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FE Other Disciplines Practice Exam
Form A
110 original problems in the FE Other Disciplines format, with complete worked solutions. Every problem is answerable with the on-screen reference handbook alone, every solution names the governing handbook equation, and every numeric answer was reproduced by a second, independent calculation route before publication.
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What is in the exam
110 problems distributed across all 14 knowledge areas of the current FE Other Disciplines specification, with per-area counts inside the published NCEES ranges. Two timed sittings of 55 problems reproduce the pace of the real 5-hour-20-minute appointment.
| Knowledge area | This form | NCEES range | Free sample |
|---|
| Mathematics | 9 | 8-12 | View |
| Probability and Statistics | 7 | 6-9 | View |
| Chemistry | 6 | 5-8 | View |
| Instrumentation and Controls | 5 | 4-6 | View |
| Engineering Ethics and Societal Impacts | 5 | 5-8 | View |
| Safety, Health, and Environment | 6 | 6-9 | View |
| Engineering Economics | 7 | 6-9 | View |
| Statics | 10 | 9-14 | View |
| Dynamics | 10 | 9-14 | View |
| Strength of Materials | 10 | 9-14 | View |
| Materials | 7 | 6-9 | View |
| Fluid Mechanics | 12 | 12-18 | View |
| Basic Electrical Engineering | 7 | 6-9 | View |
| Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer | 9 | 9-14 | View |
How the solutions are written
- A short derivation in plain professional prose: what governs, the governing equation named as it appears in the reference handbook, and the result with units.
- A one-line explanation of each wrong choice, computed from the specific error that produces that exact value — never invented.
- Every answer verified by a second, independent route — an alternate formula, a limiting case, or a direct recomputation — before release.
- Typeset as a clean, monochrome book: the full form, an answer key, and complete solutions in one print-ready PDF.
- A score sheet groups your results by knowledge area — the same area-by-area view as the NCEES diagnostic report — so a retake candidate can check that the weak areas from a previous attempt have actually closed.
Sample problem
Mathematics
Water drains from an inverted right circular cone, apex down, having a top radius of 3.0 m and a height of 6.0 m. The discharge is steady at 0.25 m3/s. When the water depth is 4.0 m, the rate of fall of the free surface is most nearly:
- (A)0.0050 m/s
- (B)0.0088 m/s
- (C)0.0199 m/s
- (D)0.0597 m/s
Show worked solution
Answer: (C)
The free surface falls about 0.0199 m/s, since at a depth of 4.0 m its area is only 4π m2.
Geometric similarity ties the surface radius to the depth, reducing the volume to a single variable.
r=2h
V=31πr2h=12πh3
Differentiating volume with respect to depth produces the instantaneous free-surface area, the only geometry the drain rate responds to.
dtdV=4πh2⋅dtdh
At 4.0 m depth the surface radius is 2.0 m and the surface area is 4π m2, so the level drops at
dtdh=4π0.25=0.0199 m/s
FE Reference Handbook — Mathematics: Mensuration of Areas and Volumes, Right Circular Cone; Differential Calculus, The Chain Rule
Why the other choices appear
- (A)Sets the surface radius equal to the depth, r=h=4.0 m, giving 0.25/(16π)=0.0050 m/s.
- (B)Uses the fixed 3.0 m top radius as the surface radius, giving 0.25/(9π)=0.0088 m/s.
- (D)Divides the volume by the depth instead of differentiating, taking dV/dh=πh2/12=4.19 m2 and giving 0.0597 m/s.
One free sample problem with its complete worked solution is published for each knowledge area — open any area from the table above.
Retaking the exam?
Repeat attempts pass at roughly half the first-time rate, and the difference is almost always the plan, not the person. Read the FE Other Disciplines retake guide — the current NCEES rules, how to read your diagnostic report, and how to use this form's knowledge-area score sheet as the go/no-go check before you pay for the next appointment.
Corrections and provenance
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