FE/EIT exam. Anyone taken it?

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• stamptrol Posts: 1,731

  2009-09-07 12:48 edited 2009-09-07 12:48

  Get together with some colleagues and purchase the NCEES review material for the FE. Their website has the links you need.
  
  Preparation pays off for this exam!
  
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• erco Posts: 20,261

  2009-09-07 17:34 edited 2009-09-07 17:34

  As Tom says, prepare, prepare, prepare. I took the EIT many moons ago (1982) for Mechanical Engineering and it was much easier than I expected. In fact, I thought the last question was a joke. They had a machine drawn with several gears, cams & levers. The question was, when you turn crank A clockwise, which way does output link Z move? It only took 10 seconds to figure out correctly, then several minutes to convince myself that it wasn't a trick question. Good luck with your test.
  
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• AJM Posts: 171

  2009-09-08 00:36 edited 2009-09-08 00:36

  Hi Benty,
  
  I took the FE in October of last year. Like erco, I also took the mechanical section and it definitely was easier than I had anticipated.
  
  My advise is to review the supplied reference material that they will hand out during the exam. You can download a copy of the supplied material here:
  
  www.ncees.org/exams/study_materials/fe_handbook/
  
  Knowing where to find information during the exam helps a lot. Also, review statistics. I was surprised by how many statistic/probability questions were on first section of the exam. Luckily, they are easy enough to figure out for anyone with a math background.
  
  Good Luck!
• Timothy D. Swieter Posts: 1,613

  2009-09-08 03:42 edited 2009-09-08 03:42

  Practice the review materials regularly and you will do fine on FE exam. I started a couple weeks ago preparing for the PE but I have to delay to next spring or fall because of work.
  
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• benty Posts: 20

  2009-09-10 02:34 edited 2009-09-10 02:34

  Thanks for the input guys! Makes me feel better knowing it's not as bad as I was thinking it might/could be. Will definitely check out the material on their site. Now to see how much of differential equations I can remember
• LoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537

  2009-09-10 14:00 edited 2009-09-10 14:00

  I did it years ago (1980s) and passed on the first try in California. Having the right review materials helped. One good set is more worthwhile that a lot of different sets. If your mathematic skills are good, everything becomes much easier to organize and recall. I took the programing section on the second day. At that time, it was quite easy - maybe too easy. I also attend a review course at UC Berkeley, but that covered so much so quickly that even the professors were embarassed with how little time they spent on each topic.
  
  Instead of working through the material only once for the exam, I worked on a 3 pass system dictated by the calendar. The first time I just read through everything quickly to get a feeling for what I knew. The second time I worked through with all the problem sets in detail. And the third time, i mopped up what I didn't know. By doing it this way, there was less pressure as I got near the exam date rather than more. I did the same for my Department of Treasury, Enrolled Agent exam as I don't handle exam pressure very well. It took six months total. My undergraduate degree is in Fine Art, not Engineering - but math has always been easy to me.
  
  Doing three passes may actually be more natural way to build memory and recall.
  
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  Post Edited (Loopy Byteloose) : 9/10/2009 2:54:13 PM GMT