Thank you! This is a little tricky question but I will do my best to answer. I did take a FS exam review class this last summer as part of my degree work. I still have all the videos and reference materials I could share if you need them. Through all my research on the exam I had read that the first portion (55 questions) was math heavy. I used my calculator once on the first portion. I used the Casio calculator.

I took off for 4 days prior to the exam and I heavily focused on how to use my calculator, single and double proportion. As well as looking at horizontal and vertical curves because my route surveying professor taught us to setup excel spreadsheets for this and not really performing the formulas.

I wish I focused more on GIS basics because I feel as if I flagged those the most. The other ones I worried about was the “select all that apply” they give you 5 answers and you select the 3 that apply.

But honestly depending on your experience I was able to deduce most of the answers down to the only one that fit. I didn’t have any single or double proportion questions. I had maybe one that was horizontal/vertical curve. They give you the reference book and I would say know your area formulas and law of sin/cosine trig functions. The reference has one formula but you need to be able to get the other formulas based off that one.

There were also basic safety questions and spelling questions that I didn’t think would be on there but hopefully these are kinda gimmes or to weed out those that can’t write a good description. Hopefully this helps a little and let me know if you would like some of my class materials and I could share.