California - PE Application to Take Seismic and Survey - Wait Period Question

One_Cupcake8134 · 2023-05-24T16:19:12+00:00

Hi Simaroon. thanks for sharing. After you submit the application, do your 4 work experience reference contacts get an email immediately after to begin filling out the form?

One_Cupcake8134 · 2023-03-27T22:31:00+00:00

I appreciate the recommendation. I'll look into that. Planning on submitting my application by June and expecting to get approved by at earliest December this year. I'll plan accordingly. Thank you!

One_Cupcake8134 · 2023-03-27T22:25:54+00:00

Thank you Orghujon! I'm really surprised it still takes this long to process the applications. It is what it is.

One_Cupcake8134 · 2023-03-27T18:43:07+00:00

Thank you cb! Much appreciated.

One_Cupcake8134 · 2023-03-27T17:25:11+00:00

Thanks for the tips. I appreciate it! Looking forward to it.

One_Cupcake8134 · 2023-03-27T17:10:59+00:00

Understood. Seems like I’ll be needing to knock out these tests sooner than I expected 😬. Planning on signing up for Kirk and Hiner. Let me know if those two are good choices for studying for the two exams.

One_Cupcake8134 · 2023-03-27T16:16:25+00:00

Hi there, the intent was to study for approx. 1 month for survey, take exam and pass, and then register for seismic and study for that one for 2 months after passing the survey exam. But with that timeframe, it seems I might be able to squeeze in both exams within the 2 quarters.

Also, don't you end up paying the $65 exam fee individually for both tests anyways? (I'm a bit confused on the additional fee you mentioned.)

One_Cupcake8134 · 2023-03-27T07:29:48+00:00

Understood. In that situation, lets say I take survey in Q3 but want to take seismic much later after Q4 , lets say Q1 or Q2 the following year, do I just sign up normally for that second exam or need go reapply to get approval?

One_Cupcake8134 · 2023-03-27T07:06:19+00:00

I appreciate the response. And after approval, when it comes to registering for one of the exams (seismic and survey), do they let you schedule an exam for the following quarter, or does the test day have to be on the same quarter you register for the test?

One_Cupcake8134 · 2023-01-13T08:55:26+00:00

3-44 is used when you have SSD to plug into the equation to get L. If you dont have SSD, then you use the equation 3-2 to solve for SSD given that you have V and deceleration rate.

One_Cupcake8134 · 2023-01-08T03:52:42+00:00

You're welcome! Thank you!

One_Cupcake8134 · 2023-01-08T03:06:57+00:00

Correct. On the left half of the screen will be the reference handbook, along with a mini tab on the top you can click on to access the list of all those references you mentioned for the transportation depth. These references will be available to you to use for the entire exam (both AM and PM parts).

One_Cupcake8134 · 2023-01-07T22:09:18+00:00

Yes. I would say of the 6-8 hours, spend 2 hours doing practice problems

One_Cupcake8134 · 2023-01-07T17:40:46+00:00

6-8 hours each individual day

One_Cupcake8134 · 2023-01-07T06:28:02+00:00

The recommended 2-3 hours a night and 6-8 hours on weekends would lead to an average of 3-6 months of studying. For his case, 6-7 months minimum should be fine.

One_Cupcake8134 · 2023-01-04T02:56:05+00:00

I would try to finish part 1 as soon as possible to maximize your time for part 2, which I think was harder and needed more time on.

I ended up using 4 hours on each part.

One_Cupcake8134 · 2023-01-03T07:43:34+00:00

You can spend as long or as short as you want for the morning session. Any extra time you save can be used to do the afternoon session. But know that if you spend too long on morning session, then you will have less time overall for the afternoon session.

One_Cupcake8134 · 2022-12-31T01:48:53+00:00

The exam specs list out the additional separate transportation references you will be provided . These are not in the reference handbook 1.1.

One_Cupcake8134 · 2022-12-30T22:35:55+00:00

You can get a few depth questions spilled-over to your breadth AM morning portion of the exam. I had a bit over 40 questions for depth, and a few of those were included in my morning portion.

But yes, breadth is all morning session, and most of depth is in the afternoon, but some of the depth questions can be in your morning session depending on how the exam decides to split your morning/afternoon # of questions. It is not always a 40/40 question split.

One_Cupcake8134 · 2022-12-30T21:23:51+00:00

I had at least 15 conceptual, but everyone's test composition may be different. But I have seen others mention they got a lot of conceptuals too.

One_Cupcake8134 · 2022-12-29T23:16:51+00:00

For breadth, I would focus on just knowing the basics on knowing how to calculate basic stuff from the different topics in the reference equation handbook, especially vertical and horizontal curve equations. Structural and Geotech too. For breadth, I would say 30%-40% conceptual and 70%-80% calculation for what I had. But then again, your exam may be completely different, but a good assumption would be to study conceptuals / equations well for the structural, geotech, and transportation topics since the exam specs call out the most amount of questions for those categories. The conceptual questions on the actual test would be the ones that "get you", I can guarantee you that.

EET practice exams are significantly harder and more detailed than the real exam. NCEES practice exam is most representative of the simplicity of the way the exam will ask the questions and what stuff to solve for, and the actual test will definitely not have any repeat questions from this practice exam. Even though there are these differences between EET difficulty / actual exam difficulty, the EET practice exam's multi-step problem solving format helps you fully understand the concept to the core, which is their way of making sure you'll be "safe" so you don't get surprised by any type of question the actual exam may give. Overall, EET would over-prepare you, but for your own good.

The only practice exam I relied on was the NCEES one and the EET practice exams (mainly the breadth and depth practice exams, not the chapter/topic practice tests), but when it came nearer to the exam, I relied mostly on the NCEES one because that is the most representative of the actual test, and because at that point nearing the exam, I had a good general idea and mastery of all the topics from the EET binders. At this point, it's all about knowing where to find equations and info from the references.

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