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发帖数: 191 | 1 我在纽约上班，准备考加州SE，不知有考过SE的同学能否帮忙做推荐人？拜信先.... | j***h
发帖数: 4412 | 2 发信人: jeffh (Jeffh), 信区: CivilEngineering
标 题: Re: Can Anyone Recommend Any Study Material for SE Exam?
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Oct 14 13:05:47 2011, 美东)
The SE exam is a fixed passing rate exam depending on the state you take the
exam. The passing rate for April 2011 SE exam is 27%: http://www.ncees.org/Exams/SE_exam.php.
By the way, just a friendly reminder, before California eliminates its use
of
the state-specific SE exam, CA SE test is not just a simple test. The board
of CA is very serious about this test. The seismic-resisting design in CA
is totally different from those seismic-resisting designs in east coast and
China. In addition, the CA SE test is a speeding test. If you are not well
prepared, usually it is hard to finish even 60% of the questions in time.
So far, for those out-of-state exam takers, the pass rate is pretty low.
For those who did not have work experience in CA, the only one I know is one
of my friend, a Ph.D. whose dissertation was Experimental and Analytical
Research of a seismic-resisting connection. It saved him lots of time in
preparing the seismic-resisting connection design for the CA SE test.
In short, the best way to pass the national 16-hour Structural exam is to
chose a state where no seismic-and/or-high-wind-resisting designs are
required, in addition to no heavy snow load calculation required. So that
you could compete with those local engineers who have very limit experience
in seismic-and/or-high-wind-resisting designs, in addition to heavy snow
load calculation, to ensure that you could use less time to prepare the SE
exam, but still within the 27% to 35% lucky guys of the exam takers in the
state in that year you take your exam.
http://www.ncees.org/Exams/SE_exam.php
SE pass rate
The pass rate is from the April 2011 exam administration. It reflects the
percentage of candidates, among those attempting both SE exam components,
who attained acceptable results on both components.
Exam First-time takers Repeat takers
SE 27% n/a
Reporting scores
SE exam results are typically released to the licensing boards 10–12 weeks
after the exam. Depending on your state, you will be notified of your exam
result either online through your My NCEES account or via postal mail from
your state licensing board.
Each candidate will receive a component result for the component(s)
attempted. The result will reflect the candidate's performance on both the
morning and afternoon sections; the candidate's combined performance on both
sections must demonstrate minimum competency.
Candidates who do not attain an acceptable result on a component will
receive diagnostic reports for the morning and afternoon sections of that
component. These diagnostic reports will indicate subject areas of relative
strength and weakness.
SE exam
SE exam specifications
Friday morning breadth—vertical forces (with design standards)
Friday afternoon depth—vertical forces (with design standards)
Saturday morning breadth—lateral forces (with design standards)
Saturday afternoon depth—lateral forces (with design standards)
A two-day exam with separate, 8-hour components
The new, 16-hour SE exam was first offered in April 2011, replacing the
separate Structural I and II exams. The new SE exam is a breadth and depth
exam offered in two components on successive days. The 8-hour Vertical
Forces (Gravity/Other) and Incidental Lateral component is offered only on
Friday and focuses on gravity loads and lateral earth pressures. The 8-hour
Lateral Forces (Wind/Earthquake) component is offered only on Saturday and
focuses on wind/earthquake loads.
Each component of the SE exam has a breadth (morning) module and a depth (
afternoon) module. Examinees must take the breadth module of each component
and one of the two depth modules in each component.
Breadth modules (morning sessions): These modules contain questions covering
a comprehensive range of structural engineering topics. All questions are
multiple-choice.
Depth modules (afternoon sessions): These modules focus more closely on a
single area of practice in structural engineering. Examinees must choose
either buildings or bridges. Examinees must work the same topic area on both
components. That is, if buildings is the topic area chosen in the Vertical
Forces component, then buildings must be the topic area chosen in the
Lateral Forces component. All questions are constructed response (essay).
What is required to pass?
Examinees must obtain acceptable results on both 8-hour components. They are
not required to obtain acceptable results on both components in a single
exam administration period—a candidate can sit for and obtain acceptable
results on one component one year and then sit for and obtain acceptable
results on the second component at a later date. Some state boards may
impose a five year window for obtaining acceptable results on both
components.
Reference materials
The SE exam is an open-book exam. You are allowed to bring reference
materials to the exam, provided they are bound and remain bound during the
exam. Loose paper may be bound with ring binders, brads, plastic snap
binders, spiral-bound notebooks, and screw posts—but not with staples.
Sticky notes and flags are permitted only when they remain attached to book
pages.
Scoring
The morning sections of both components, which consist of multiple-choice
items, are machine graded. A percentage of answer sheets are manually
verified to ensure accuracy. The afternoon sections of both components
consist of constructed response (essay) items; these responses are graded by
teams of subject matter experts using an agreed-upon solution and scoring
plan. Each response is graded by two subject matter experts; a third grader
is used when needed.
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