First time I did pretty well in the morning, but used up all the time. Didn't feel as well as I would have liked.
Afternoon, first time, I had only had the 10th CERM for 1 day (didn't know where things were), brought too many books that I didn't know where things were in them (good books, but I needed to know where to look...lack of preparation on my part). Felt that the afternoon was more difficult and had real bad time management (had to literally guess on 5 problems and, when looking at two of them that I had to guess on, I felt horrible since I knew I could do those problems but ran out of time). Had to use the restroom twice in the afternoon (don't eat much of anything that will send you to the restroom...basically wasted time).
I thought I might have passed it with some help from the guesses, but only got around 47 out of 80, with most of the missed in the afternoon (27 correct in morning and only 20 in afternoon). Strangely enough, I got all the WR right in the morning, but did horrible in the afternoon on the three subcategories of WR (hydraulics, hydrology and WT) and did fine on enviro (my weakest) and geo.
Boils down to a lack of preparation, pride, ego, etc.
I was very much more prepared in Oct. Had six months to familiarize myself with the CERM and to study all the resources. Made outline type links to where information was so I wouldn't waste time. Had props for my books. Only brought the CERM, all six min sols, essential equations for the HP 33s, two HP33s calculators, another TI calculator, small snacks, etc.
Got enough sleep the night before the exam (although the wife argued with me the night before the exam
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Now have a decent library of resources and a plethora of links to informative sites on the web.
Hope this helps.
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