I’m suprised no one has mentioned it yet, but you absolutely need to study the heck out of the NCEES FE Reference Handbook and the Mechanical Practice Exams. Exam Prep MyNCEES Account You buy them directly from NCEES and they are a good represen. FE Mechanical Review Manual offers complete coverage of FE Mechanical exam knowledge areas and the relevant equations, figures and tables from the NCEES FE Reference Handbook. The book includes 15 mini-exams as well as concise explanations of equations and hundreds of figures and tables. Covers every Mechanical FE exam knowledge area.
You can buy a used version for $100 and sell it back to Amazon for $60. Just do all the problems on scratch paper.There are plenty of problems in it.
Being 2 years out, then you need to study the subjects you're not familiar with and not just the problems.In regards to taking the exam, if you're still familiar with the subjects, you should be good. The morning session is focused on more general topics and the afternoon session is focused on in depth mechanical engineering subjects.You get to pick how long you spend on each subject. I would spend 2:20 on the morning and 3:00 on the afternoon.You will know about 1/3 of the problems off the top of your head. Another 1/3 by just looking up the right formula and the last third you will need to do sufficient calculation or guess.The exam is no where near as hard as the practice problems in the Lindeburg book. Make sure you're extremely familiar with the reference manual so you can search it during the exam.If you are well prepared, then time is your biggest enemy.
In my case, the review manual was not sufficient. I say this because I scored 50% on the NCEES practice exam immediately after finishing the review manual.I'm about five years out of school and just passed the ME FE a few weeks ago.
I spent over a month going cover to cover on Lindeburg ME review book then I took the NCEES practice exam before spending two weeks doing practice problems from the Lindeburg ME practice problem book. Since you're only two years out of school I think you would be better off downloading the NCEES exam handbook and just working problems from the Linderburg practice problem book. I bought mine used for about $60.FYI the in-chapter problems in the review book were very easy, the problems at the beginning of the review manual chapters were often long and complicated so I didn't bother with them, most of the problems in the practice book were pretty close to the exam and were of moderate difficulty.
It (FE mechanical engineering practice problems) is too much. I thought the FE exam would be too much for me. I studied the book for 3 months discretely (I graduated in May), but I couldn't remember the problems at all at the end. Was going to push the exam date back, but it was like $125 to reschedule the exam. So, I just took the exam and I found out for example, for the probability related problems, I had 4 probability problems in the exam. All I need to know are Linear regression and nCr (no binomial distribution and others). I paid $60 on eBay used 3 months ago (FE practice problem), but it is now $45 on Amazon brand new with practice code.Just fellow the FE mechanical CBT(download it from your NECCS account), it says what you need to study/know.
Just know the basics and how to search the key words in the exam.The only free PDF book you can get is 'FE Review Manual - Lindeburg 2010', google it.I took the FE exam a week ago. Still waiting for the results. Waited 5 business days and just got an email telling me to check the results and I checked it and it showed 'passed'. I guessed 7 problems on the afternoon section and 6 on the morning section. Again learn how to use the key words to search and you will encounter some problems you never learned in school and the two Linderburg books I have contains too much information.
You just need a week (if fresh out of school). If you don't feel good then take the practice exam (NECCS) for $50. And spend 3 mins on each problem. Guess if you need to (no big deal).I spent 2hrs and 20 mins on the afternoon section. I didn't read the instructions carefully (was super nervous because I didn't prepare well).