u/Adept_Rough1448

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▲ 28 r/FE_Exam

First of all, shout out to Mark Matteson. I studied for two months. The first two weeks were all the Mark Matteson videos, then I took a long break (like a month), then the last two weeks was all PrepFE. The way I structured PrepFE was focusing on the sections that I struggled with and making sure to hit ALL areas at least once every 3 days. I enjoy the grind and did 25-40 practice questions each day. I posted on here after my exam and didn't feel well about it. I got some great advice from my senior design professor before I took it. He said, "If you feel like you failed, you probably passed. If you feel like you passed, you probably failed".

The test day made me very nervous. My Advice for test day would be to pack food, but make it a nice snack and NOT a meal. I over ate and felt sleepy for the second half. For me, the first half was easier than the second. The first half will look like the PrepFE questions almost exactly. The second half looked similar to PrepFE but some of the questions did not have the nice visuals that PrepFE has. For example, I had two concrete beam/column question and they just give you the dimensions without the visual explaining where the dimensions correspond to. With that in mind, make sure you know exactly what's going on in the questions instead of relying on visuals (I'm a visual learner). Best of luck to you all!!

u/Adept_Rough1448 — 9 days ago
▲ 10 r/FE_Exam

I just finished my Civil FE this morning and feel like I failed it. I used Mark Mattson's lessons and PrepFE to study. I did all of Mark's lessons 2 months ago and after I finished, I got busy with Senior Design and other college course work and took a month off of studying. 3 weeks leading up to it, I did 20-30 PrepFE practice problems a day and got all my averages for all areas to +80%. I felt confident this morning and got through the first half with only a few questions I guessed/struggled with. After my break, I started the second half and the time just flew by. I got down to 15 minutes left and had at least 10 unanswered questions scattered about the second half, and quite a few questions I was not confident on. Do y'all think there's still a good chance I passed??

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