So I have not really started studying yet. I was hoping to find online resources, but they all are pretty expensive. The only real free resource I've found is http://feexam.ou.edu/ (thanks Oklahoma) Does anyone know where you can find free practice exams or study questions. I'm also taking the Environmental afternoon session.
Thanks, and good luck to everyone taking it!
Posted Apr 13, 2012, 2:56 PM UTC
Look at the supplied equations book if you have it in print form. If not, click here for a pdf of it.
There's also the FE question of the day.
I'll echo that looking over the equation book is the single most important thing you can do at this point. That and getting a good night's sleep.
Good luck OP.
Thanks for the advice, that's what I'll probably do.
If you did well in your classes up to this point you will pass the FE. Any question that seems oddly specific will have a very specific equation hiding in the book.
I should probably start studying for that...
do you have the correct calculator, this is imperative.
check with friends that are also taking it, they may have bought a study guide. i agree they are pretty expensive. i bought mine used when i took it a couple of years ago and it was $70.
let us know if you have general questions about the test.
Yep I have a casio fx-115. My friend told me that'd be fine. I'm just mostly worried about the questions in the Environmental Section as I can't seem to really find any online and there's no review for my school. Although I heard the pass rate is like 90% I just don't want to accidentally be that 10%
fx-115 is the best choice.
i don't know what to tell you for the afternoon part. i took general/general cause there isn't an arce afternoon section.
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You would most likely hear a bunch of cheers from engineers taking the FE/PE.
I have no idea what NCEES's policy is when it comes to weather conditions.
You are an okie what we do during a tornado is look outside. Then they will shove you back into the room.
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most likely "sorry, take it next year"
More like take it in October.
Haha, yeah, I meant next academic year. I took mine in October last year, it was way less scary than I thought, but still worth it to study.
I've just been looking through the equations book. It'll save you time if you have an idea of where the info is and there isn't going to be much on the exam that is not covered there.
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I would love to know how you feel about the environmental session. I couldn't find much in terms of study help, so I might just end up doing the general (not taking it till next semester).
I'll let you know after I take it. From what my professors say, there's always an easy way to solve it. It's just if you can figure it out.
also let me know if you could. I'll be taking it next year
The environmental section was definitely significantly harder than the AM section. I personally already felt burned out from the first section and immediately had to poo after picking up the test which definitely did not add to my focus. None of the questions were hard. All of the ones that I worked I was able to do within 5 minutes at the most, probably averaging at 1 minute. The worst part was seeing so many questions that I had never seen before in any of my classes. I felt like at least half of the questions were ones I had to figure out and learn on the spot. I kind of wish I would have studied for it, my friends felt more confident who bought an Environmental study guide and worked the problems.
What kind of questions did you feel you've never seen? Did they have a good composite of air, soil, ground and surface water? Or was it more focused on one? Do your friends have a suggestion on which environmental study guide to look at?
Thanks for getting back to me!
I think the biggest problem was that my hydrodynamics and hydraulics professor wrote their own books and had their own methods for solving problems. Those are the ones I had the most trouble with. I just wasn't used to using the equations that they gave us and never found an answer for a couple of those problems. My two friends who did study just bought the book from the ncees website, although I'm sure any book would be helpful. If you study last minute, brush up on your dimensional analysis and know the units that everything should be in. I solved a lot of problems that I didn't immediately know and had to go back to just by using that.
Well at least you found a way to figure some out! Thanks for the tips, I hope you did well!
I figured this was the best place to put it, but I'm not really expecting any answers...
On page 160 in the NCEES provided handbook, does anyone know what the different lines refer to or when they should be used in the 'Sewage Flow Ratio Curves' graph?
DO NOT SHOW UP WITH A GRAPHING CALCULATOR. NO TI80 SERIES.
Why don't they allow graphing calcs? Storing info or something?
that, and symbolic manipulation.
everything on the FE is fairly simple mathwise, anyways. graphing calculator would be completely unnecessary :)
Gotcha...I wonder if that viewpoint is slowly changing though, I have professors nowadays that look at us like we're idiots when we try and solve equations by hand rather than using our calculator. For the longest time it was the opposite