April 2016 structural PE
April 2016 structural PE
(OP)
Anyone else just take the structural civil PE exam today? Hopefully its not just me who hot their ass kicked.
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Anyone else just take the structural civil PE exam today? Hopefully its not just me who hot their ass kicked.
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RE: April 2016 structural PE
RE: April 2016 structural PE
Get your results and then re-evaluate your study patterns, if needed.
If you haven't already, make a list of the questions you encountered during the exam, while they are still fresh.
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Professional and Structural Engineer (ME, NH, MA)
American Concrete Industries
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RE: April 2016 structural PE
Mike McCann, PE, SE (WA)
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But I definitely agree write down the problems if you remember them. I never thought of doing that when I took my exams, however, I'm pretty sure I could write down all the questions from my afternoon exams if asked they were in my nightmares for months!
RE: April 2016 structural PE
RE: April 2016 structural PE
Professional and Structural Engineer (ME, NH, MA)
American Concrete Industries
www.americanconcrete.com
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Remember that non-disclosure agreement you signed? NCEES can and will sue over this:
http://www.pobonline.com/articles/85713-ncees-obtains-copyright-infringement-judgment-against-examinee
Professional and Structural Engineer (ME, NH, MA)
American Concrete Industries
www.americanconcrete.com
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1. So they can reuse questions thus reducing the expense of creating the exam.
2. So they can limiting testers ability to study for it.
If it's the former then I suspect most people would pay more for the exam in order to be better prepared for it. If it's the latter then they are just serving as gate-keepers to the profession, a topic unto itself.
I can't imagine any teacher or professor trying to impose or enforce such a ruling. And more pointedly, how can any of the companies that offer test preparation courses/material do so? Surely what they offer is based off of *something*.
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2. NCEES publishes a sample exam that I'm fairly sure is just questions they have removed from the question pool.
I doubt they can have entirely new exam questions every 6 months. Doubly so as it likely would wreck havoc with their statistics.
I teach 1/2 of PPI's structural exam course and obviously bring my exam experiences into my personal knowledge during the course. That said, I take steps to ensure that all the exam related tips, the study items, and other topics are all based partially or entirely on the NCEES published exam syllabus, sample exam, and obvious test strategy. I can provide information that is not exam specific, such as how I recommend a question be answered on the exam. Obviously someone could infer some details of the exam from the information I give in the review course. To this end I specifically make a few recommendations that are good test advice but do not reflect my particular exam experience. This way anything inferred may not be correct.
It's worth mentioning that many people see nothing wrong with talking about the exam with someone else who took the exam with you. Nothing is revealed that wasn't already known, but this technically does violate the NDA.
Professional and Structural Engineer (ME, NH, MA)
American Concrete Industries
www.americanconcrete.com
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TehMightyEngineer, I'm not sure it's true that the NCEES has removed all the questions they use on the practice exam from the "question pool". I had a question in the afternoon that was nearly identical to a question in an NCEES published practice exam. By nearly exact I think the only thing different was the loading or something simple. I couldn't believe it.
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Professional and Structural Engineer (ME, NH, MA)
American Concrete Industries
www.americanconcrete.com
RE: April 2016 structural PE