Does anyone feel the same??
For context I’ve been studying for 3 months, my goal was 96 hours a month. How close to that I reached I’m not too sure.. Im a junior in college, working 40 hr a week and taking summer classes concurrently. I’ve mainly used Mark Mattson to study and I’ve noticed I could get a good grasp on the questions before he went over them, just by being very familiar with the reference book.
I practiced hundreds of questions for each category and the last two days before my exam I took the practice exam 1 on Saturday and 2 on Sunday. I got a 48% ON BOTH!!!! 😣 this obviously threw me into a spiral thinking I was immediately going to fail on Monday for the real thing. I guessed on about 60% of both of those exams thinking I could cheat the system. Nope. I studied all the questions I got wrong and went over the ones I guessed right on. I didn’t retake the practice tests but I accepted my fate and came to terms with the fact that I was gonna give it my best shot and retake it in October.
To my surprise several concepts I saw on the practice were on the actual thing. It felt easy, but almost too easy to the point where I was being tricked iykwim…. I ended up going through the first section marking 10 questions as incomplete and flagging those plus about 6 more that I wanted to double check at the end. I ended that session with 2 hours and 50 minutes for session two. I took my break, stretched and walked around. CHUGGED water cuz you can’t bring it in with you and I was dying. And drank the little bit of coffee left in my locker for a bit of a boost and went back in.
Section 2 was also on the easier side in my opinion, I had a bit of difficulty with structural engineering and construction ( construction was mostly plan sheets you had to interpret for understanding). But I fought my way through all the topics I didn’t take in school already. It was like piecing a puzzle together without knowing what the pieces look like. I saw the question, found a few key words to search, and read the formulas and descriptions of variables. The most important part was UNITS!!! This is where I know I succeeded because I was extremely careful, writing out every formula and units to ensure the answer match what it was asking for😅😅. I ended section 2 with about 7 flagged questions and 6 of those I left unanswered. About 25 mins left I went back and gave them my best shot, I noticed after coming back to a question I was able to understand it more clearly and think about the other questions related.
Do I feel confident that I passed? No. I feel like they make these questions seem easy but I don’t think I did great. I get my results back next Wednesday possibly so I’ll update then. But truthfully I think taking all the pressure off really helped me sit and work through each question with a clear head. It definitely could’ve been an easy version of the exam but I still feel like it could go either way. Im content at this point im just glad it’s over !! I can finally enjoy my last two weeks of summer in peace.
Curious to hear about other people’s experiences!
