad time. I just say that, because although the PE Civil: Structural Depth is indeed very simple in my opinion, fellow coworkers that have failed only failed due to the morning, as you will need to study some water resources and transportation stuff. Honestly, I do not know how that would look like for you since you were not exposed to any of those classes back in undergrad. However, I think the CERM is concise enough to cover those topics. When I took it it was just a matter of  tabbing those sections. I mean the morning is basically 70% Structural, Geotech and Construction and for a Structural Engineer that is something we deal with it in a daily basis especially if you do a lot of foundation design, so I think the morning favors Civil Structurals.

Anyways, just wanted to give you the heads up, I am sure you know all this. I wish you the best, and please, keep going and would love to see you posting here on EB the day you pass the SE Exams! Best of luck!

Thanks mate!

I am beginning the process of gathering info surrounding the PE Civil: Structural Depth exam from various parts of EB and am coming up with a game plan. Glad to hear about the Geotech (work directly with them frequently) and Construction (actually spend my weekends building house related stuff with my hands and one of my mentors is a GC).

I appreciate the heads up and will make sure I spend quality time on the breadth section of the exam!

 

[Rebel Engineer]

IL is killing me with the wait.

I agree, still waiting on Florida myself...

 

[Dzsan]

I can't believe some states haven't received their results yet... I would riot! (JOKE)

 

[Reverse Polish]

Hi all,  

Been lurking for about the past year.  Also waiting on Illinois/CTS.  Thought I would  join this merry anxiety/depression support group.

Felt reasonably confident for seven weeks.  Stomach dropped into a pit on Monday, and been living on the edge of my dupa since.  Still having nightmares about two PM problems in particular. 

In the meantime, I'm trying to convince myself there's no way I passed, so as to avoid letdown (in the case of any false sense of security I may have enjoyed).  Good thing I've had plenty of humbling experiences in my career to prepare me for this psychological beatdown.  

Crossing my fingers.   

 

[Gator314]

I agree, still waiting on Florida myself...

Rebel, did you get your results? Florida's just came through on my end.

 

[Dzsan]

https://ncees.org/engineering/pe-structural/

They just updated the overall percentages for OCT pass rates.

Outliers:

Repeat takers on Vertical buildings... 

Repeat takes on Lateral bridges!

 

[thedaywa1ker]

Sweet baby jesus more than 80% of repeat vertical buildings failed?? Makes me glad that I skipped a cycle before retaking.  Hopefully they make some adjustments for April, if they even care.

 

[Reverse Polish]

https://ncees.org/engineering/pe-structural/View attachment 15587

This is nausea-inducing.  The pass rates support my suspicion that the Practice Exam was absolutely useless in preparing for the PM.

Abandon hope, (most of) ye who enter....

 

[Rebel Engineer]

Rebel, did you get your results? Florida's just came through on my end.

Yep, they came through alright. I am with the majority, and failed both parts. I'll take it again next year. Though this time, one at a time.

 

[jmm7200]

Wow....I think NCEES finally realized that the lateral bridges has been horrible for so long that they drastically increased the passing cut score!   Bridge people get screwed with this exam, as 75% of the AM is building focused.

 

[Duke]

Illinois/CTS is really beginning to frusturate me. How long does it take to update their own files with Pass/Unacceptable? Do any other IL ppl out there understand the relationship between the SE board and CTS and/or the reasons for the delayed release?

 

[jmm7200]

@Duke  I used to understand that whole thing, which is part of the reason why I stopped taking the test in that dump hotel in Hillside and drove up to Milwaukee.  Wisconsin released their results on Tuesday morning.

 

[TowersNBridges]

IL people.  I logged into my CTS account and it shows your pass/fail status! 

 

[Baggu]

Thank you @TowersNBridges Just checked my CTS account.

Failed them both. Time to screw structural engineering and move to project management

 

[Reverse Polish]

IL people.  I logged into my CTS account and it shows your pass/fail status! 

Somewhat surprisingly passed both exams.  What a relief.  

Huge thanks to everyone who has been posting on this forum.  Your insights and experiences helped me establish a course of successful study.  Congratulations to those of you who still persist--you are making yourselves better engineers, which we desperately need.  I recall a quote from a sub-2:30 marathoner who stated that his heroes are not the people who finish first, but the people who are still on the course after 4 hours and persevering.  Chin up, and keep working diligently both in the office and in your studies.  You owe it to yourself and your profession!  Remember--if it were easy, everyone would be doing it. 

 

[Putz63304]

I did not pass the one exam I re-took, which sucked, but then I noticed yesterday that the pass rate for that exam was 18% among repeat takers!!!

Can someone explain to me what happened - 18% strikes me as a stupidly low pass rate, and for the amount of time, effort, and money that this exam calls for it seems more than a little unfair - it feels like I basically broke myself mentally and emotionally so I could take an un-beatable test...

 

[David Connor SE]

I did not pass the one exam I re-took, which sucked, but then I noticed yesterday that the pass rate for that exam was 18% among repeat takers!!!

Can someone explain to me what happened - 18% strikes me as a stupidly low pass rate, and for the amount of time, effort, and money that this exam calls for it seems more than a little unfair - it feels like I basically broke myself mentally and emotionally so I could take an un-beatable test...

Yeah, the pass rate for repeat takers tends to hover around 25%.  Some have been higher, some lower.  The low pass rates is basically the crux of why this forum exists.  To try to help everyone to pass this exam.  But yes, the overall pass rate seems to be in the 30-40% range.  It's not an un-beatable exam, but it is the most difficult of all the engineering licensure exams. 

 

[Saluki21]

SE-wishes......Could you help me out with studying for the morning of the Lateral exam? I'm a bridge guy and the morning is just killing me and it appears that you have it locked down! I would really appreciate it if you would be willing to share your knowledge!

 

[SoCalPE]

Hello Everyone,

My first post here, so I chatted with NCEES and they said that there is no change in exam specs (codes). She said April 2020 will be per the same specs (codes) as October 2019?

Has anyone else asked this question? Do they typically wait a cycle before enforcing the latest codes in the exams?

On a side note, since most people shared their results, Here is mine (First attempt at both lateral/gravity)

Gravity - Acceptable

Lateral: AM - 28/40, PM - U, A, A, IR. 

I am intending to take lateral in April again.

 

[ChaosMuppetPE]

Hello Everyone,

My first post here, so I chatted with NCEES and they said that there is no change in exam specs (codes). She said April 2020 will be per the same specs (codes) as October 2019?

Has anyone else asked this question? Do they typically wait a cycle before enforcing the latest codes in the exams?

On a side note, since most people shared their results, Here is mine (First attempt at both lateral/gravity)

Gravity - Acceptable

Lateral: AM - 28/40, PM - U, A, A, IR. 

I am intending to take lateral in April again.

In my experience, they typically run one full code cycle behind.