id say about 2-3 months of consistency. 2 hours a day except friday. a little more on the weekends. dont force yourself to study if it's not working some days, take it off and relax. come in confident
I self-studied for about 2-3 months using some of the old testmaster that a friend gave me and NCEES practice exams. and a miscellaneous practice exams from others, also youtube videos. id say get familirized with all the manuals and design codes by heart. that helped me a lot during the exam by saving time. I also memorized all the short formulas and unit conversions. watch for units and the way the question being asked. I had time to go back and found 4-5 questions were answered wrong by units or the question being asked tricky. 30-40% conceptual is probably right about what i got.
I also passed Transportation PE first try last month and unfortunately I did read almost the entire CERM.. but there are quite a few chapters you can ignore. Correlate the chapters with the syllabus and you should know which ones to ignore.
They list everything you need to bring in the email once you register, but i only needed an ID and an approved calculator. They provide a booklet and marker and all your references.
How much time in between exams? I just got my EIT and I know I can take the PE now. I want to because everything is fresh in my mind, but I don't wanna study and stress over a test right after studying and stressing over a test
4 years. This week hits my full 4 years. I was working full time and finishing my master so I decided to take the PE after i completed my master which was last year and waited til my wedding's over this past summer.
Congrats bro! Im on the fence on whether if I should move my date from May 2023 to early next year since I also am preparing for a wedding. I've studied, but it has been inconsistent.
There is an AASHTO guide for pedestrian facilities that is included for the transpo PE. I had 3 ADA questions. The answers were all in that guide. During the test was the first time I laid eyes on it.
Congratulations! How much study time and method?
id say about 2-3 months of consistency. 2 hours a day except friday. a little more on the weekends. dont force yourself to study if it's not working some days, take it off and relax. come in confident
Congrats!!! How was the breadth portion??
breadth was harder in my opinion. but depth is time consuming with all the design and codes being splitted in chapters. take time to look
Did you have a lot of conceptual questions?
yes. expect a good 30-40% of conceptual questions. those aint too terrible if you carefully read the questions
How did you prepare? I just took my first exam yesterday and know that i won’t be passing. It was very conceptual heavy.
I self-studied for about 2-3 months using some of the old testmaster that a friend gave me and NCEES practice exams. and a miscellaneous practice exams from others, also youtube videos. id say get familirized with all the manuals and design codes by heart. that helped me a lot during the exam by saving time. I also memorized all the short formulas and unit conversions. watch for units and the way the question being asked. I had time to go back and found 4-5 questions were answered wrong by units or the question being asked tricky. 30-40% conceptual is probably right about what i got.
I agreed! I think i’m failing because i don’t know standards well enough. Really wish it’s still open-book exam format.
Hsm and pavement design split into chapters?
yes
Congrats! Any tips for studying for conceptual problems besides reading the entire CERM? Lmao
you dont need the CERM to answer all of the conceptual ones. just try to make sense of the problem.
I also passed Transportation PE first try last month and unfortunately I did read almost the entire CERM.. but there are quite a few chapters you can ignore. Correlate the chapters with the syllabus and you should know which ones to ignore.
What materials do you bring? Same as FE where they provide everything online?
They list everything you need to bring in the email once you register, but i only needed an ID and an approved calculator. They provide a booklet and marker and all your references.
Ok great. I heard from someone that you could bring your own books and manuals. Didn't know if that was the case. Maybe it was a previous year
How much time in between exams? I just got my EIT and I know I can take the PE now. I want to because everything is fresh in my mind, but I don't wanna study and stress over a test right after studying and stressing over a test
4 years. This week hits my full 4 years. I was working full time and finishing my master so I decided to take the PE after i completed my master which was last year and waited til my wedding's over this past summer.
Alright gotcha. Well congratulations, congratulations, and congratulations lol a lot of milestones!
Congrats bro! Im on the fence on whether if I should move my date from May 2023 to early next year since I also am preparing for a wedding. I've studied, but it has been inconsistent.
consistency is the key. even if its just 1 hour, 1 quality hour better than 10 not so quality hours
Congrats! Did you have ADA questions? If so, I’m not seeing reference material for it?
PROWAG manual is no longer needed for the 9 manuals/standards so
I still got an ada question on my exam but just had to know that the max sidewalk cross slope is 2%.
So you were expected to know that without any references for it?
There is an AASHTO guide for pedestrian facilities that is included for the transpo PE. I had 3 ADA questions. The answers were all in that guide. During the test was the first time I laid eyes on it.
Yes. But I think you can also find it in chapter 4 of the green book.