Is Lindeburg's Practice Problems Manual allowed in the NY CE PE Exam 3

[wkenchen]

Hi,

I will be taking the April New York Civil Engineering PE exam. Do they allow the "Practice Problems for the Civil Engineering" Manual into the exam site?

Thank you.

 

[ACtrafficengr]

I had mine with me and nobody said anything.

Good luck!

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[wkenchen]

I have been waiting for someone to comment on this question. Finally, I got the answer. Thanks a lot.

 

[HgTX]

Officially, solved problem books are not allowed in the exams in at least TX and NV.

Unofficially, no one may care.

When I took the exam (TX, but the rules are supposed to be the same nationally), a lot of people had solutions books with them, and no one said anything. I elected not to take the risk.

I strongly suggest you call your state board to make sure.

Hg

 

[wkenchen]

Thank you. I will call the state board. But, if someone has a definite answer. Please help. I put so many notes in the solution manual. I can't afford to do without it in the exam.

 

[HgTX]

Nothing stops you from writing out notes in ink and putting them in a looseleaf binder to bring to the exam.

Hg

 

[cvg]

HGTX is absolutely correct, in fact I brought all my own solved practice problems as well as commonly used equations in a 3-ring binder and I did refer to it during the test.

 

[LHA]

I disagree w/ HgTX's claim that "...the rules are supposed to be the same nationally"

In PA, solved problems are specifically OK, any reference is. All just have to be bound (3-ring is OK), no loose pieces of paper.

I took all of my solved problems, although I didn't use them very much at all. By the time you take the test, you pretty much know what you know AND don't know what you don't. There is no time to study a solved problem someone else did and learn how to use the algorithms and concepts to solve the one on your exam. If it is a problem you did, then you already know how to do it!

wketchen: As far as your notes in the margins, now that is a good move. Those notes, formulae, tables of common (and not so common) constants are what you will use for over 80% of the exam. That is really what they are testing for anyway; the PE exam is not a test on whether you can regurgitate previous solutions, and the writers do a very good job of putting real-world twists in the problems so that examinees can't often do that. The exam will test whether you can combine book-level knowledge with what you have learned as an EIT. If you have a good base of both, you will pass. Good luck.

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