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Principles and Practice of Engineering: Civil Engineering, Sample Questions and Solutions

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Based on a co-worker's recommendation, I used this helpful book in preparation for the Fall 2001 PE Exam. The best feature of this book is that it mirrors the layout and content of the actual exam better than any other resource I encountered. The 120 questions are broken into six categories, and each question has solutions A to D. The first section includes 20 general problems that all civil engineering examinees will face in the morning half of the test. The five other sections cover the afternoon half of the exam with specific questions for the environmental, geotechnical, structural, transportation and water resources subgenres. Sample answer sheets appear in an appendix. Many of the problems include enough blank space for computations, making the completed problems useful for a final review a few days before the exam. The solutions in the back are complete and clear.
The cover price is high but hopefully transferable to an expense account. This book complements the Lindeburg Civil Engineering Reference Manual package and is strongly recommended for all civil engineering PE candidates. Mine is labeled `Revision 1' and was published in 2000, so I'm not sure if the PE exam has changed significantly since then. A friend of mine found this book useful for the Fall 2004 test.

This book best mirrors the type and layout of the PE exam questions. Solve every problem in it, then document your solutions ("How did I solve that type of problem"). This book is far more realistic in difficulty and layout than the "6 Minute" books. Get this book first, do the problems in it, then decide what other books you need.

This book most closely matched the actual questions on the PE exam, in terms of difficult and amount of time required to solve. It was an excellent tool during my exam preparation in Spring 2006.

Since it provides afternoon session questions in all of the sub-categories, you have the opportunity to try a few different areas and confirm which one is your strongest before the day of the test. My only complaint is that I wish it were longer - I would have liked twice as many problems!

Helped me pass... on my 2nd try... but still a very VERY useful way to study!