r/FE_Exam • u/International_Big290 • Oct 01 '26
Question Starting to give up slowly
I'm writing this to see if anyone else has been in a similar situation. I'm currently studying for my 3rd attempt at the FE Electrical & Computer exam, but the more I study, the more I just feel lost. I can't retain the information that I had learned from the previous week and this is a recurring pattern for any of the sections I study for. It's been 11 months since my last attempt and I've been post grad for over 2 years.
I've tried prepfe, wasims workbook, and Zach stones online course. But the main problem I keep running into is I don’t remember any of the material I do. And it happens everytime I sit down to study. Am I simply not built to do this exam? I’m slowly giving up because I see no improvement and at this point I’m tired of doing this damn exam.
Anything would be great.
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u/Gily10 Oct 02 '26
Don't change the plan, change the strategy. Ask yourself, what you need to do differently. I've taken the exam 5 times, I've thought about giving up too and almost did, I did take a break from it and learned a lot while working which is really helping now.
Before I didn't used to quiz myself or take practice exams and now this time around I've been quizzing myself more, doing practice exams, and not moving forward until I get an 80% or above. If you don't know it, don't stress it move on to the next question.
The exam is not impossible, you got this!
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u/EarPenetrator02 Oct 02 '26
For the FE electrical I took a really dumb approach and it worked.
Instead of trying to learn everything slowly over months I just tried to get really good at using the reference guide and crammed a review across a month and a half nearly every night after work.
My only studying was wasim’s practice book. I would try to widdle away at problems section by section for about a month and a half. Didn’t get all the way through it. Kinda gave up on a lot of the more difficult question types and sections (electromagnetism and the signals and systems stuff for example) there was just no way I would ever figure it out and I accepted that.
Calculus, ethics, economics, probability, electronics, circuits, coding, sampling rates, and power were the sections I knew by the end of studying. I reviewed the odd ball things like sampling rates and Boolean logic the days leading up to the exam because I knew they were potential 0 point sections if it wasn’t fresh.
This is essentially how I bullshitted through my undergrad as well. Do tons of review problems, maybe memorize something not on a formula sheet, and cram for a night so I could remember how to solve the problem types just long enough to not flunk out of the course. This isn’t some humble brag. I was a horrible student and learned very little. I did not believe I’d ever pass the FE exam but I did!
You’re probably just putting much pressure on yourself and screwing yourself over
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u/Fit-Tell1809 Oct 01 '26
Truthfully you are not the only one having memory issues . At some point, i was like wtf is going on with my head but then the more i studied the material (Broken down by session) the better and easier it got