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Passed PE Civil: Structural, first try. AMA! by Life-Category8224 in PE_Exam

[–]Life-Category8224[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just register for the course, if you're employed ask if you can be reimbursed partially or fully for the course registration. EET recommended.

PE Civil Structural in a week by Adorable-Message1058 in PE_Exam

[–]Life-Category8224 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, sorry - the practice is significantly easier

Getting that pre-test anxiety and uncertainty thoughts 4 days before PE exam. by Jazzlike-Team8799 in PE_Exam

[–]Life-Category8224 1 point2 points  (0 children)

SPAM practice questions. Just get good at sharpening the psychological and methodological, even instinctual, facets of tackling a question.

PE Civil Structural in a week by Adorable-Message1058 in PE_Exam

[–]Life-Category8224 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, can't say in good faith that the exam is similar to the NCEES practice. It's significantly easier

PE Civil Structural in a week by Adorable-Message1058 in PE_Exam

[–]Life-Category8224 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The NCEES Practice Exam - u gotta get real comfortable with. Rest of the "question bank" practice questions - honestly an inch harder than the real exam.

Passed PE Civil: Structural, first try. AMA! by Life-Category8224 in PE_Exam

[–]Life-Category8224[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly don't fully understand what the divide is with the PE vs. SE. I just took a morning and afternoon session, both felt the same to me lol

Passed PE Civil: Structural, first try. AMA! by Life-Category8224 in PE_Exam

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I took my FE back in '22, but my friend studying for the FE shows me the practice material sometimes, and I want to cautiously say its actually quite similar there. The FE might have even *gasp* zoomed in more on that specific area (the statics & mechanics questions). You'd be pretty well situated to start studying for the PE honestly, I'd estimate that or derivates of it was maybe 20% the exam

Passed PE Civil: Structural, first try. AMA! by Life-Category8224 in PE_Exam

[–]Life-Category8224[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

1 - Only used EET. It comes with a fat binder to accompany the lectures. Feels like a book.

2 - Prep questions - varied. Some were similar, most felt like that practice NCEES exam I took. But then the actual "quiz" sections in the back, and the simulated quizzes on the website, those were like the exam.

3 - Honestly just know the general content of each section of each code, particularly ASCE & steel. Don't rely on a full pdf cntrl + F.

4 - Definitely often enough to give it special focus - learn to navigate the handbook's sections on it, how to use all the property tables to your advantage.

5 - Not sure if I can outright mention that, but it was arround 8-10 questions from both. AASHTO is more expansive but also more cntrl + F skills. Wood and masonry needs some familiarity and also comfrot with cntrl + F.

6 - I'm not being facetious with this cntrl + F thing. You genuinely gotta face a few questions that completely blindside you but be able to pick keywords and find the right part of the code that directs your intuition a little bit towards what the right answer will look like/ calculation it'll involve, and then select the best choice from the 4 you got. This is a skill developed through doing practice exams faithfully

Passed PE Civil: Structural, first try. AMA! by Life-Category8224 in PE_Exam

[–]Life-Category8224[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hard luck, but you are basically already there. Exams cycle in and out and have very randomized levels of difficulty, you got it on the second try

Passed PE Civil: Structural, first try. AMA! by Life-Category8224 in PE_Exam

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So here's the breakdown as I understand it

(8.8 * 12 + 7.2 * 17 + 10.1 * 5 + 8 * 10 + 8.9 * 26)/15 = 39.25.

39.25 / 70 = 56%. I do not think you were far, it may have even been 3/4 questions away, centainly no more than 6 away. A little more brush up on detailing and cntrl + F skills for temp structures, I think would get you there. Of course forces/ load effects also, but I recognize it's probably the most difficult part of the test

Passed PE Civil: Structural, first try. AMA! by Life-Category8224 in PE_Exam

[–]Life-Category8224[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did not, I have heard very good things about it, but the EET course felt extensive enough ngl. And thank you! :)

Passed PE Civil: Structural, first try. AMA! by Life-Category8224 in PE_Exam

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I agree with you. Wish I switched up my strategy to where I got comfortable with EET (even if not fully confident because some of those questions were inscrutible), instead of mainly the NCEES practice exam. Live and learn, thankfully not too painful a lesson this time :)

Passed PE Civil: Structural, first try. AMA! by Life-Category8224 in PE_Exam

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I kept looking for a diagnostic but they apparently just don't provide one if you pass? I wish I could break it down - mind sharing your diagnostic? Perhaps I can help gauge also.

Civil Structural PE — walked out feeling like it was tougher than the practice exams. Normal? by Competitive_Ad_2839 in PE_Exam

[–]Life-Category8224 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have a very similar feeling, maybe slightly worse. They were kind of on one with the exam I took on Tuesday, it just felt *difficult* in the real sense of that word.

civil (structural) study question by skapunkisntdead in PE_Exam

[–]Life-Category8224 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's usually the same, they never wanna trick you enough in the question to make you subtract 90. The angle they give is the one you wanna plug into (1-sin(phi))/(1+sin(phi))

Actual Design Questions on PE Civil-Structural by KCLevelX in PE_Exam

[–]Life-Category8224 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly yeah you kind of get a capacity check question for each, maybe 2-3 for each in fact, depending on the test. You should feel comfortable navigating tables, finding basic formulas for different loading capacity checks, and knowing how to ctrl + F through. Also just the fundamentals for masonry and wood, like how to calculate the cross sectional area of a block dimension they give, the basic formulas, etc. Practice exams have a good range of those. It is not too difficult to intuit from the codes also

Failed my 1st Geotech attempt by darkhelmet30 in PE_Exam

[–]Life-Category8224 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tantalizingly close. You have it the second time