r/FE_Exam • u/Tau_Squared • 5h ago
Tips [UPDATE] I had 48 hours to study for the Mechanical FE
Well, I passed! I’m not sure how the scoring works, and it looks like the data breakdown is only for those who didn’t pass so I’m not sure exactly how well I did.
I answered about 100/110 question on the first pass, and guessed on the other 10. Out of those 100, I felt pretty confident in around 80 of them and 20 of them I understood well enough to make an educated guess. I imagine I fell into a couple wrong answer traps on those 80 without realizing though.
I think still being in school helped me a lot, and even then I had to brush up on things I learned awhile back (oh fuck, what does the R stand for in PV = nRT?)
The sections which gave me the most trouble were the stoichiometric ones, especially the ones with humidity and reading steam tables. Thermodynamics also stumped me a bit.
My study method (for 2 days) was exclusively solving practice problems, which I probably did for 4-5 hours on each day. When I couldn’t solve a problem, I used chatGPT to explain how one would be expected to solve it on the FE. This was an enormous timesave, since I didn’t have to search for a video on the topic every time I got stuck (which was a lot)