2012 October PE Exam

[Bigwiggz]

Hello Everybody, I just took the Oct 2012 PE exam with the HVAC/Refrigeration Depth and I thought the afternoon section was HARD!!!! I know I missed at least 13 out of 40 questions in the afternoon.

Did any of you happen to take the Oct 2012 PE Exam with the HVAC/Refrigeration Depth?

If so, how did you make out?

 

[MiketheEngineer]

Scores are based on curve - you may have passed???

 

[Bigwiggz]

I have been reading in the boards and it is said that if you get 56/80 then you will most likely pass. I sure hope that that is the case. I only have to wait 10 weeks before I hear an answer.

 

[zdas04]

For the next 10 weeks STAY THE HELL OFF PPI.COM. I so wish someone had told me that when I took the test. Nothing good came from daily reviews of people agonizing over question 22 and others saying stupid things like "56/80 is always passing" when the passing score changes for every test. There are always a number of questions that are deemed to be ambiguous and are thrown out. A number of questions that turn out to have two valid answers and are rescored. The remainder is then bent, folded, spindled, and mutilated until a passing score is finally determined. The process is pretty awful at NCESS, and the participants in ppi.com (and the other PE boards) will always make crap up in the total absence of information.

Mark your calendar for February 1, 2013 to go back to ppi.com and see if you should have gotten your results yet (people will start posting "I got my results" threads sometime late in January), the NCESS results go to all the states at the same time, but each state has the ability/obligation? to review the results for their state and they all take their own sweet time to accomplish that review. As I understand it, the passing score from NCESS is just a guideline and the states can adjust it up or down (the year I took it there were two guys going back and forth on ppi.com about a score in one state being passing and a (slightly higher) score in another state being failing, I got bored with the whole discussion before there was any resolution and they both might have been lying, a lot of that goes on at ppi.com).

David Simpson, PE
MuleShoe Engineering

"Belief" is the acceptance of an hypotheses in the absence of data.
"Prejudice" is having an opinion not supported by the preponderance of the data.
"Knowledge" is only found through the accumulation and analysis of data.

 

[Bigwiggz]

Your right! Good point I will fight the urge not to go on PPI or the other boards. But that 10 week wait is gruesome. Oh well. It is what it is.

 

[msquared48]

If you think the waiting is bad, just try to open the email when you get it...

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering

http://mmcengineering.tripod.com

 

[jistre]

I opened my letter standing right in the middle of the street because that's where I was when I saw that it had arrived. It didn't matter what was coming down the street, I wasn't going to wait any longer to find out the results. That whole process is pretty terrible, but it's all worth it when you get to read the letter telling you that you've succeeded and have a license.

That being said, I'm pretty sure that exam and the waiting shortened my life. That's the longest 8 hours and ten weeks that I've ever experienced.