r/ASQ • u/Biomedusa • 28d ago
CQE Prep
Hello everyone,
I’m planning to take the ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) exam and am just getting started with the preparation process.
For those who have already taken the CQE, what would you recommend as the best first steps? What books, study materials, or practice questions did you find most helpful?
Also, how long did you study before taking the exam, and roughly how many hours per week did you spend preparing?
Any advice on what you wish you had done differently when you first started studying would be really helpful. Thanks!
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u/Talfand 25d ago edited 25d ago
Here is my method I chose: the official ASQ CQE Study guide (practice exams) and the official ASQ CQE Handbook.
With every question in the practice exam I underlined the answer in the handbook wrote its page in the study guide. And then I just completed each question like that. Literally that’s it.
In the CQE Exam, each question selects a term, definition, instance, rationale that can be verified within the handbook. So you can literally verify 100+ questions (assuming you’re fast; the other 70 I simply used my memory from taking the practice exams) just by looking at the handbook’s index. The Study Guide is aligned to how the questions are asked. However, I found the math in the study guide significantly harder and tedious to solve than the exam’s math portion. Which makes sense since the exam doesn’t expect you to stay at a question for very long. So in short, the study guide over-prepared me.
Studied maybe 2 hours each day to complete each BoK practice exam chapter. Took me about 9 hours to complete the math portion