• School of PE

School of PE

Overview

School of PE has a rating of 2.3 stars from 15 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. School of PE ranks 290th among Test Preparation sites.

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Top Positive Review

“Great Study Hub”

Rajesh K.
5/12/22

I could say Schoolofpe is an excellent course provider. They have comprehensive course features to pass any professional engineering exam in first try. They also have free repeat concepts which is really a trustful and gain confidence on them

Top Critical Review

“Waste of study time”

Sarah R.
10/2/22

For on demand. The pdfs they allow you to download and what is presented on aren't always the same. Half of the presenters don't actually teach you anything, but just talk about themselves or their job. Videos are incomplete, and one instructor drinks and makes weird noises into the microphone so it's hard to listen to. Don't waste your money or your study time. I have less than a month to study left and I'm abandoning this course because it doesn't teach anything.

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1 review
2 helpful votes
October 2nd, 2022
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For on demand.
The pdfs they allow you to download and what is presented on aren't always the same. Half of the presenters don't actually teach you anything, but just talk about themselves or their job.
Videos are incomplete, and one instructor drinks and makes weird noises into the microphone so it's hard to listen to.
Don't waste your money or your study time. I have less than a month to study left and I'm abandoning this course because it doesn't teach anything.

Tip for consumers:
Don’t. There are other sites. I actually recently heard they were redoing their courses because the pass rate of people who used their material is dropping.

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1 helpful vote
March 29th, 2021
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While trying to get a question answered, not successfully mind you, George Stankaweickch became offended. While he never answered the question I was struggling with, I fnally said, let's just move on. Then randomly about an hour later, he booted me out of the class. This continued several more times as I logged back in. Unbelievable you don't need this kind of added stress when studying for your PE.

Further the communication is horrible, completely unconcerned with people's schedule and getting information out to students. I would go elsewhere.

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February 7th, 2023

There is one instructor who literal read all notes and doesn't explain a thing! He brags about 40 years of experience in a field but has zero intention to teach well! On Demand course is completely useless! Avoid by all mean that specific instructor! You will know him since he always drinks his coffee and wonders around throughout the class without explaining solutions or topics! Sarah is right about previous comment!

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June 28th, 2021

Steel and bridge teachers accent are not understandable. Superficial teaching. For steel the guy only choose part of manual example that was useless in exam. Bridge is terrible. Wood very basic thing still is no good for PE

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1 helpful vote
June 12th, 2022

The videos are very low quality and the teacher is not easy to understand. I paid for the on-demand class. $175 is kind of a lot considering how many errors there were. Also, there are moments in the videos where the teacher isn't saying anything for 10+ seconds at a time. I'm pretty disappointed, and I think I would go with another company if I could go back and not purchase this class.

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Research other options

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1 helpful vote
September 16th, 2021
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The morning section material was somewhat helpful. I used the hard cover book and found that I liked the equations in the back. However, I found just using the CERM (Civil Engineering Reference Manual) and working practice problems to be more helpful. I wasted HOURS watching all of those videos and would have been better of just doing practice problems and watching you tube videos when I had questions. I've even posted questions on reddit and gotten more help than School of PE provided. I failed the exam. The afternoon portion, my professor would put on slides "be sure to read about xyz" rather than including relevant info in the course. I also dislike how they use SI units on a lot of problems and I don't think I had one SI unit problem on the exam. Horrible for afternoon stuff, not the best for morning.

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Thumbnail of user coreycowans
1 review
0 helpful votes
April 15th, 2023

If you use their material you will fail. You'll be prepared to answer maybe 20 questions right on your exam. They will not answer you questions you send, you will wait a week before the teacher tells you "umm...please reach out to the school" or "i cant open png files please reattach" or "i cant answer questions from the exam".

The actual lectures are just PowerPoint presentations which go one by one through each topic in the book. For chemical engineering (what i took), this included fluids, thermo, material and energy balances, reactions, mass transfer, and plant design and operations. They have some problems but none are representative of what you'll see on the exam. I think their material was good for FE not for PE.

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Thumbnail of user avir13
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2 helpful votes
August 19th, 2020

Don't be fooled. I signed up for the ChemE PE and the video material is terrible with errors, and no way to get a refund. Spend your money elsewhere.

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1 helpful vote
February 25th, 2022
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The School of PE is trying to take advantage of the pandemic to *double charge* customers who had purchased their service to study for tests that were canceled due to the COVID-19.
I was registered for the April 2020 PE in MA, which was canceled. I then had to move to CA for my job in September 2020, which made it completely impossible to register for the October 2020 PE exam.
I did not log on to the School of PE once between April 2020 and up until a few days ago. When I asked them to restore my service because my April 2020 test was canceled, and there was no way for me to take the October 2020 PE, they told me "Sure, we can restore your service—for $700!"
When I called to clear up the situation, they told me it wasn't their decision and the product manager (who I later find out is the VP Radhika Dega) will call me. She literally kept repeating "we can do 50% off" and "the October 2020 exam wasn't canceled". I actually thought I was going to go crazy... it was absurd. This company doesn't deserve a penny.

Horrible.

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Thumbnail of user taheerj
1 review
1 helpful vote
July 23rd, 2021

Took the on demand class to get prepared for the PE transportation exam. I couldn't do the exam because I missed my flight from overseas. They did not allow me for free retake. I had to pay for the next on demand class. I took the exam and failed the exam. I signed up for the retake. They updated the material. Now they do not give me access to the new material. They want me to buy the material.
Don't waste your money on this class. The management is rude and will get you into so many ways to get money out of you. They never care about the students. They go over so many things that you be lost what to focus on.

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Do not waste your money on school of PE

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Thumbnail of user mariop68
1 review
2 helpful votes
July 12th, 2019

They must have grabbed the cheapest distillations/reaction teacher for chemical engineering. I was forced to play his videos just to get credit for it.

News flash- When you make 100 errors as a lecturer, can't even write a problem up, and made a kids crayon drawing look better than the note handouts, then you probably shouldn't teach.

Thumbnail of user rajeshk205
1 review
0 helpful votes
May 12th, 2022

I could say Schoolofpe is an excellent course provider. They have comprehensive course features to pass any professional engineering exam in first try. They also have free repeat concepts which is really a trustful and gain confidence on them

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Thumbnail of user yuviselac1
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0 helpful votes
October 13th, 2022
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I been out of school for 8 years, my undergrad was in ME but working as a CE in Transportation. Purchase school of PE on demand but I had a hard time making myself watch the videos so end up purchasing the live classes. The instructors explained the material very good and had no need to read the book for the afternoon part. Except the water instructor wasn't very good so I end up watching the on demand class that had a different instructor. I watched the live classes videos for a second time and worked the workshop problems and quizzes as well. The material was true to form to what's in the test and the use of the references, I did invest a lot of time for 5 months, after work form 6-9:30pm and weekends 6 hours each day. I end up passing the transpo test the first time I took it! So over all my experience with school of pe was a good one!

Tip for consumers:
Invest time on studying the references and study material

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February 3rd, 2016

School of PE is the best online Live review courses for Engineering

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December 1st, 2014

School of PE is a leading Comprehensive Review Courses provider for all Engineering Disciplines. The institute was founded in the year 2004 and they have been consistently providing quality Engineering Review Courses for the Engineering Exams conducted by NCEES.

School of PE aims to provide high quality comprehensive review courses at affordable prices for the engineering community. It has not limited itself to just quality courses but aims for providing these courses at the most convenient mode for the course takers.

School of PE has completed 650,000 hours of successful Student Participation while raising its threshold of par excellence quality standard of the course materials and classes.

The Review Courses that are offered for Engineering Students and Professionals cover all engineering exam disciplines including FE Exam, PE Civil, Electrical, Environmental, Mechanical, Chemical, SE Vertical/Lateral, and CA Seismic/Survey exam in several states across the country.

The game plan set to tackle these licensure is pretty much simple though technically strong. The students are taught general and specific discipline based topics which are handled by Instructors who have expert knowledge on the subject. The structured and logical execution of the course by well-versed instructors is sure-fire way for the first time exam taker to pass their exam.

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A Professional Engineer (PE) in one’s respective field signifies hard work and passion for engineering. The credentials acquired by an individual after becoming a Professional Engineer require commitment towards the profession and are well received by employers and clients.

The School of PE understands the significance of becoming a Professional Engineer and has produced thousands of courses for Professional Engineers. The School of PE is a pioneering online learning avenue that provides these remarkable review courses for PE students.

PE Architectural – An architecture prep course that consists of course materials prepared by experienced instructors that contain practice problems, solution sheets and course video recordings in topics such as Building Systems Integration, Electrical Systems, Project Management, Structural Systems, Mechanical Systems, etc.
PE Chemical – A chemical prep course that consists of refresher classes and online workshops taught by industry experts. It covers key concepts including Heat Transfer, Kinetics, Mass transfer, Plant Design and Operations, etc.
PE Civil – The PE Civil prep course is eighty-four hours long and split into two parts. Fifty-six hours of reviewing the fundamental concepts of the Breadth section and twenty-eight hours of review covering the Depth section.
PE Control Systems – The prep course for PE Control Systems has two sections. Part one contains refresher classes that consist of course lectures. Part two consists of workshop sessions to enhance problem-solving skills.
PE Electrical & Computer – The School of PE provides prep courses for all disciplines of PE Electrical & Computer. The course duration of each section is 64 hours and will consist of refresher classes and workshop sessions.
PE Environmental – PE Environmental exams are conducted as computer-based tests. The School of PE has designed the review course curriculum to reflect a computer-based format. The course consists of refresher classes and workshop sessions.
PE Industrial and Systems – The prep course for PE Industrial and System is 45 hours of comprehensive lectures and workshop sessions as per the specifications laid out by NCEES.
PE Mechanical – The prep course for PE Mechanical covers all the disciplines indicated by NCEES. Each class is 60 hours of refresher classes and workshop practice sessions.
PE Petroleum – The 60-hour long PE Petroleum prep course provides refresher classes and workshop sessions on topics like drilling, production/completion, facilities, reservoir, and project management.
The School of PE designs each course to best suit the individual needs of each PE student. The schedules and aspects of these formats vary depending upon the course specifications of NCEES.
Live Online – The online classroom provides flexible scheduling to meet the individual needs of the student. Online classes are taught by expert instructors and provide real-time interaction between classmates.
On Demand – A flexible course delivery format that allows students to take courses when they need to with time frames of four, six, and eight months on demand. An option of a monthly subscription is also available for every student.
Onsite – The traditional classroom model with an on-site instructor is available only for the PE Civil exam course.
Bundling option – Students can bundle the Live Online and the On-Demand options to suit their needs. This option is available for all courses.

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