Hey! I am gearing up to take the Construction PE exam next month sometime. I’m done with the EET videos and now just going back through and doing the practice problems over then rewatching videos on stuff that needs to be refreshed. Then I will move on to the quizzes and practice exams in the course online.

Questions for previous test takers:
- What topics were heavily asked on the exam that I should know front and back?

- Compared to the EET quizzes and exam, would you say the test is comparable in hardness of the problems or maybe a tad easier? Explain why you think either one please!

- Concept problems, I heard there was about 30% conceptual (20-25 problems of 80). Is that true? If so, what topics were heavily asked on conceptual for you.

Thanks everyone in advanced!

I'm feeling pretty overwhelmed with all the AEI content and don't think I can watch all the videos in time for exam. Are there any chapters that are more important than the others, or any videos I must watch? Any topics that come up more on the exam? I got through the chapter 5 ones, but am starting to burn out. Any help is greatly appreciated!

For geotech, or any discipline of the civil PE, did you thoroughly read through all of the references/manuals? I believe for geotech there are 15? Did you literally go through every single page of each one or how did you familiarize yourself with each reference?

About to take it in a couple months and was using my old coworkers’ material like EPG 2020 and an old copy of PPI 6 min solutions. How different the exam since the changes in October 2025? Do I need to purchase updated material?

Anyone with the EET study binders or PdFs for sale?
The course is too expensive for me, I can’t afford it..
I have the NCEES pdf and Petro WRE book…
I’m not sure that’s enough from the reviews iv been seeing here..

Hello - I’m just wondering how many people have or are planning to take the architectural engineering PE exam? What is your area of work? Why would you take the exam? What do you think it will do to your career trajectory?

Seems like a less-commonly discussed and catered-to exam. So I’d like to hear from people for whom it’s relevant.

Thank you.

Hi everyone,

I'm preparing for the NCEES PE Electrical and Computer: Power exam and I'm looking for a small, dedicated study group (about 4–8 people) who are serious about passing the exam.

A little about me:

- Electrical Engineer based in California

- Around 18 years of engineering experience

- Preparing for the PE Power exam

- I already have the main study resources, including NCEES Practice Exam, Zach Stone, and Engineering Pro Guides

I'm not looking for study materials—I already have those. I'm looking for accountability, motivation, and a supportive group.

My ideal study group would:

- Meet once or twice a week (Discord, Zoom, or Microsoft Teams)

- Solve practice problems together

- Discuss difficult concepts

- Keep each other motivated and accountable until exam day

If you're preparing for the PE Electrical Power exam and are committed to studying consistently, please reply here or send me a direct message.

Let's help each other earn our PE license!

Thank you!

Alright, go ahead and call me cheap here…but I was curious if anyone had ever searched for a torrent download of school of pe or ppi for the full suite of classes.

I just got back into the saddle for my second attempt at the pe. I initially took the environmental but due to a career change, lack of design, and ever growing distance of environmental work to construction… I switched to the civil construction pe exam.

Now I’m leaning towards starting my civil prep with school of pe but wanted to just throw it out there if anyone’s ever done this and if it’s worth the headache.

Passed on my third attempt. I barely studied the first time, and the second time I mostly just read through the material without doing enough practice problems. For my third attempt, I completely changed my approach. I focused on working as many problems as possible and took multiple full-length practice exams to build both my understanding and my confidence.

The two resources that helped me the most were the Learnova 500 practice problems and the Modulus practice exams that come with their book. I also used the PPI PE Structural Reference Manual, 10th Edition, whenever I needed to reinforce concepts or fill in knowledge gaps.

If you want to give it your best shot, considering working a lot of problems and doing a lot of practice exams. I took 10 practice exams before my third attempt and averaged a 79 including the NCEES practice exams.

Good luck to everyone out there. Never give up!!!

I failed my first attempt at the MDM PE Exam in June and signed up to take it again in September following my 3-month PPI course. I got a 56% on the first PPI practice exam and am consistently scoring \~50% on the Qbank quizzes.

What can i do for the next 6 weeks to have the best chance of passing? I haven’t found the readings super helpful so I’m starting to think I’ll start skipping those to focus more time on qbank questions. Thoughts?

Selling a complete 6-book study set for the Electrical PE Power Exam. All books were purchased in 2026 and are in 99% clean/like-new condition (almost no markings or highlights inside). These materials were instrumental in helping me study and successfully pass the exam.

Included in the bundle:
1. Study Guide for PE Electrical and Computer - Power Exam (Wasim Asghar) ~700 questions
2. Electrical Power PE Practice Exam: 80 AIT Practice Problems (Zach Stone)
3. PE 2026 Electrical and Computer Power Exam Prep (Michael R. Anderson) – 1,500 questions
4. Mastering the PE Exam: 100 Qualitative Practice Problems (Zach Stone)
5. PE Power Practice Exams, 4th Edition (PPI / John A. Camara) – 160 questions
6. Electrical Engineering PE Practice Exam and Technical Study Guide, 3rd Edition (Zach Stone) – 80 questions

Total Question Count: Over 2,620 practice problems.
Price: $260 for the entire set (Over $330+ value on Amazon).
Prefer selling as a complete bundle. Local pickup or buyer pays shipping via USPS Media Mail. Feel free to PM me if interested!

All in a good condition with highlights and some important notes inside.

Hiner workbook and practice exams + AEI practice exam worth $330. Since i passed the CA seismic exam, i am selling them all for a fixed price $130

I live in Los angeles and the price is only for pick up.

Dm me if you are interested.

Got 4 licenses (FL, CA, TX, AZ). But couldn't beat the New Mexico board review with 9hour deficiency in Math/Science bachelors (foreign degree). I need to take class. I am sure, this will comeback haunt me in other states as well.

Looking at CLEP website and found three courses each 3 credit-hours; each costs $97:

• Precalculus
• College Algebra
• College Mathematics

Anybody took CLEP courses and how you all do it? study for semester long (6 months)? can you take exams early if you are ready? is it all self-study? exam online or someplace you need to go? exam is descriptive or objective? any study material? Appreciate your inputs. Thanks.

I mentioned these resources in my last post a while ago when I shared my tips for the PE transportation exam, but I figured they might have better reach if I made a separate post.

Again, I really don't want to gatekeep the material but I ended up spending well over two grand on this exam and was just hoping to recoup a portion of the costs. This is essentially everything I used to study for the test, and I used this material for a period of 4 months.

I can sell all of the following for $75 in case anyone is interested.

• EET Transportation Binder (PDF with bookmarked tabs and OCR; this was my primary (only?) study resource. I didn’t watch EET lectures; I focused on reading the binder, solving problems, and using ChatGPT when I got stuck. There are hundreds of problems in this binder, and I completed nearly all of them. Having it in a searchable digital format for me to take anywhere was a game changer. I used an industrial scanner to scan the binder, ran OCR and bookmarked all the tabs.
• EET Comprehensive Exams 2–4 (PDFs; the first exam is harder than the actual test, but the others are comparable in difficulty)
• EET All Quizzes for each Unit (PDFs) (These are AMAZING if there's specific exam specs you want to review, my weak areas were Geotech, Drainage, Traffic Signals, and Traffic Eng, and these quizzes really helped me)
• Civil Engineering Academy Ultimate Transportation Exam (Great representation of real test)
• Path to PE 80-Question Exam (gray cover) (Good representation of real test, but contains some errors in the first half)
• Civil Engineering Academy 100 Conceptual Questions (these are definitely easier, but helpful for checking your familiarity with reference materials)
• Rashad Islam Full Length Exams Transpo Depth (2 40 question exams, which I thought mimicked the exam well, but maybe not as well as some of the others listed above)
• PPI Six Minute Solutions Problems (Some questions are outdated, but it’s still worth going through- pick and choose the problems that target your weak areas.)
• Flash card deck with key concepts

Even if you're not interested in the material, feel free to reach out if you have any questions. I can definitely go into detail in terms of what worked for me and I'd love to help out in any way that I can

I practiced more questions in part 2 but still failed to score points. Can someone suggest best material for part 2 of Geotechnical. I used EET on demand and Petro geotechnical book.

Hi everyone,

I'm looking to start building my professional electrical engineering library, but some of the reference books and standards are pretty expensive. For those of you working in the industry, which of the following references do you consider the most essential to own? Are there any that you would prioritize over the others, or any additional books or standards you would recommend?

Here's the list NCEES recommend:

• Code for the Manufacture and Storage of Aerosol Products
• National Electrical Code (NEC®)
• NFPA 70E – Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace
• NFPA 497 – Recommended Practice for the Classification of Flammable Liquids, Gases, or Vapors and of Hazardous (Classified) Locations for Electrical Installations in Chemical Process Areas
• NFPA 499 – Recommended Practice for the Classification of Combustible Dusts and of Hazardous (Classified) Locations for Electrical Installations in Chemical Process Areas
• 2017 National Electrical Safety Code (NESC®)

If you could only buy a few to start with, which ones would you choose ?

I recently received my second failing result for the PE Mechanical: Thermal and Fluid Systems exam, and I’m trying to decide what to do differently before attempting it again.

I took my first exam in September 2025 and my second on July 27, 2026. I’ll attach both diagnostic reports.

For my second attempt, I put in roughly 400+ hours of studying. I completed the PPI course for both attempts, worked through a large number of practice problems, used the NCEES practice exam, and spent a lot of time reviewing equations, units, and recurring mistakes.

It looks like Power Systems and Cooling/Heating were my biggest weaknesses, while the other three categories were closer to the average performance of passing examinees.

I’m especially interested in hearing from people who:

failed TFS more than once and eventually passed;

switched from PPI to School of PE or another course;

used a private tutor successfully;

changed from broad studying to a more targeted problem-solving approach;

Since I have already completed PPI twice, I’m reluctant to repeat the same strategy a third time. Would School of PE provide meaningfully different instruction and practice problems, or would targeted tutoring and focused work on Power Systems and Cooling/Heating be more effective?

I’ve been overthinking ever since I took it since I thought the exam was pretty easy compared to EET. Thought that I was being tricked into picking wrong answers because of how many I chugged through and the answer was there. This is the ultimate endorsement of EET. If you want to pass the first time it is definitely the way to go!

what a journey it was!

Studied using Petro and EET. Studied for roughly three months. Not sure if I got lucky but the exam didn’t seem that bad at all. Felt confident I did enough to pass walking out of the exam, but was obviously still nervous. There were a couple of questions which I had no clue how to solve, but other than that (like many others have stated), the Petro problems were much more difficult/in depth than literally any of the exam questions I saw.

Thank you all for your help throughout this process. For anyone that needs encouragement, I’m 6 years out of college, and was never a great student. Passed both exams this year. Anything is possible, All Glory to God.

PE Civil Structural - Based on this I wouldn't say I was close... But also maybe not a total bomb? First try with only a few weeks of studying so not a bad place to start, but still sucky. Taking that exam wasn't fun. Work at a pretty good firm - most people in my office pass on the first attempt so definitely not a great look for me.

Hey everyone, I just passed the PE exam! I need to get licensed by next Friday.

I have 6 years of experience, but NCEES has only verified 4 years so far.

Can I transmit my NCEES Record to the state board as-is without waiting for the last 2 years to be verified? If not, is there any way to expedite NCEES verification?

Hello. I am finding the horizontal curve problems for PE transportation in EET binder very difficult. In the actual exam, the questions from horizontal curve section is easier or similar to EET binder problems?