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PE Civil: Water Resources and Environmental Diagnostic Exam

20 questions drawn from the PE Civil Water Resources question bank, weighted the way NCEES weights the real exam. You have 2 hours. When you finish, you get your score, a breakdown by knowledge area, and the topics to study first.

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20 questions 120 minutes 10 knowledge areas Free

Before you start

  • The clock starts when you press the button and keeps running if you close the tab.
  • Answer in any order. Flag a question to come back to it.
  • There is no feedback until the end, the same as exam day.
  • Have your calculator and the NCEES PE Civil Reference Handbook ready. Some questions also lean on the design standards NCEES lists for this exam.
  • This set covers 10 of the 12 knowledge areas. Analysis and Design and Groundwater and Wells are the ones it skips.

Questions people ask

Is this diagnostic the same length as the PE Civil Water Resources exam?

No. The real exam runs 80 questions in 8 hours of testing time, inside a 9-hour appointment. This set has 20 questions in 2 hours, which works out to about 6 minutes per question, the same 6 minutes the real exam allows for each question.

How are the 20 questions chosen?

They come from the free sample of the PassExams PE Civil Water Resources bank and follow the NCEES weights for each knowledge area. Areas that carry more questions on the real exam get more questions here.

Does a score here predict whether I will pass?

No single set of 20 questions can. Use it to find the areas that need work, then take it again after a few weeks of practice and compare the two reports.

Do I need an account?

No. Your answers stay in this browser and nothing is uploaded. You can save the report as an image when you finish.