I'm looking to start slowly preparing for the PE exam. I will be eligible to take it next year and don't want to start cramming down to the wire.
Are there any online prep courses that you may have heard of or recommend for the PE exam? Or, if you're in the state of Ohio, any in-person course information would also be appreciated.
Posted Jun 12, 2015, 7:35 PM UTC
I wonder about this, too. I want to take the Civil: Structural PE exam, but I can't find any program that specifically prepares students for the structural version. I don't really want to spend time relearning traffic queueing or Hazen-Williams if I don't have to.
I've looked at three sites: Testmasters, School of PE, and PPI2Pass. The one I'm leaning toward is School of PE because of their really high (90%) pass rate for first time takers.
On the other hand, when I prepared for the FE, I used PPI2Pass's exam question bank and it was great! They have a similar exam question bank for the PE exam, too. Maybe I'll do that.
I want to take the exam in April 2015.
I'm looking for an answer to this for MechE. Also, I'm wondering if you are supposed to take the test right after college or wait until you gave the 4 years working with an exisiting professional engineer, as is required to become a PE
I am MechE also. Based on the easier responses I've looked into School of PE and they have courses for all FE and PE exams.
My understanding from undergrad is that you would need to work 4 years in your field after passing the FE before you can apply to take the PE. Also, on the PE application it seems that a PE has to vouch for your 4years of experience. though I have read about some being able to take the exam before 4 years (unfortunately, I can't recall what it's called) but that law varies in different states. My best suggestion is to email your state board. Ohio was very helpful with all of the questions I had.
I've also got a question relating to the Ohio PE. The site doesn't make it very clear. I passed the FE before I graduated. I started my job a month after I graduated. My four year mark with this company will be in Feb. By then the deadline to apply for the April exam will have passed. Do you have to have your 4 years to apply? Or can I have my four years before I take it? If I can't even apply until I have 4 years then I'll be waiting an extra 9 months until Oct. when the next test is.
I took schoolofpe.com online review course. It was great and lots of depth. The practice problems were plentiful for general amd afternoon specific and styled in 6 minute problems. It references the cerm but the problems are miles ahead of the ppe pratice problems. I referenced 2 friemds to this course and they passed first try as well.
For the afternoon section, how do they handle the civil discipline? School of PE seems to only sell a "PE - Civil" course, not one specifically for structural or geotech or whatever. So, when they're teaching the afternoon sections, do structurals have to sit through transportation refresher courses and such?
I took it a couple years ago and when you register it comes with a review of the applicable afternoon sevtion. I suggest emailing or calling for current info
From the website. I took the structural afternoon course.
"Our 80 hour comprehensive review course, which is based on the New PE Civil Exam Specifications started with the April 2015 Exam, is divided into the following two parts –
PART 1 - 56 hour Fundamentals Review which covers the stand alone topics from the Breadth Exam and the common topics between the Breadth and the Depth exams. This Fundamentals Review will be conducted in 4 weeks. Detailed Schedule for this part of the course is shown in a table at the bottom of this page. PART 2 - 24 hour Discipline Specific Review which covers topics from the Depth Exam of your choice. Each student receives one Discipline Specific Review out of five with no additional cost. The Discipline Specific Review will be conducted in 2 weeks on Oct 5th/6th/7th/8th; and Oct 12th/13th/14th/15th. These dates will be added to registered students on their login pages during the 3rd week of September. "
Wow, thanks! Great find. Why the hell didn't they put that right on the "PE - Civil" description page? I tried to navigate to the schedule description page from the main SoPE page, but I can't do it. :P
So, did you do anything extra other than the SoPE courses? Did you study additional materials on your own? Did you do extra examples from your textbooks that pertained to the SoPE daily examples?
I just used this course. I read the CERM before hand and used this course and did the practice problems multiple times and had good success.