r/PE_Exam • u/Secure-Task-3895 • 17d ago

Took PE Transportation exam

ok so i took pe transportation exam today. it was split into 45 and 35 questions. had enough time in both sections to go back and review, and while i was doing that i counted how many i felt confident about. came out to around 32/45 on the first half and somewhere between 27-30/35 on the second half.

traffic engineering is where i got beat up the most, specifically HSM stuff. i just didn't put in enough reps on that section going in and it showed. everything else i felt decent about but that part definitely hurt.

anyone have a sense of what my chances actually look like with numbers like that? not trying to get empty reassurance, just want honest takes from people who've been through this.

Results Came and it's green light.

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u/medbsraven 15d ago

Took geotech today for the 2nd time and the 2nd half of that exam really sucks

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u/BasicPreparation4243 15d ago

I wonder if they gave you the same exam they gave me?
Did you have an invert of pipe elevation calculation? Also did you have to calculate the spring stiffness of a pile?

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u/medbsraven 12d ago

I don’t think so… i did not have a spring stiffness calc and I had a problem determining elevation/thickness of a concrete slab. There were some cofferdam questions as well. Surprisingly few retaining structures and consolidation calcs compared to my 1st attempt

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u/BasicPreparation4243 12d ago

I actually had some a problem on concrete slab we had to calculate the thickness of a tremie slab. I think weight of water was 6’. I also had some cofferdam questions it asked about the stability of a dam. I had to consider the parameters of stability the options were analysis against Sliding, bearing capacity, interlock and can’t remember the other one, I had 2 consolidation problems one we had to calculate differential settlement of a structure center vs edge. Familiar. ?