PE Electrical Power CBT 2023 - Experience and review.

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Casual conversation discussing the CBT Electrical Power PE exam. Taken July 2023. I work as a design engineer for a public agency. I took the exam 3 years after graduating college.
Disclaimer: The PE is head and shoulders harder than the EIT/FE, i hear this very often that the FE is harder than the PE. I'm here to tell you that is a massive lie.
Disclaimer: You dont have to study insane hours, just have quality hours and be disciplined and consistent. You absolutely need to sacrifice ~15 hours a week of your free time to study instead. Its worth it. However i think getting tied to a specific number of hours just leads to a toxic relationship with studying.
Build up your confidence with shorter 30-75min sessions that are focused. I heavily value building confidence, instead of long hours where your accuracy drops, you arent retaining new information, and all you remember the next day is that you missed a bunch of problems the night before. That hurts your confidence and spirit as opposed to helping it.
When i got my 'Passed' on the NCEEs website i ran into the bathroom and kissed my fiancé while she was taking a poop. Thats the kind of excitement it will give you. Enjoy.
Question for Audience: What personality traits are unique (or reoccurring) with electrical engineers you've met?

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@jonathanwalton9205 2 месяца назад

I appreciate hearing your experience here. I’m gearing up to take the exam in about a month and a half, and that’s the timeframe I’m giving to study for this one. I feel confident going into it with my experience and with what I do for work, and it’s helpful to hear how honest you are about it.

@zanejackson8532 Месяц назад

You got this!

@REG3305 3 месяца назад

Thank you for this video. You are correct, there are not many videos about the actual exam.

@ShiceTea 3 месяца назад

Thanks for taking the time to post this. Love hearing this real and raw perspective. Congratulations man.

@zanejackson8532 3 месяца назад

thanks i appreciate that.

@johnnymysto 9 месяцев назад

Great video! I appreciate your frankness and info about what your personal experience was. I was planning to sign up for Zach Stone's course this week, and now I'm even more convinced that it will be the best prep course for me. Thank you for sharing!!

@LiaAnderson-g4i 5 месяцев назад

Hi! Been using Zach's since January and I take my test in May. I wanted to give myself enough time to study. I have made it through all the prep materials, all the previously recorded lectures, quizzes, handouts, etc. and am now working my way through the practice exam generator questions. I would consider myself an anxious test taker, I have been my whole life. I have been consistently getting 40% on the practice exam questions. But when I view the solutions I have an “ah ha” moment and know I can usually make my way through the problem after discovering the first step. I’m not sure if i’m just not grasping the concepts well enough or am letting my nerves get the best of me during the questions. During the recorded lectures and quizzes I did fairly well and followed along pretty well.

@zanejackson8532 4 месяца назад

Good Luck!

@ryanwallace4204 4 месяца назад

Thanks a lot Zane! I also graduated from Sac State and I'm studying for the Power PE. I like you mentioned about the NEC, it's the most challenging to attempt to learn, so far for me.

@ryanwallace4204 4 месяца назад

Did you have any specific advice regarding the NEC? Since it's a big part of the test and even Zach's sections are not extensive on it, how did you become more familiar with it? Just perusing it every so often??

@Genero222 4 месяца назад

Appreciate the video. Taking my exam next week. I clicked on your profile and saw you’re also a WoW player. Two things in common! Hopefully I parse well

@zanejackson8532 4 месяца назад

Thats awesome haha, dont forget to get world buffs before going in there xD! Good luck!

@zanejackson8532 4 месяца назад

Howd it go?

@Genero222 4 месяца назад

@@zanejackson8532 just got my results this morning and I passed. I’d give my exam prep experience an 8/10 - learned a good bit and refreshed some concepts I hadn’t seen in a while. My actual exam experience was different than yours. I’d give my exam experience a 4/10. I walked out of there thinking, ‘why’d I even bring my calculator?’ It felt like there weren’t any power calculations and seemed very different than the NCEES practice exam. I felt disappointed cause the computation problems are my forte and there weren’t many of them. I studied about 60 hours in the 2-3 weeks before which I recognize is well under recommended amounts. I thought the reference interface was fine, but I agree with you that when you have a subsection that is 40 pages long and need to navigate to both ends, it’s annoying. I think it should give you page numbers for manual navigation and set a minimum character limit in the search function. I accidentally searched a single character and thought it was going to crash. I’m glad it’s over with. Thanks for following up and sharing your experience!

@Genero222 4 месяца назад

@@zanejackson8532 I passed!

@Genero222 4 месяца назад

I passed! I tried responding to this comment two times and it hasn’t been showing up for some reason.

@sukhwindersingh-lf7bm 3 месяца назад

Congratulations @Zane, Can you share your source of preparation?

@dunnymurt324 4 дня назад

Passed the FE recently, do you think its best to study for PE right after graduation? If you take it right away its easier to maintain study habits out of college but your knowledge from the field isnt as deep. What do you recommend?

@zanejackson8532 4 дня назад

Personally i think that may result in fatigue, and would be harder; that in mind everyone's post college job is different. If your job requires you to do some amount of power calcs, voltage drop, and frequently requires NEC usage than id recommend just taking your job seriously and learning all you can in field for a while. The older Engineers and Electricians can teach you alot of the WHY behind NEC code sections that are cryptic to follow and harder to fully grasp. Expand your overall electrical knowledge and continue to make those mental connections to things you learned in college so it commits to memory. Id recommend taking your test closer to your 2-Yr post FE mark. Yes you can take it earlier, but honestly 10-20 of the PE questions i didnt learn from school, i learned in field prior to studying for the PE. If i had tried to learn those things through study material and not in field i might not grasp the WHY enough to get correct answers on the test when the verbiage is intentionally full of red herrings. In other words i think the PE would be harder right after the FE because your overall knowledge isn't as big as it will be ~2yrs into your career.

@zanejackson8532 4 дня назад

Also, great work applying yourself and getting the FE done. Stay focused and you will continue to succeed!

@dunnymurt324 2 дня назад

@@zanejackson8532 I see, I may be leaning more towards waiting now after a couple of years like you said. Thank you for the kind words and guidance.

@abumaryama6340 8 месяцев назад

Was it harder than the NCEES practice exam in your opinion?

@zanejackson8532 8 месяцев назад

Honestly it was very comparable to the practice exam. What makes it difficult is the ineffective code book window, and the PE seems to give more information than you need for most problems. Categorize the problem, then solve.

@abumaryama6340 8 месяцев назад

Thanks