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[Electrical Engineering] study plan, sources, and experience
I am class of 2025 and my major is chemical engineering with minor of computer science. Moreover, English is not my first language. I took FE EE because I want to take this exam as a turning point of my career. For anyone planning to take FE EE, I hope my experience wil be helpful. I prepared for 3.5 months while I am working full time job(8to5). I took an exam at April 14, 2026, and the result released at April 22 2026 9:02AM EDT.
- For concepts, this open source helped me a lot: https://electricalfereview.com/
- Some answers of video examples and practice problems were wrong, but it may give you the solid understanding of the concept by convincing yourself with AI. I used ChatGPT, but any other generative AI works.
- For practice problems, I bought 2 practice packages from NCEES when I registers the exam, and this book: 978-1591264507.
- Since I used the open source lecture, I thought I needed to spend some money for more practice. I solved NCEES problems 3 days before the exam as they are the closest to the actual exam. When you are practicing, a correction note - writing problems, answer, and state why you were wrong - will be the strong final guide before the exam.
- Practice Routine.
- For the first 3 months, I did not measure the time when I was learning the concepts on weekdays, rather I mastered the concept in a single sitting. That was taking roughly 1-4 hours. I spent about 8 hours for reviewing the concepts and mistakes during weekend, and chilled to prevent the burn-out. Try to be familiar with your exam-qualified calculator, such as practicing rref, matrix multiplication, linear regression, statistics operations.
- Strategy.
- I was not confident in certain concepts such as microprocessor and network structures. You may need to focus on your strength. As an engineering degree holder, math is your baseline.
- Prep for the actual exam.
I took CBT, with a laminated booklet and non-permanent markers. Browsing the reference handbook speed was terrible even I noticed. I can tell that I spend more than 30 minutes for waiting to be loaded. Make sure you know where the constants and equations are located on the handbook.
On top of that, markers were dried if I did not use for 10 seconds. Including double-check, I tried to finish the practice exam under 2 hours for each section. This was very helpful to manage time at the actual exam, even I went to bathroom more than 5 times.
Guess most exam site is CBT but if you can take an exam with paper and pencils, it would be better than getting annoyed with dried markers.
Will try to reply all questions to this post and hope your best!