The famous cut score

[Road Guy]

I am so old that I took the EIT with my own goddamn pencil

 

[NJmike PE]

Mine was black, and I passed so I assume that was one of the easier ones.

NJ passed with red = Easiest

I passed with Black = Easy

A few others passed with Blue = medium

This time was green. I don't remember seeing anyone here who passed with green...

easy or hard, it still says PE after my name. I'll take it

 

[snickerd3]

they are my favorite pencils of all time though. I took the FE in april of 2002 and still use the pencil, just keep refilling the 0.7.

 

[knight1fox3]

they are my favorite pencils of all time though. I took the FE in april of 2002 and still use the pencil, just keep refilling the 0.7.

+1

 

[NJmike PE]

I retired my PE exam pencil. It hangs in my office right next to the exam authorization from when I passed.

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

I didn't know I was supposed to keep my pencil.

I also didn't join eb.com until about a month after I took the exam.

 

[snickerd3]

I didn't join until a month after taking the pe exam too. test Oct 06 joined eb nov 06

 

[ptatohed]

I am so old that I took the EIT with my own goddamn pencil

they are my favorite pencils of all time though. I took the FE in april of 2002 and still use the pencil, just keep refilling the 0.7.

Yup, I took the FE in Oct '01 which was the last time an examinee would use his/her own pencil.

I used a Papermate 0.5mm brushed aluminum body with a black rubber (Goodyear?) grip and one of those little rubber accordion things over the eraser cap.

 

[Sapper PE LS]

I used my own pencil for the FE as well. Back in double ought.

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

"back in my day, we had to mine our own graphite and construct our own pencils to take the exam"

 

[DanHalen]

"back in my day, we had to mine our own graphite and construct our own pencils to take the exam"

LOL

"Back in my day I had to take the exam with Barney Rubble and Mr. Slate. Those granite chairs were very hard to sit in for 8 hours."

 

[Sapper PE LS]

Ha, back in my day, we had to grow papyrus, harvest it, press it, and dry it to make the paper. Then we had to squeeze berries to make ink. Then we had to write out the exam questions and have them reviewed by a disinterested third party. Then we could sit for the exam.

 

[WR/ENV_Instructor]

Has NCEES ever said that they "throw out" questions? Or is this one of those urban myths like the infamous "70" is a percentage and not just scale score?

Yes, it is stated in the video.

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

Has NCEES ever said that they "throw out" questions? Or is this one of those urban myths like the infamous "70" is a percentage and not just scale score?

Yes, it is stated in the video.

Watch it again. It only says the questions are reviewed by a panel who then adjust the score accordingly. Nothing about throwing out questions.

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

And just to keep it on everyone's mind:

 

[WR/ENV_Instructor]

I think my point has gotten lost b/c I did not do a good job explaining.

Let say 5 questions (out of 80) are thrown out before scoring the exam and an arbitrary (I am making this up) score of 53 correct (after problems removed) is chosen as the passing # for this exam.

If you had 54 questions correct (before the 5 problems were removed) but 2 of the 54 originally correct were thrown out, your correct score # is 52 = fail.

If you had 54 questions correct (before the 5 problems were removed) and 0 of the 54 originally correct were thrown out, your correct score # is 54 = pass.

That's what I meant by "if thrown out, hurts your chances of passing."

Bottom line as previously said, get as many correct as possible!

 

[Sapper PE LS]

I had a whole response written out, but then I remembered that I don't really care, so I just typed this in response instead.

 

[NJmike PE]

secret NCEES cut score selection method

 

[engineergurl]

I had a whole response written out, but then I remembered that I don't really care, so I just typed this in response instead.

QFT- you guys are funny

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

I had a whole response written out, but then I remembered that I don't really care, so I just typed this in response instead.

Says the one waiting on results...