FE Exam Tips

When working full time and supporting a family, finding the time to study for the FE exam can be really difficult. This does not mean it’s not possible. In fact, this challenge is an important part of your FE preparation that you will overcome. Given your life circumstances, you can make the necessary adjustments that…

The FE exam is always changing. I know when I took my FE exam in 2017, the structure of the exam was not how it is today. As of 2023, the NCEES is purposefully designing this exam to not only test our traditional problem solving where we use equations to arrive at the final answer….

FE Exam Anxiety. It’s very real for a lot of student trying to pass their FE exam. Worse, it’s something we often feel hopeless about after falling into that same anxiety loop time after time resulting in poor exam day performance. First of all, So, here’s your first reminder: Accept your anxiety. What’s so awful…

Let’s talk about problem solving. To pass this FE exam, you are required to decide on your own how to approach each problem. For the most part, all of us are predisposed to apply different problem-solving strategies after going through extensive undergraduate engineering courses. But here’s a question I have for you today: Are your…

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This may be the first time taking the FE exam and you feel nervous. You feel scared. Or maybe, you are still trying to pass your FE exam and after failing multiple times. Simply put, this exam is putting a huge burden on you. It’s come to a point where you have developed a real…

So you’re excited to start your FE exam preparation. You gathered all the right resources. You have an NCEES FE exam approved Calculator. You have the latest NCEES FE Handbook 10.1. You are ready to study! You are committed to studying. But somehow your studying isn’t going as you expected. You can’t focus You can’t…

Your FE exam preparation is not just about learning the material, it is also about your approach or test taking strategy employed on exam day. So how are you supposed to build your understanding and develop the right test taking strategy in a way to ensure you are passing the FE exam? Simply put: Practice,…

So, what’s the FE exam really testing? What are the NCEES people trying to test when creating these exams? Are they trying to test the subject matter or maybe there’s something more they’re looking for?   I think this FE exam is designed to test more of our knowledge of the subject matter and our ability…

Last week, I had a discussion with Naudia about her overall FE exam preparation after passing the FE exam. She passed the FE exam but it was definitely not easy for her. She has been out of school for 20 years. Got her degree in Electrical engineering. On top of that, she is working full-time…