PE exam reviews

Pass your exam with ASCE's help!

Earning your PE license is one of the most pivotal steps in your career.

ASCE now offers PE civil exam review courses on-demand for your convenience.

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Exam review course options

PE Civil on-demand courses

Prepare at your own pace at a time convenient for you.

Architectural Engineering PE exam review

Review tools and strategies and solve problems in a step-by-step manner.

The PE Civil exam is changing!

Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST

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PE Review

Prepare to pass your PE exam with ASCE

Online training, NCEES Handbook tips, study and exam day tips, practice problems, and study strategy

eLearning webinar

What to Know About ASCE’s PE Review Course and How it Can Help You Succeed

Dr. J.P. Mohsen, the course director for the ASCE’s PE Civil Exam Review Courses, will talk about the different PE Review course options and discuss how to decide which option is best for you.

Resources

ASCE's PE exam review courses offer you a structured, on-demand experience with the flexibility of preparing at your own pace at a time convenient to you.

The sessions are designed to provide you with focused knowledge for the PE Civil and Architectural Engineering computer-based exams. The topics covered are aligned to NCEES exam specifications and have a high probability of appearing on the exam based on your instructors’ experiential insight. Group discounts are available, see individual program pages for details.
The PE Civil exam is an 80-question, nine-hour exam that tests for a minimum level of competency in the field of civil engineering. It is designed for engineers who have gained a minimum of four years’ post-college work experience. The PE Civil exam is a breadth and depth examination. The breadth items cover topics from all five areas of civil engineering. The depth items focus more closely on a single area of practice. Students will have already chosen the specific area in which they want to be tested when they signed up for the exam.

The PE Civil exam is computer-based and administered year-round at NCEES-approved Pearson VUE test centers.
- Civil Engineering Magazine interview with course director, JP Mohsen (PDF)
- Ask Anthony: Why Is It So Important to Get Your PE?

Video resources

Study tips

Assess yourself by taking practice exams a few times before you sit down to do a full timed practice exam.

Create a personal study schedule and diligently follow it. Don’t be hard on yourself! If you are unable to understand a topic, move on to the next topic, and come back to that topic later.

Pay attention to the wording of problems and understand which word is most IMPORTANT. One approach is to work a problem like you would handle an actual problem at work.

"The course was very helpful in terms of compiling the most useful information, equations, and processes as they relate to what is required to understand for the PE exam."
Andrew Czech
AECOM, PE Civil 22-part

"The ASCE webinars were fundamental to understanding what the NCEES is testing and helped my focus and study efforts."
Mariela Fitzpatrick
Kiewit Infrastructure South Co., 14-Part Civil Construction Depth