Taking FE & PE? Recommended??

[alban1an]

Hello everyone! I just got approved by the NYSPE board to sit for the FE & PE exams. The filing period is open for October, and I have been trying to read the FE review book slowly (just got married and my wife is already expecting a baby, ironically due in October). My question is if it is worth signing up for both and take them at the same time? I had heard that the PE is kind of like the PM session of the FE. I wonder how true that is, because if that is the case, if I am going to take PM style questions in the afternoon session of the FE, why not sit for the PE?

The only concern is that based on reading a thread of someone who had failed the PE 3 times (in FL), the PE board may request you take additional continuing education classes, I am afraid of taking the PE without really studying for it. I do not know if NY does that, frankly I do not care for the money spent on retaking the PE test; if anything I would like to get a feel for the test, but I am afraid of failing and looking bad in front of the board, or if they may rescind the approval until you show more experience or education or both to sit for it again?

Any advice?

 

[jco0518]

Hello everyone! I just got approved by the NYSPE board to sit for the FE & PE exams. The filing period is open for October, and I have been trying to read the FE review book slowly (just got married and my wife is already expecting a baby, ironically due in October). My question is if it is worth signing up for both and take them at the same time? I had heard that the PE is kind of like the PM session of the FE. I wonder how true that is, because if that is the case, if I am going to take PM style questions in the afternoon session of the FE, why not sit for the PE? The only concern is that based on reading a thread of someone who had failed the PE 3 times (in FL), the PE board may request you take additional continuing education classes, I am afraid of taking the PE without really studying for it. I do not know if NY does that, frankly I do not care for the money spent on retaking the PE test; if anything I would like to get a feel for the test, but I am afraid of failing and looking bad in front of the board, or if they may rescind the approval until you show more experience or education or both to sit for it again?

Any advice?

I think you should study and get the FE out of the way and hit the PE in the next year. PE test is friday, so if you take the PE on friday just to get the feel for it, you would be mentally tired to pass FE on saturday.