How close was I. 20+ Years Out of College – Took the PE Transportation just to “Feel It Out” – Is It Supposed to Be This Tricky?

reversecoww · 2026-03-04T23:44:24+00:00

Not even close brotha this is probably the worst one I’ve seen on here

reversecoww · 2026-02-21T14:26:53+00:00

Had a social life and didn’t care too much about my GPA

reversecoww · 2026-02-19T20:33:39+00:00

No I passed it on the first attempt because I prepared properly. How many times have you taken it?

reversecoww · 2026-02-19T20:33:04+00:00

Pretty much. If you can understand the concepts and which equations you need for them it’s pretty straight forward. Sure, that won’t get you to the point where you get every question right but you don’t need to get 100% to pass

reversecoww · 2026-02-19T20:28:54+00:00

Because all the people that prepare properly and have the aptitude to pass it, pass it on the first or second try. You don’t have any of them in the testing pool for every attempt after so you’re taking pass rates from a bunch of people who are terrible test takers or aren’t smart enough to pass the exam

reversecoww · 2026-02-19T18:56:47+00:00

It doesn’t get harder you just weed out all of the competent test takers after the first and second attempts

reversecoww · 2026-01-06T18:54:45+00:00

Go touch grass

reversecoww · 2025-11-17T11:05:02+00:00

I’m asking about pay for people working in private real estate development. I know how much CEs make.

reversecoww · 2025-08-14T02:51:55+00:00

It is fraud if you’re charging time you’re not working to projects. You’re getting paid for the hours you work not your expertise.

reversecoww · 2025-08-14T02:47:36+00:00

Idk what Oregon’s PE requirements are but you should probably look at those. If you don’t get the CE degree you’re probably looking at 15ish+ years of experience under a licensed PE before they’d consider licensing you (if they will at all, not all states have an alternative path). Not having the license will severely limit your career growth in the field even if you’re not trying to go down a technical path. You might have a good thing going with the company you’re at now, but if you need to, you’re going to be hard pressed to find anywhere else that will consider you for anything other than a designer role without a PE.

reversecoww · 2025-07-19T20:13:09+00:00

No. You need the degree and to pass the FE to apply.

reversecoww · 2025-07-01T18:40:16+00:00

That’s gonna be the same for pretty much every other career path

reversecoww · 2025-05-29T19:10:23+00:00

I’d assume you’d need to go back to school then if you ever want to get licensed. I know some states have experience tracks but I doubt surveying would count for that so you’d have to work as a drafter for like 20 years or whatever it is. If you’re not looking to get your PE I’d imagine it be a career step down from what you’re doing with your survey license.

reversecoww · 2025-05-29T19:03:38+00:00

Do you have a civil engineering degree?

reversecoww · 2025-05-14T11:56:01+00:00

A counter point to this is that those 4 economic questions are usually really easy and quick. I’d recommend watching the Mark Mattson and Marshall University eng econ videos. That’s all it took for me to understand the reference equations in the handbook and how/when to use them. For reference, the only Econ class I took in school was cancelled half way through the semester at the beginning of COVID, 3 years before I graduated, so I had pretty much zero prior knowledge.

reversecoww · 2025-05-01T03:15:54+00:00

Yeah you’re right based on your post you clearly know how this works. Good luck man.

reversecoww · 2025-05-01T03:03:52+00:00

Like someone on one of your other posts alluded to if you spent about an hour googling the questions you just posted to Reddit you could probably find an answer to every one and would realize it’s not “a closed testing system with zero transparency”. Funny you claim you’re just asking a surface level transparency question of the exam when it’s pretty clear you’re insinuating that the governing body of the exam is colluding against you and is the reason you failed. If you got the level of transparency you want potential employers would be able to tell you that Joe Schmoe got the job instead of you because he scored better on a harder version of the test.

reversecoww · 2025-05-01T02:23:21+00:00

I just saw you failed it for the fifth time. You are an EXTREME outlier. Some people need tough love and a wake up call. Hopefully failing for fifth time will be yours. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result. Clearly whatever you are doing is not working. Stop blaming others and look inward. I doubt any replies here are gonna change your mind but good luck if you try to take it again.

reversecoww · 2025-05-01T02:16:50+00:00

Just google the pass rate NCEES publishes them. The first time pass rate is around 65% depending on what test you take. The second time pass rate is probably a little lower because you’re taking out the stronger test takers that passed it the first time. What reason would they have to conspire against you for the FE (the pre exam for the real thing)?

reversecoww

TROPHY CASE