What this course covers
NCEES FE Civil — 110 questions, built to the Reference Handbook
Your exam and course scope
NCEES FE Civil: 110 questions, 6-hour appointment, computer-based at Pearson VUE, closed book with the searchable electronic FE Reference Handbook, criterion-referenced PASS/FAIL (no percent-correct cut). Built on the fourteen knowledge areas at their official ranges with worked-calculation steppers, a Reference Handbook find-the-formula trainer, and a confusable trainer. An FS/FE path chooser keeps surveying-bound candidates off the wrong drill.
Where this applies. The FE exam is the same NCEES exam in every state; your state engineering board decides who may sit for it and how you apply for EI/EIT certification after you pass.
This is knowledge practice for the written exam. It does not replace approved training, eligibility checks, or any skills evaluation your certifying body requires. NCEES exam fees, the FE Reference Handbook edition, and the published specification revisions change — verify the current ncees.org materials before you register. The FE is criterion-referenced PASS/FAIL; disregard any source quoting a percent-correct or number-correct cut.
What you get
15 teaching modules and 87 practice questions, with narrated lessons, cards, explained answers and review of missed material. Review tests are drawn from the bank you drill and scored against a labelled practice readiness bar — a study target, not the official passing score and not a conversion to it.
How the real exam is scored. NCEES scores the FE pass/fail against a criterion-referenced minimum-competency standard set by a panel of licensed engineers; it publishes no percent-correct or number-correct cut, and the raw score needed varies with each exam form.
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Price and refund
One-time purchase, $39. No subscription. A refund request within 24 hours of purchase is handled by a person within one business day — write to support@passfeexam.com.
Sources and corrections
Teaching and narration are generated and reviewed against the references below; this is independent study material, not an official publication of any certifying body. Found an error? Write to support@passfeexam.com and we correct it.
- ncees.org/exams/fe-exam/ (fetched 2026-07-12) · exam owner
- ncees.org/exams/fe-exam/ discipline list (fetched 2026-07-12) · exam owner
- ncees.org/exams/exam-scoring/ + studyforfe.com passing-score explainer · exam owner
- NCEES FE Civil CBT Exam Specifications PDF (on disk, sha256 dee02e99...) · exam owner
- NCEES FE Civil CBT specs ('closed book with an electronic reference'; SI + USCS) · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Mathematics — vectors); standard calculus · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Mathematics — differential/integral calculus) · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Engineering Probability and Statistics) · exam owner
- NSPE Code of Ethics; FE Reference Handbook (Ethics) · standards body
- NCEES licensure model; state board rules (verify) — updatable · regulator
- FE Reference Handbook (Engineering Economics — interest factor tables) · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Engineering Economics factors) · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Engineering Economics); standard engineering economy · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Statics — equilibrium); standard statics · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Statics — trusses); standard statics · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Statics — centroids and moments of inertia) · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Dynamics — kinematics) · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Dynamics — kinetics, work/energy, friction) · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Mechanics of Materials — axial stress/strain) · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Mechanics of Materials — shear/moment; beam formulas) · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Mechanics of Materials — bending, combined stress, Mohr's circle) · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Materials — mechanical properties); standard materials science · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Materials — concrete); ASTM test methods · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Fluid Mechanics — fluid statics) · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Fluid Mechanics — continuity, energy equation) · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Fluid Mechanics — Reynolds number, flow regimes) · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Surveying — leveling); standard surveying · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Surveying — area computations); coordinate geometry · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Surveying — earthwork/volume, coordinate systems) · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Water Resources — Rational Method); standard hydrology · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Water Resources — Manning's equation) · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Water Resources — hydrology, groundwater/Darcy) · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Environmental — water/wastewater treatment, water quality) · exam owner
- NCEES FE Reference Handbook 9.0, CBT edition — Civil Engineering: Stability, Determinancy, and Classification of Structures, printed p. 148 (PDF p. 154) · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Structural — beam deflection formulas) · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Structural/Mechanics — Euler buckling) · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Structural — loads, load combinations, LRFD/ASD) · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Geotechnical — effective stress); standard soil mechanics · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Geotechnical — classification, index properties, phase relations) · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Geotechnical — bearing capacity, foundation types) · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Geotechnical — lateral earth pressure, Rankine) · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Transportation — geometric design); AASHTO conventions · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Transportation — traffic flow theory) · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Transportation — pavement, traffic control, planning); MUTCD · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Construction — scheduling/CPM); standard project management · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Construction — project controls, earned value) · exam owner
- FE Reference Handbook (Construction — delivery methods, estimating, operations); OSHA · exam owner