I took the EIT five years out of college, so I had to study pretty hard and re-learn calculus. I would say 6 months every day at lunch, an hour a day of studying. Then i waited 5 years to take the PE, and forgot calculaus again. soo... I studied another 6 months and re-learned calculus, took the PE. At that time you could take any bound material and I brought a boxfull. The only book I used was a CRC standard math table to look up the volume of some obscure solid. Now I have forgotten calculus once again! The strategy is different on the two tests. On the EIT, you are going for volume - the more questions you answer right the better. It is designed to be hard to finish all the questions, there are hundreds of them. On the PE when I took it, I had to answer ten questions and there were 30 to choose from. This allowed one to answer questions from their specialty only. Electricals have it tough, because there are barely ten electrical questions in all. I read all the questions before answering any of them, carefully picking the ones I knew the best. A solid background in electronics won't help you much on the PE, it is very much into building systems engineering, civil, mechanical. Get a PE practice exam, get the PE study books, and work hard for 6 months. -- Lawrence Lile Senior Project Engineer Toastmaster, Inc. Division of Salton, Inc. 573-446-5661 voice 573-446-5676 fax Robert Young Sent by: pic microcontroller discussion list 04/17/2004 10:06 AM Please respond to pic microcontroller discussion list To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU cc: Subject: Re: [OT:] FE / EIT exam Yea, I took it. I bought one of the review books about a month before and went through it and made some notes. Extra calculator (didn't need it), pencils and they allowed us snacks so long as they where "quiet". Quiet snacks meant no loud crunchy stuff and we take the wrappers off before you went in. Water OK, soda not OK. My pile of stuff was probably under 3 lbs. I saw people hauling in every textbook they ever owned! Silly. I took the exam my last semester of college. I figured that if I couldn't pass the EIT after 3 1/2 years there was a serious problem. Other than reading the review book I didn't go to any of the cram sessions. Didn't see the point and still don't. Passed just fine. Lowest score was associated with the "chemistry" section. Makes sense because I took Chem. I and II as a Freshman and really didn't enjoy the classes so I didn't internalize the information. Robert Young YR Consulting rwyoung@ieee.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert B." To: Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 10:09 PM Subject: [OT:] FE / EIT exam > Are there any engineers out there who remember (or had to?) taking their > fundamentals of engineering (FE) exam? I think it used to be called the EIT > / Engineer in training exam. I'm set to take it on tomorrow (Saturday) > morning, and let me tell you it's nerve-racking! Insights appreciated! > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: > [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads > -- 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 -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body