Principles and Practice of Engineering exam: Difference between revisions

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Exams are offered twice a year, once in April and once in October, and are discipline-specific.<ref>[http://www.ncees.org/Exams/Pages/Exam_schedule.php/] NCEES; Exam Schedule</ref> With the exception of the Structural exam, each exam is eight hours long, consisting of two 4-hour sessions administered in a single day with a lunch break. There are 40 multiple-choice questions per session. Several disciplines require a common morning breadth exam which broadly covers the discipline and then a more detailed afternoon depth exam where the test taker selects a more detailed area of the discipline. Other disciplines essentially have morning and afternoon breadth exams.<ref name=format>[http://www.ncees.org/Exams/PE_exam.php] Exam formats</ref>

The Structural exam is 16 hours long and administered over two days, with two 4-hour sessions and a lunch break per day. Morning breadth sessions consist of 40 multiple-choice questions, while the afternoon depth sessions require essay responses. An examinee must earn a passing score on both days' exams in order to pass overall, but need not obtain those scores during the same administration of the exam. In computer-based test (CBT) examinees are given access to on-screen reference manuals but for non CBT exams examinees are allowed to carry reference manuals, codes and spirally binded documents.{{cn|date=September 2021}}

NCEES began the process of transitioning exams to computer-based testing (CBT) in 2011. NCEES has successfully converted some of the exams and all other NCEES exams are currently in the conversion process and scheduled to launch in computer-based format between now and 2024. Some CBT exams are administered year-round. Other CBT exams that have a smaller examinee population use a different high-stakes testing model and are administered on a single day each year.

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*Structural<ref name="NCEES PE">{{cite web|title=NCEES: PE Exam|url=http://ncees.org/exams/pe-exam/|website=NCEES|publisher=National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying|accessdate=17 November 2014}}</ref>(with design standards for the 2015 exams)

Unlike the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam, outside reference sources are allowed for the PE Exam. The general rule is that any such materials must be in some sort of permanent binding (book, three-ring, spiral, etc.); loose papers and notes are prohibited. No writing tools or scratch paper may be brought in, and only calculators specifically approved by NCEES may be used.{{cn|date=September 2021}} Examinees are provided with mechanical pencils and may use the test booklet as scratch paper for solving problems.

==Pass rates==