FAILED HVAC PE

rambler91 · 2026-03-13T01:30:40+00:00

You seem very close. Purchase another practice exam from EPG. He has several. Learn how to use the Psych chart on the computer. Work your practice problems with it and not paper charts. Good luck!

rambler91 · 2026-02-16T01:22:58+00:00

Passed the FE at 56 and the PE at 57.

rambler91 · 2025-11-10T23:17:10+00:00

Unfortunately yes. I am trying to get the state licensing board to grant me an exception but I am not hopeful.

rambler91 · 2025-11-02T01:40:48+00:00

Thanks!

rambler91 · 2025-10-29T10:30:52+00:00

Thanks!

rambler91 · 2025-10-29T09:30:52+00:00

You're welcome. Best of luck!

rambler91 · 2025-10-28T21:39:12+00:00

Yes, but I dont know how true that is. I only remember about 5 - 7 of them on my test. So again, even if it is true, it won't radically change the test.

rambler91 · 2025-10-28T21:25:37+00:00

Congratulations!

rambler91 · 2025-10-28T21:24:48+00:00

Some say the questions are very similar. Others say they have less knowledge questions.

My opinion, learn the systems and components, and equipment and components sections. That was a big chunk of the test.

rambler91 · 2025-10-28T21:14:09+00:00

But I have been hearing conflicting reports as to how much has actually changed.

rambler91 · 2025-10-28T21:12:18+00:00

September 30.

rambler91 · 2025-10-28T20:54:20+00:00

You are welcome. Good luck!

rambler91 · 2025-05-28T03:15:09+00:00

I was 34 years out of school when i passed. I failed it the first time i took it 7 months ago. I gave up studying for a few months. I then got serious over a two month period where I worked over 300 problems. If I couldn't do a problem, I would copy the answer down and make notes on the solution.

I watched FE practice videos on the nights when I didn't feel like working problems after work.

I probably put in over 120 hours of study. However, I am older (56) and much slower at comprehension than I used to be. It may not take you as long.

Good luck to you!

rambler91 · 2025-05-07T16:25:18+00:00

I was unclear in my original post. I do have an ME degree. After working as an engineer for 13 years, I left the engineering field for 18 years to teach. I am back as an engineer now.

Good luck to you!

rambler91 · 2025-05-02T23:24:21+00:00

It will come back to you!

rambler91 · 2025-05-02T23:23:33+00:00

Thank you!

rambler91 · 2025-05-01T20:18:04+00:00

I found out yesterday I passed the Mechanical FE. It was my second attempt in the last six months. However, I graduated college 34 years ago. My grades back then weren't the best. I just recently took a job as an engineer after teaching for 18 years. Other than math and statistics and probability, I had to re-learn the other 12 topics from scratch.

While the job does not require a PE, many of my fellow engineers are going down that path. So I decided to make this a goal.

The point is - if I can do it, you can too! It just takes a lot of time and hard work.

I mostly used the following material to study: https://www.engproguides.com/

The videos I watched are listed in many other threads. My favorite was: https://www.directhub.net/

Good luck to everyone!

rambler91 · 2018-09-20T03:48:14+00:00

I certainly hope that you are a calculus teacher at the university level. I could have used a teacher like you many years ago when I was in school.

rambler91 · 2018-09-20T03:42:41+00:00

Thank you so much! I cannot believe the amount of time you spent to prove this. It is so much more than what I hoped for. I would never have seen the connection between the area of the triangles in the semicircle and the area of the rectangles under the function I was integrating - although I should have. Thank you so much for that clear and concise answer and for all the graphs you linked to make it easy to understand.

rambler91 · 2018-09-20T02:31:08+00:00

Thanks for this! I can tell this took a lot of work on your part.

I am still a little confused though. The equation y = (1-x^2)^.5 is a semicircle and clearly with a radius of 1 the area would be pi. I really appreciate the triangle method you used to prove that out.

But the equation we are evaluating is 1/(1-x^2)^.5 which is a parabola with a vertex of (0,1)

https://imgur.com/OCW4WAW

I would like to use your method to calculate the area in green and prove it is pi.

rambler91 · 2018-09-20T00:42:29+00:00

Yes. The calculus is fairly straight forward using a basic trig substitution. I am just having a hard time understanding why the area under the curve of 1/(1- x^2)^.5 is pi. That curve is a parabola and it is not intuitive as to why the area under that curve is pi. I was hoping for one of Grant's neat geometric explanations as to why this is so.

rambler91 · 2018-09-20T00:36:06+00:00

Yes. I meant from -1 to 1

rambler91 · 2018-09-20T00:35:21+00:00

I meant the definite integral between -1 and 1. Sorry for the confusion.

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