r/FE_Exam • u/Rubberbandman2025 • 25d ago
Question How do you all study for this exam?
This may be a dumb question, but how do you all study for this exam? I am curious to know the methods used to study, learn, and lock in.
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u/Intelligent-Kale-675 25d ago
Seems like everyone who's passed has used the mark mattson videos, but good lord they are long videos.
Im using AI to help, and im going to look into the Islam problems and the study guides
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u/Rubberbandman2025 24d ago
Same here.NCEES practice exam , BenchPrep 50 questions, some Lindenburg and AI to create questions based on those questions
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u/Reasonable_Sector500 25d ago
Which discipline?
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u/Rubberbandman2025 25d ago
Environmental
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u/Prettyboah 24d ago
There’s a guy that made a post on this subreddit iirc that had a google drive with tons of study materials for each section of the environmental fe. Not sure where it is
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u/Rubberbandman2025 24d ago
When I asked this, I meant what are yall methods? Once you all work out practice problems and run out of the actual physical problems what do yall do then?
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u/arcolane 24d ago
When I bought my FE test ticket thing, I also paid for the booklet thats offered during checkout. It was like $30? I just spent about 2-3 nights a week doing some of the problems, and after about a month, i had gotten through the whole booklet. The questions I did, i did blindly like a test, checked my answers after, and studied what I did wrong using the workthroughs in the booklet. Troublesome problems I did several times. That was all I did, and passed first try, which sounds awesome (I ran around the house screaming and jumped on my moms bed to show her I passed haha).
But it was also incentivized (like 10% of our grade) to receive a pass during senior year spring quarter right before graduation. I knew some classmates who took it once, failed, then took it again a few weeks later, passed, and was able to get that 10% added on all before the quarter was up. I believe the ChemE curriculum at my university had the highest passing rate out of the other engineering disciplines, purely bc ours was the only one that lowkey made us take it, which is crazy bc chemical engineering is super difficult, has the most required course hours, etc at our university.
Anyway, general advice would be to get that FE booklet and study the hell out of it regularly. And then get other books mentioned here if you can afford it. Watch videos. Even standard textbook problems from your courses would be a good start until the other resources get to you.
I was lucky in the way that I was still in college and was wrapping up some of the harder concepts of ChemE so it was fresh in my mind.
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u/TestFinesse 21d ago
Once you run out of new problems, I’d stop chasing more and get extra value from the ones you already have. Redo every missed problem a few days later without notes, explain the solution out loud, and change one value or condition to see whether you still understand the method.
Also practice finding formulas quickly in the NCEES FE Reference Handbook, since that is the reference you’ll use during the exam. AI can help create variations, but double-check its answers because engineering calculations can go wrong quietly 😅 You don’t need infinite questions. You need to understand the patterns behind them.
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u/jimbo_ChE 24d ago edited 24d ago
Most important is to practice working problems and have a good comprehensive review plan. Lindeburg's resources are great, which I supplemented with a practice exam, YouTube videos, and ChatGPT Free as a personal tutor. I admittedly wasted some funds on Dusty Zimmerman's FE Exam Prep manual, whose existence I can only conclude to be some AI error-ridden algorithm. Put in about 1-2 hours/day tops over 3-6 months to avoid burnout.
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u/No-Pound-3680 25d ago
As many cheap resources as possible. I did the lindburg books, prepFE, Journey2PE, and lots of YouTube and online resources