Engineers Honest Review of SOPE Civil PE Exam Review Guides and Practice Exam 2023 Edition

[@Kestava_Engineering]

use "KESTAVA100" to get $100 off ANYTHING the School of PE has to offer! LETS GO TEAM!

[@andrewjacobucci6789]

Hi Rich, thank you for doing this channel. I took the PE exam for the first time in December and failed, mostly because I didn’t have a study plan. I went back to the drawing board and incorporated your videos into my studying. Took the exam again last week and found out today I passed. I cannot thank you enough. Also, I thought you looked familiar and realized you were a year ahead of me in school. Go UMass!!

[@Kestava_Engineering]

awesome to hear you knocked it out! and hell yeah go U!

[@melatasfaw2276]

I did both AEI and School of PE for structural depth for CBT. AEI is HANDS DOWN better than the school of PE for the structural depth portion. I passed on my first try and AEI contributed to it big time!

[@Jeff29E6]

AEI, in my opinion, is the best for Structural (regardless if it is Civil PE or the SE).

[@Kestava_Engineering]

I need to get my hands on some AEI material and check it out! I have heard the same thing

[@JaaMizzou22]

Hi Rich, congrats on 15k. It was at 14.9 yesterday. What writing tablet do you use? Does it reproduce the screen on the tablet?

[@Kestava_Engineering]

thank you! we just crossed 15k engineers! I use a Lenovo portable touch screen for all my videos.

[@oleopathic]

Richard, would you please advise me ? I've failed civil PE 3 times and now preparing for the 4th time. How are you dealing with failure, namely with the SE? Where do you find inspiration? How do you keep going ? I see that you're retaking SE for 2nd time ? How many attempts did you make for the PE? Thank you.

[@sudqiamad958]

Hi Kestava,,, do we have to buy both volumes for any discipline? Is it one for questions and the other is for answers?

[@Kestava_Engineering]

volume 1 is the "breath" portion and volume 2 is the "depth" section and you would buy the one that relates to the exam type you are taking... traffic, environmental, structural...etc

[@zondamontgomery6297]

Hey man where are you. We miss the viedoes

[@Kestava_Engineering]

Im back! working on a video as we speak and then will be back to my weekly videos! I was studying for my SE exam for the past few months!

[@zondamontgomery6297]

Awesome we@@Kestava_Engineering

[@zondamontgomery6297]

Miss being in the auditorium. Jose is ready

[@jackedtoph5581]

Hi Kestävä, your videos really helped me when studying for the California Civil Structural PE Exam earlier this year. I'm happy to say I passed it on my first try! I just got approved to take the state specific seismic and survey exams and was wondering if you had any advice on studying for those?

[@Kestava_Engineering]

thank you for the contribution, it means a lot! So pumped you passed! listen to my latest video where I discuss this exact topic with an engineer that just took the exam!

[@denfl6605]

I honestly think it doesn't really matter what class you take for a PE Civil Exam as long as you actually do the class, follow the recommended study schedules, and solve all the problems they are asking to solve. PE Civil exam is not a hard exam with high passing rates, especially compared to SE exam.

[@Kestava_Engineering]

I hear you! its easy to study material we know, its difficult to acknowledge material we do not and attack it head on.

[@oleopathic]

Disagree. Official NCEES statistics leave out a lot of details in those pass-rate tables.

[@oleopathic]

​@@Kestava_Engineeringwhat to do about it, Rich ?

[@denfl6605]

@@oleopathic disagree with what? That PE Civil exam is actually not hard? I know plenty of good str engineers who didn’t pass SE. I don’t know a single good engineer who didn’t pass PE. PE is a bare minimum. It’s like learning multiplication table with single digits in math. SE requires extra ordinary knowledge, skills, ability to work very fast in a stressful environment. That’s like comparing middle school math class to differential equations at college. NCEES statistics for passing rates will somewhat support this statement. 65% of EITs pass PE. Probably 25% of those who didn’t pass didn’t study enough. I met lots of people who just tried the exam without studying. And only remaining 10% studied and didn’t pass. Most people taking SE have PE. Out of these PEs, only 25-30% will pass SE. That’s like 16% of original population of EITs.

[@elsayedmohamed2963]

When did you graduate bro??

[@Kestava_Engineering]

2014!

[@rajabkhan6613]

Hello everyone here I just want to know what is PE and SE exam ? I’m new about it and I don’t know anything so I want to know everything about them from basic ?

[@Kestava_Engineering]

PE = professional engineering exam. you need to pass this to get your professional PE license in the US. SE = structural engineering exam. you need to pass this in order to get your structural engineering license in the US.

[@rajabkhan6613]

@@Kestava_Engineering okay Thank you. Are they only for US?

[@elshafeiyousri9268]

With your permission, I want a complete project for designing a wooden building, architectural and structural, and structural calculations, so I can take it as a reference for studying and working.