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Anybody out there take the Stuctural PM? Any advice for this April's test - words of wisdom, do's, don'ts, etc. - would be appreciated. Thanks! bump
That is correct. Remember the average time is 6 minutes per problem. It is almost impossible to work in a completeI get the feeling they place a lot of emphasis on finding the right loads. Am I right ?
I design falsework among other things. So I know how to calc stresses etc. But I bet it will be difficult for me to figure out the correct loads for applications other than bridges.If you design with timber daily, it will be a breeze! I have only designed a few wood decks for family using timber so the questions on the PE were a little difficult for me.
Chris, my best advice is to focus on the 6-minute solutions with the CERM/SERM as your references. They will be a hair more difficult, but just keep pounding away at it. You might not get it in 6-minutes, but if you do, then you'll ace the exam - I promise you that!I am preparing for the civil pe (structural pm) and would like to know how the actual test questions in the pm compare to those found in the CERM practice problems book. They are all pretty straight forward to me and I was wondering if maybe I am underestimating the difficulty in concentrating on the CERM. I have been studying roughly 10-15 hours a week for the past 5 weeks. About 75% of that time has been working through the text in the CERM and the corresponding questions in the practice problem book.
Am I on the right track in getting ready for this bad boy or should I take a look at some more difficult problems? I cracked the 6 minute solution book and those problems were a touch more difficult and on alot of them I had trouble finishing in 6 minutes even when I worked through them once before.
Any advice is surely welcome and appreciated...
That is exactly how I feel!!!There is much less emphasis on crunching numbers, and much more emphasis on knowing your way around a certain code, and understanding structural engineering theory.
If CERM is useless, is SERM helpful for Structural PM?The CERM has almost nothing to do with the questions on the structural pm. It does not cover most of the questions on the pm exam. If you want to pass the structural pm, you have to work in the field for several years, and to be REAL familiar with ALL the references published on the NCEES website.It has a lot of questions on wood, steel, concrete. Very specific questions, the kind that if you only learned in school, and didn’t work with that after, you have no chance of passing.
Is there a site where you can get support for the SERM if you don't understand the material or solutions?I don't think I used the SERM once during the pm section, but I also had the 3rd edition, rather than the fourth. The 4th may be of some use to you. The problems go into much more depth than the exam questions. I think if you can get through the problems in the 4th, you'll be fine.
I'm going to be taking the structural afternoon exam in October and I was wondering how everyone studied for this exam? I've currently been working whatever problems I can get my hands on, but what else should I be doing? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
I'm definitely going to be taking the structural afternoon, so thanks for the info. I've been working through the 6-minute solutions and the NCEES sample exam. Are you refering to the Practice Problems from Lindeburg? If so, I'm working through it as well. I'm just trying to see what the best plan of action is. So you recommend studying the reference materials and then working problems? Thanks for the help!Well, you can do Static problems from Lindeburg and it will help maximize your percentage. However, the key is knowing your reference materials really well. Masonry manual, ACIs, AISC 13th, ACSE, and all the others that are mentioned by NCEES. I remembered, they had a lot of look up questions, all you needed to know is where to find it. Structural PM is by far the toughest. I know a lot of people who put there ego aside and took a different path. I didn't know better.
Eventhough I passed the exam the first time, I wouldn't take the structural depth again. Instead, I would have taken Geo'l. and not have that feeling of failure for 3 months until the results are mailed out. The morning AM is really easy and the afternoon is just the opposite. Good luck.
6 minute solutions, ncees practice problems, read through CERM, read through all the codes.I'm going to be taking the structural afternoon exam in October and I was wondering how everyone studied for this exam? I've currently been working whatever problems I can get my hands on, but what else should I be doing? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
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