re: October 2016 PE Exam Results Thread

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ETA: Have a question for y'all. So of about 9 people that I know who took the exam, 4/4 Transpo depths passed, 1/1 Cons depth passed, 1/3 struc passed, then both a Mech and Elec failed.

I've always heard Transportation was the easier depth. Is it silly to have taken the Structural depth in October, and then attempt the transportation depth in the spring. Only reason I took structures in Oct is because that's what my line of work was in.
What says the Engineers of the OT?

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What'd you do for prep? I highly recommend the testmasters class if you didn't do that. That's the only prep I did, and I passed first time.

I work in construction management now, and took it in transportation anyway. The only real downside is that transportation requires the most reference material, and you want to have all of them to get the easy look up points. It was about $1300 worth.

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. Only reason I took structures in Oct is because that's what my line of work

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I would suggest to continue to take the area of your focus.

And I have some advice for passing the Civil/Structural PE. Study for the SE! I took the SE vertical in April of this year, and was fortunately able to pass it.

I really did not feel like gearing up for the SE Lateral this fall (I've heard it is a bitch and a half) so decided to take the PE Civil/Structural just to get my license (I will finish up the SE Lateral down the road in Spring of '18 most likely).

Anyways, I managed to pass the PE Civil/Structural with not too many issues. The morning was a little tricky (especially with water problems I just didn't study enough for) but I felt like I crushed the structural depth in the afternoon. Answered all 40 questions, and felt like I got a good answer on all of them (can't know for sure because they don't release the score, just Pass).

But studying for the SE in the spring made the PE structural depth a breeze. I highly suggest you get the SERM and practice exams and Six Minute Solutions for the SE Vertical while studying for the structural depth in the Spring.