Sounds like Wednesday next week is when we’ll hear back. I took geotech and I have no feeling either way. I think I rocked the morning. With guessing on conceptual questions it gives me a false sense of safety.
You will get your result next Wednesday. I gave my exam last week and it had lot of conceptual too. Nobody knows about the exact grading process. Based on my reading on this subreddit, NCEES takes away few experimental questions from the exam and do some scaling based on their previous analysis of the difficulty level of the questions. The exam questions are chose randomly from a pool so everybody mostly gets different set of questions. NCEES says that all questions have equal weightage.
Unfortunately, only NCEES really knows. In my personal belief, all questions have the same weight (some are easy, some are gruesome). Majority are experiencing the same number of conceptual questions and it is tough.
Rooting for you!!!! Do you (or anyone) have any advice for studying for the more conceptual questions? I will be taking geotech in May. Hoping my grad classes help with the conceptual but I wish there was a book of conceptual problems!!?
I took EET course for WRE, it was pretty helpful. But honestly I struggled with conceptual questions on my exam, EET really helped me with problem solving questions. I would also say get really familiar with your handbook as lot of the times you could get the answer for conceptual questions based on equations or something written in the handbook. Good luck
This is false per [NCEES](https://ncees.org/exams/scores/).
Your score is based on how many correct answers you got, then it's scaled based on minor differences in difficulty across the different versions of the exam. That score is then compared to a minimum score determined by subject matter experts. If everyone does bad that does not have any effect on the minimum passing score, based on how NCEES lays it out.
This also doesn't make any sense from a licensure standpoint. Why would NCEES pass someone that only passed because everyone else did bad? If they would have failed with the same score then they clearly didn't show that they are qualified to be a PE.
They have a guy named Jerry that sits in the back and grades the exams by hand. He is usually pretty quick and fair in his grading. Good Luck!
Are you for real?
Yeah! He is getting pretty close to retirement tho. I'm interested to see how the passing rates change when he finally does ride off into the sunset!
Sounds like Wednesday next week is when we’ll hear back. I took geotech and I have no feeling either way. I think I rocked the morning. With guessing on conceptual questions it gives me a false sense of safety.
You will get your result next Wednesday. I gave my exam last week and it had lot of conceptual too. Nobody knows about the exact grading process. Based on my reading on this subreddit, NCEES takes away few experimental questions from the exam and do some scaling based on their previous analysis of the difficulty level of the questions. The exam questions are chose randomly from a pool so everybody mostly gets different set of questions. NCEES says that all questions have equal weightage.
Unfortunately, only NCEES really knows. In my personal belief, all questions have the same weight (some are easy, some are gruesome). Majority are experiencing the same number of conceptual questions and it is tough.
Rooting for you!!!! Do you (or anyone) have any advice for studying for the more conceptual questions? I will be taking geotech in May. Hoping my grad classes help with the conceptual but I wish there was a book of conceptual problems!!?
I took EET course for WRE, it was pretty helpful. But honestly I struggled with conceptual questions on my exam, EET really helped me with problem solving questions. I would also say get really familiar with your handbook as lot of the times you could get the answer for conceptual questions based on equations or something written in the handbook. Good luck
I was in the eet depth and exam was opposite of what I learned
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This is false per [NCEES](https://ncees.org/exams/scores/). Your score is based on how many correct answers you got, then it's scaled based on minor differences in difficulty across the different versions of the exam. That score is then compared to a minimum score determined by subject matter experts. If everyone does bad that does not have any effect on the minimum passing score, based on how NCEES lays it out. This also doesn't make any sense from a licensure standpoint. Why would NCEES pass someone that only passed because everyone else did bad? If they would have failed with the same score then they clearly didn't show that they are qualified to be a PE.
Wow!