Also, ask questions! The instructors are more than happy to answer them for you. That's about it! Really helped with knowing just what kind of questions would be expected on the exam, and the review material was a great reference to bring to the exam!
Highly recommended as a foundation for PE preparation. PE Mechanical Customer. It is much more difficult than the actual test, but it will leave no stone unturned.
You WILL be prepared for the exam if you attend the lectures and do the homework. The knowledge and test-taking tips from the instructor were very helpful. Course notes were a great reference on the exam. Quite often, class examples were very representative of actual exam problems.
The best part was receiving a good study structure, being held accountable for doing it, and having a place to ask questions and review the concepts. I know this review course was the reason I passed. You also have to put in the effort, but it is worth it in the end.
PPI does a solid job of keeping attendees on a schedule and giving them an overall review of the required materials. The instructor offered valuable advice that only experience could bring. Thank you for your guidance and thank you PPI. I highly recommend this course to everybody who wants to pursue a technical career. The course materials were very helpful in learning what will be on the exam. It was often more difficult than the actual exam questions, but they will prepare you for the test.
The course also allows you to interact with other PE exam takers to be able to ask them questions and learn from other students. There was also good feedback and help from the other students. It's definitely hard work, but definitely worth it!
I have been out of school for 30 years, and the structured lectures and homework helped me get back in practice. I went into the exam nervous and left confident.
I wouldn't have been able to do this without PPI. The instructor in particular was very helpful, and his tips were solid gold.
The course follows a rigorous but helpful schedule. Assessment: I used 2 textbooks, 7 codes, this reference manual, and flipped through about 1" of the paper.
The rest was there as a security blanket. Of paper. I was anxious, as I become before any test, but sort of deadened due to lack of sleep and an ill-timed 40 hr streak of wakefulness earlier in the week to finish a suddenly urgent-seeming work project. Looking back, that work project wasn't THAT urgent, but my awesome procrastination habit jumped its oxbow and flooded my plains of prioritization, causing me to desire work over study; the partitioning levees for the different sections of life will be rebuilt sturdier.
This exam is like the SATs, where there's no real effective method of studying. Okay, that's incorrect. The studying is to become familiar with resources, to quickly look up a formula or question or already be familiar with a standard analysis procedure come test day.
There's some statistic floating around that the average student studies for hours before this licensing exam. I don't think anybody needs to study that much for this. Study, but don't push if that means you must forego the taking of walks, playing with a kitten, eating right, exercising, or reading. This test made me think of family. My parents live in the next town over so I stayed with them the night before instead of hitting the road at 6am; I had a well-balanced brain-nourishing dinner and breakfast, and mom actually packed my lunch, hah!
The lady who sat in front of me was beautifully pregnant, I'd say in the 4th trimester she was so huge. On the way to victory dinner at Red Lobster shut it chain restaurant haters, the cheese biscuits are crack! Also along the lines of familiy, my mom does this thing where she'll bang her toe or arm, look around to see if anyone is watching, and then make an exaggerated grimace of fake-pain.
I used to fall for it and then get annoyed, but now I enjoy the showmanship. I'll rate her on reaction time, size of grimace, whether she clutches theatrically at the body part, and vocalization. Sadly, I think I've picked up her habit: Never has one so insignificant me complained so much about so little exam.
I restrained myself from updating this "review" every few days with a showy grimace of whining. I don't want to abuse this platform intended for the discussion of books. For the test itself, I don't agree that getting more questions correct relative to the rest measures much of note. The older engineers in my office spoke of an older format, many permutations ago, when the 8-hr exam consisted of 4 problems.
As horrifying as that sounds, it allowed graders to measure understanding of process and code, very important in a process-heavy process processprocessprocess like producing a bridge. Now, the test is like modern entertainment, or the modern child's attention span, splintered into indistinguished soundbites of info all separated out from the processprocessprocess that defines it. Who the hell cares whether the factor of safety for uplift resistance of a square shallow footing supporting a column is a 1.
The given information provided all and only the necessary info to pick out the correct answer, but lost all the intricacy of clearly defining the problem when presented with the client's order of a column on some land, testing soil samples, identifying the type of structure to use, calculating the necessary loads, applying the correct factors based on ever-changing refinement from research, and developing to a useful form for construction.
I'm getting bogged down in whining, but I don't agree that this test will necessarily reward all those who can do good work and protect the rest of us from those who just look good on paper. Standarizing the qualifications for licensing is bad.
Maybe a portfolio-type system, showcasing problem-solving or processprocessprocess, would be a better gage of ability. View all 44 comments. Still more PE exam reference material. The CERM contains way more material than any one person actually needs to know. The author says to study for something like hours which I want to say I did, but I definitely didn't. I found that this book was most enjoyable with a cup of coffee to keep me alert and motivated. Zingerman's was the best place to read for hours at a time.
As I got further into this book, I found that coffee shops were a little too distracting, so I moved my reading these places: Duderstadt Center, Mallet's Creek Library, and Downtown Library. The Duderstadt Center was the best place for working problems in this book and supplemental problems.
I read this book from the back to front starting with construction and ending with water resources since I sat for the water resources exam and wanted it fresh in my mind come test time. I worked the sample problems as I encountered them and worked supplement problems corresponding to the topic at the end of each section. This worked well for me.
An additional more focused book for your afternoon session might be beneficial. I found the water resources section to be organized in a confusing manner. The sample problems are okay, but are more to demonstrate the topic covered rather than mimic actual test problems.
My favorite part of the book was the After the Exam portion. Aug 01, Matt rated it it was amazing. Very informative and a great tool in design work. One of the improvements to the book that I would like to see in the future is including erosion and sedimentation control design in the environmental portion of the book.
Jan 24, Matthew rated it really liked it Shelves: dead-tree , read-in Any book that helps me gets me a raise at work automatically gets 4 stars- no questions asked. Oct 09, All In added it. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Jan 31, Kyle Young rated it it was amazing. A necessary evil. Aug 03, Danielle rated it really liked it.
This is a great study book for the Civil PE. It is has just about everything you need to know for every topic breadth and depth portions and dives into the details so you will do well on the afternoon depth portion no matter what subject you choose as your emphasis.
However, it only gets 4 stars because I had a hard time following all of the variables in the thousands of equations. If you read every page of every section of each subject, you will probably understand as I did with certain subj This is a great study book for the Civil PE. If you read every page of every section of each subject, you will probably understand as I did with certain subjects but if you are only studying certain topics within each subject, it doesn't always explain what the variables are and I had to flip the pages and search for variable definitions for several minutes.
While this isn't a big deal during study time before the exam, you just don't have that kind of time if you get a question on the exam you didn't expect. The quick reference manual for this book is the same way. Jul 02, Carole rated it really liked it. So happy to be able to mark this book as read.
Not that I read it from cover to cover. But the studying for the PE chapter of my life is over, so I'm done with this book. Unless I didn't pass. I hope I passed. I think no one should go into the exam without this book, since it has a lot of good reference matter in it.
But as a study aid Just get familiar with where the different tables are. But the sample problems aren't an accurate reflection of what you see on the PE exam. Jul 31, Esonja rated it did not like it. This book is all civil engineering condensed. I'd give it 3 or 4 stars, except reading this makes me quite churlish. Suffice to say, I'd rather not be poring over these lines.
Also, similar to a dictionary, what you need is mostly all there. However, this reference only works if you have contextual and supplemental resources to make it all meaningful and sensical. I confess, I read as much as I could get through. View 1 comment. Jan 23, Greg rated it it was amazing. Well, it covered everything on the morning breadth portion of the exam. I would recommend copying the index to avoid some flipping around during the exam.
Sep 02, Lauren rated it really liked it. Glad to be done with this one. Wouldn't recommend this book unless you are and aspiring Civil Engineer. If you are taking the PE, then it is a must have.
Very comprehensive. Aug 26, Lan Anh Tran is currently reading it. Trying to pass the PE with this Don't even bother unless you're trying to becomes a PE Jan 23, Scott Schluter rated it it was ok. Very tough book to get through. Not a very clear author. After the PE I see little chance I will refer to this book, there are far better resources that are much clearer and easier to understand.
I suppose it was amazing because I never have to take that stupid test again!!! Thanks Mr. Lindeburg for helping me pass! View all 3 comments. Stephanie Holloman rated it it was amazing May 20,
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