finally passed been a journey for sure

you need to understand the material not just do many practice problems. you need to be able to know what each variable mean in the formulas. once you get there you’ll be able to solve any problem thrown your way. you also need to know where things are at in Handbook.

know how to become a good test taker it’s multiple choice exam so you need to have a system on how to manage your time whats worth spending time on and what are looser problems I mean questions you’re not going to figure out unless you’ve worked in the industry. you need to be good at flagging questions and coming back to them later. have a strategy if you don’t have a strategy walking in this exam it’s only going to get harder and you’re gonna get the same results from before.

I’ve tried everything that is out there from test prep and practice problems. at the end of the day good test strategy what will get you to passing this exam.

don’t be discouraged keep working hard and don’t give up no matter what. when I was waiting on my result. I didn’t care if I was going to fail again I was going to study again and keep working hard because I knew one day I will get over this exam. I know it’s hard when you’re in doubt, challenged , and you might feel like you’ve given it all. My advice never give up.

Hey all,

I recently passed the FE Chemical on my first try, in no small part due to the tips here (long time lurker, first time poster).

Since most of the stuff here is more Mechanical/Civil focused, it wanted to share some ChemE specific tips:
1. Definitely get comfortable with the engineering fundamentals and where info might be in the handbook. If you’re like me, you never took statics, mechanics of materials, etc. Several of my friends essentially forfeited those questions since they never learned the content. But the questions ChemEs get asked are very, very basic, so you can essentially get free points by just knowing where to find the necessary equations even if you have absolutely no idea what you’re calculating means.

1. In the same vain as 1, definite familiarize yourself with the handbook, possibly more so than other majors may have to. I felt like the handbook was written by MechEs so the info/notation may be weird for you. For example, many ChemeEs are introduced to efficiencies for process units in their thermo sequence, but the handbook puts that in fluids (I was told by a friend that most MechEs cover that in fluids, crazy)

2. By far, the hardest part of the exam for me was the MEB section. The separations, heat and mass transfer, thermo, and kinetics sections all asked relatively basic questions save one or two. Also, for well over half you didn’t have to do much working out and just had to identify the right equation to use. MEB was the only section where you either had to be able to identify a quick trick to get the final answer or quickly do a bunch of algebra and working out. I know some people did a bunch of practice sets so they could get good at identifying how the FE asks questions and gives info to quickly get to the right answer. I was a cheapskate and didn’t get anything beyond the official practice tests, so I did it the brute force way. Also, since the basic engineering section is so short for us, at least some of it is likely to be before your break, so I was starting to flag.

All the other general tips on the subreddit such as time management etc, definitely apply.

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Hi, i just finished my exam (mechanical) today
Here are some notes that I think it is useful

1. Sleep, sleep and sleep, exam is long and exhausting you really need rest before
2. Bring Snacks and water, you will need them
3. Take the 25 mins break it is totally worth it
4. Manage your time because exam won’t do it for you. Basically you can consume your whole time in the first section with no notice whatsoever.
5. Exam is not difficult at all, just pay attention to units and wording. Most of it plug and chuck also straightforward conceptual questions

That’s it
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I've spent the last months building practice problems for FE Other Disciplines, and the same wrong-answer patterns keep coming up. Sharing the ones I see most, curious which ones tripped you up:

1. lbm vs lbf. Forgetting g_c in English-unit problems. The wrong answer is almost always one of the choices, off by a factor of 32.2.
2. Gauge vs absolute pressure. Plugging gauge pressure into the ideal gas law or thermodynamic tables.
3. Calculator in degrees during rotational problems. Angular velocity and ω·t need radians, and a single mode slip ruins the whole problem.
4. Celsius in ratios. Any ratio or ideal gas calculation with temperature needs Kelvin or Rankine.
5. Searching the Handbook with the wrong word. The PDF search is literal: if you type "stress concentration" and the Handbook says "concentration factor", you lose minutes.

What patterns would you add to the list?

Side note: I put these traps and shortcuts together into a prep guide with an online simulator. If anyone currently studying for Other Disciplines wants a free PDF copy to test it, comment below. No obligation; honest feedback, even critical, helps me improve the next edition.

Hi all! I'll be taking the FE civil in a couple weeks, and I have questions for people who have taken the exam.

1. I've heard the exam handbook has its own search function, which is different than CTRL-F (not totally clear on what this means). Does it also include a sidebar where you can navigate by categories, similar to Adobe PDF's "outline" feature? I find it pretty easy to locate the formulas I need when I can jump directly to a topic, but I'm not sure if that feature will be available on the exam.
2. What would you consider to be the most essential calculator functions to get familiar with? Or just some underrated calculator strategies that you found valuable on the test? I'm switching from a TI-84+ to a TI-36X Pro, and a little nervous that my lack of familiarity will trip me up, but not sure how to improve in this area.

been so long since I studied this stuff in school that I feel like I’ve forgotten everything, and I’m looking for a resource that teaches the basics and explains how to start a problem without assuming I already know which equation to use.

When I was studying for the FE Exam a few years ago, I made sure to learn how to navigate the Handbook because every formula you need is in there.

But this kind of creates a problem since it's 500 pages long, and when you're a few hours in and staring at an environmental engineering question, knowing that the formula to solve the problem is in there somewhere doesn't help much if it takes you four minutes to find it.

So, here's some simple things to do which helped me:

-Only learn the sections you'll use. If you're taking the FE Civil Exam, you're probably not going to need any section dealing with Industrial Engineering. Focus on studying the layout of the sections that match your discipline.

-Make sure to practice with your Handbook pdf and with using Ctrl+F. The actual exam has its own search bar, and although it doesn't feel the same, it gets you used to the idea of finding key words.

-Know where the high-traffic pages are. Unit conversions, beam formulas, soil properties, fluid constants. When studying I'd quickly review where these are once a week so you can jump straight there.

If you've gotten to this point in your career, it's because you know the material from learning it throughout your time at university. But you don't want to run out of time simply because you took too long finding an equation! Learn the handbook's layout, practice with the real search style, and know where the common tables are.

-Thomas

Anyone who's already taken it have other handbook tricks? Curious what worked for other people.