----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert B." To: Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 6:12 PM Subject: Re: [OT:] FE / EIT exam > Yeah they don't let you bring anything in with you now, or even use a decent > calculator. They give you a fairly thorough (but poorly laid out and > somewhat difficult to use) little booklet with most of the equations you > might forget in there, and restrict you to a non-memory non-graphing > plain-old-havent-used-this-since-gradeschool scientific calculator. The > calculator rule is new in the past 1-2 years. Apparently people were trying > to cheat somehow with the memory variety by programming in test questions > instead of using their time to take the test. Who knows... Unfortunately > through 4 years of college and most of high school the current generations > of engineers has been trained on the multi-line variety which are > prohibited. Yeah yeah, i know we have it all easy since we don't have to > use slide rules or abbicas or whatever. In short, it was about the most > miserable 10 hours I've paid to experience in my entire life. Pretty sure I > passed though. > Unless they changed the core of the test, understanding general principles and knowing how to problem solve will carry through better than any calculator. It is a long test. What is the fee now? I think I paid $50 or $75. Robert Young YR Consulting rwyoung@ieee.org -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics