After 8 years out of college, I’m happy to share that I passed the FE Civil exam!

The resources that helped me the most were:

• Islam 800 Problems
• NCEES Practice Exams
• Mark Mattson (MM) videos

A big thank you to everyone in this group. Reading your experiences, tips, and encouragement throughout my preparation made a real difference.

If you're still preparing, keep going—you can absolutely do it. Good luck to everyone taking the exam!

Passed after studying for a month (mainly weekends). I graduated in December 2025 so a good chunk of the content was still pretty fresh. Let me know if you have any questions or DM me for advice! Happy to help!

So I just got my results, passed on my first attempt.
Only studied using the NCEES practice exams.
Got super familiar with the reference book and utilized that for almost everything.
Did a total of about 7-8 hrs of effective studying the 4 days leading up to exam.

Wouldn't recommend this strategy unless you very recently graduated. It cut my average question response time down by over 2 minutes and allowed me to use that extra time to go over questions I wasn't as confident on.

I would highly highly recommend to get familiar with the reference book.
Flagged questions where I wasnt able to answer in under 1 minute and circled back at the end of each module.
On questions where I had no idea what to do, I never guessed the highest number, or the lowest, went with gut on determining between those too.
Graduated in early may and started work late may, took exam on an off day.

I am happy to share that I passed my FE Electrical exam on my first attempt. I am an international graduate from India, and after being away from school for almost 15 years while working a labour job for the last 4–5 years, I decided to restart my engineering journey. I completed Wasim Asghar's full FE Electrical course and solved all 700 problems from Study Guide 3. His teaching style, concept explanations, and exam-focused approach gave me the confidence to succeed. When I entered the exam, I felt well prepared because of the strong foundation built through the course. Thank you to this community and Wasim for the support!

I Passed the FE exam first attempt and here is my full experience:

I am in my senior year of Mechanical engineering with only one semester left so I basically have finished all the core ME courses and everything is still fresh in my mind. I am an average ME student who just puts in the effort the week of any school exam. For the FE, I started preparing about 2 months before the test. I would study everyday for 3-5 on weekdays, and 8-10 on weekends.

Main source of study: Islam FE mechanical (This is a 750 questions book that covers all the chapters and in good order and sequence which will help you connect everything together as the questions will just build up on the previous questions)

Secondary Source of study: FE interactive website ($20 subscription I only recommend it in the last month of studying) - (This is a good source for extra daily practice questions, I recommend utilizing this source only after you have gone through most chapters from the Islam 750 book and just need the extra FE style questions practice)

Third source of study: Practice Exams. I Purchased the two practice exams from NCEES website, and I had couple more old practice exams. Started with those practice exams about a week or two from the exam date and understood all the questions which was very helpful on the exam day.

Exam day: I started going through the test one question after the another, and I think I flagged about 50 questions in total. My specific exam was so much harder than the practice exams or any other kind of practice I had in general. I had to guess on so many problems and when I left from the exam I felt like I was hit by a truck. I genuinely thought I failed the test and that I have to take it again. But I guess if you knew at least 40-50 questions on the test (which I did) then the rest will be taken care of by guessing. you would just need 15-20 lucky guesses to secure 60 correct questions which I personally believe is the passing score (I might be wrong, but I have never seen anyone with 60% or more failing the test).

My advice: On the exam, don't waste time getting stuck on one problem, solve what you know, flag what you don't know, by the end go back to the flagged ones and make an educated guess. If you have no idea at all then pick a letter and stick to it for consistency. For me I picked the letter B for any of the questions that I had absolutely no idea how to solve. That's what worked for me and I hope this helps those preparing to take theirs.

I studied few weeks for my FE ECE exam. It’s been several year out of college. I was sad to see the result. I did prepare for the exam but while giving exam I realized the questions were a lot harder than I anticipated. Need some advice and motivation how to tackle this. I gave my exam last week (2nd week of July), when will I be eligible for the second attempt?

For those who have taken the FE Civil multiple times: did you feel like some attempts were easier or harder than others?
I’m honestly more nervous about my second attempt than my first 😭 What did you study, what resources did you use, and how many hours did you study? And how long after did you schedule another attempt. Any advice for preparing and dealing with exam anxiety would be greatly appreciated!

I am taking the FE civil exam on August 14th for the second time. (First attempt was May 15th and I failed with a score of 53%). I have not been able to study much since then and I noticed it was $50 to reschedule it. Is it worth rescheduling? Or should I take it then

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