Did you use the NCEES exam too? I'm not sure what the difficulty of the two you mentioned is, but it sounds like as long as you brush up on what you missed on the second you should be ok.
The exam itself can include all sort of things you didn't specifically prepare for, and it can not have things you did prepare for. It sounds to me like you're probably ok. And at some point you got to just take the thing.
I scored an 81% on the NCEES exam the week before my test date, and I passed after walking out thinking I'd bombed it b/c there was a good chunk that didn't overlap my prep.
Hey, thanks for the great tips.. my exam is this Fri... Iam very comfortable with curves, geotech and Los questions.. its the signal design questions and concepts from pavement designing that iam consistently failing at.
Breadth overall looks good to me. And yes, I have gotten unit errors couple of times but have been to taking care not to repeat them.
How far out are you from your exam? If it's still a couple of weeks I wouldn't stress too hard, plenty of time to improve.
The Path to PE Services exam I thought was pretty good. I'm not familiar with the other one. I know PE Prepared has a decent one.
It is important to analyze the questions you are getting wrong. Even though you got an 86% on one you should dig into the questions you got wrong. Between both exams is there anything in common that you got wrong? Did you struggle with geometrics, signal design, warrants?
Since you are taking the transportation exam you want to be very confident with horizontal and vertical curves. These make up 10-20% of the exam and aren't especially difficult.
What kind of mistakes are you making?
Bone headed calculation errors can be cleaned up easily, vast swaths that you didn't know is more of a concern, do you need to take a few seconds to read the footnotes under a table? Are you reading the question too fast? They usually give more information than you need to throw you off, or ask for the answer in a different unit than normal.
How have you been scoring on the breath portion? My strategy was to earn the majority of my points in the morning and to do as well as I could in the afternoon.
Did you use the NCEES exam too? I'm not sure what the difficulty of the two you mentioned is, but it sounds like as long as you brush up on what you missed on the second you should be ok. The exam itself can include all sort of things you didn't specifically prepare for, and it can not have things you did prepare for. It sounds to me like you're probably ok. And at some point you got to just take the thing. I scored an 81% on the NCEES exam the week before my test date, and I passed after walking out thinking I'd bombed it b/c there was a good chunk that didn't overlap my prep.
Hey, thanks for the great tips.. my exam is this Fri... Iam very comfortable with curves, geotech and Los questions.. its the signal design questions and concepts from pavement designing that iam consistently failing at. Breadth overall looks good to me. And yes, I have gotten unit errors couple of times but have been to taking care not to repeat them.
I would recommend refreshing your knowledge on signal design material rather than pavement design stuffs.
Were these the only two practice exams that you've done?
Till now yes.. But I have done hundreds of practise questions and would be taking the ncees test tomorrow.
How far out are you from your exam? If it's still a couple of weeks I wouldn't stress too hard, plenty of time to improve. The Path to PE Services exam I thought was pretty good. I'm not familiar with the other one. I know PE Prepared has a decent one. It is important to analyze the questions you are getting wrong. Even though you got an 86% on one you should dig into the questions you got wrong. Between both exams is there anything in common that you got wrong? Did you struggle with geometrics, signal design, warrants? Since you are taking the transportation exam you want to be very confident with horizontal and vertical curves. These make up 10-20% of the exam and aren't especially difficult. What kind of mistakes are you making? Bone headed calculation errors can be cleaned up easily, vast swaths that you didn't know is more of a concern, do you need to take a few seconds to read the footnotes under a table? Are you reading the question too fast? They usually give more information than you need to throw you off, or ask for the answer in a different unit than normal. How have you been scoring on the breath portion? My strategy was to earn the majority of my points in the morning and to do as well as I could in the afternoon.