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FE Exam Practice Test and Practice Problems From Your Own Notes and PDFs

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In short: to build FE exam practice problems, upload your course notes, review material or Reference Handbook sections, and the AI writes practice problems with an answer key and explanations in seconds. The FE is the first step toward Professional Engineer licensure and has 110 questions inside a 6 hour appointment, of which 5 hours and 20 minutes is actual testing. You choose one of seven discipline exams (Chemical, Civil, Electrical and Computer, Environmental, Industrial and Systems, Mechanical, or Other Disciplines), and NCEES reports the result as pass or fail with no published numeric score. The only reference allowed is the searchable FE Reference Handbook shown on screen, so practicing with your own material and learning to find things in the Handbook quickly are both part of the job.

Last updated July 2026

Questions
110
Testing time
5h 20m
Practice questions
Unlimited

What an FE practice problem generator does

Test yourself on your own engineering material, not a problem set you have memorized

Most FE candidates work the same review book twice, then a third time. By then you recognize the setup before you read the numbers, and you pick the right answer without actually running the analysis. That feels like progress and is not. This tool changes the source material. Upload your statics notes, a thermodynamics chapter, your ethics and professional practice summary or a section of the FE Reference Handbook, and the AI MCQ test maker writes brand new practice problems from that exact content, with an answer key and an explanation behind every choice. A miss tells you which topic area is soft, which is the same signal the NCEES diagnostic report gives you after a failed attempt, except you get it now instead of after the fee.

Works with any review book or notes

Upload a review manual chapter, your undergrad course notes, a professor handout, a formula sheet or pages you photographed. If the file explains an engineering concept, the generator can build practice problems on it.

Target one topic area at a time

Weak on fluid mechanics, or on the engineering economics questions that show up on every discipline exam? Upload the notes for that one area and narrow your practice to where your accuracy actually drops.

Fresh problems every session

Generate a new set each time so you are testing recall, not memory of a specific problem. Repeated retrieval on unseen items is what carries over to an exam you have never seen.

The seven FE discipline exams

NCEES offers seven FE exams and you sit exactly one. Most candidates pick the exam that matches their degree. Here is who each one is built for and the topic areas it leans on.

FE discipline exam Who takes it Typical focus areas
Chemical Chemical engineering students and recent grads. Material and energy balances, thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer, reaction engineering, process design and safety.
Civil Civil engineering students and grads, including many heading for a PE in structures. Structural analysis and design, geotechnical, transportation, water resources, construction, surveying.
Electrical and Computer Electrical, computer and related engineering candidates. Circuit analysis, electronics, power, signals and systems, electromagnetics, control systems, digital systems, computer networks.
Environmental Environmental engineering candidates, plus civil grads working in water or air quality. Water and wastewater treatment, air quality, solid and hazardous waste, environmental chemistry, risk assessment, groundwater.
Industrial and Systems Industrial, systems and manufacturing engineering candidates. Engineering economics, probability and statistics, operations research, work design, quality, manufacturing and production systems.
Mechanical Mechanical engineering students and grads, one of the largest candidate groups. Statics and dynamics, mechanics of materials, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, machine design, measurements and controls.
Other Disciplines Engineers whose background does not map cleanly to the six named exams, such as some biomedical, agricultural or general engineering grads. Broad fundamentals: mathematics, statics and dynamics, materials, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, electricity, engineering economics, ethics.

Whichever exam you pick, the shape of the day is the same. You get 110 questions and 5 hours 20 minutes of actual testing inside a 6 hour appointment, and the result comes back as pass or fail with no numeric score attached. The only reference you are allowed is the FE Reference Handbook, a searchable PDF that NCEES puts on the screen next to the questions. That single fact should shape how you study. Knowing that a formula exists is worth very little if you burn ninety seconds hunting for it, so work practice problems with the Handbook open, in the same searchable form you will see on exam day. Upload the Handbook sections that cover your weak topics, generate problems from them, and force yourself to locate each equation rather than recall it from memory.

Simple process

How to make FE practice problems in 4 steps

1
Upload your material
Drop in a review book chapter, your course notes, a Handbook section or your own summaries. Scanned and handwritten pages are read with OCR.
2
Set the drill
Pick the question count and difficulty. Run a short warm-up on one topic area or a longer mixed set that spans your whole discipline exam.
3
AI writes problems
The AI reads your content and writes FE style multiple choice practice problems with an answer key and clear explanations.
4
Review and repeat
Score the set, read the explanation behind every miss, then generate a fresh drill on just those topic areas and go again under a timer.

Who uses this to prep for the FE

Seniors sitting the FE near graduation

Most people take the FE in their last year, while the coursework is still fresh. You already have four years of notes. Upload them by topic, generate problems, and turn material you have written yourself into the drilling that gets you through 110 questions.

Working engineers going for the PE

If you graduated a few years back and the FE is the box you still have to check before the PE, you do not need a course. You need reps. Upload a review manual chapter over lunch, run a fifteen problem set, and keep chipping at it around work.

Retakers with a diagnostic report

A failed attempt comes with a diagnostic showing performance by topic area. That is a study plan. Upload the notes for the areas it flagged, drill only those, and use one of your remaining attempts in the same 12 month window with a real target.

FE exam practice problems, answered

How many questions are on the FE exam?
The FE exam has 110 questions. Most are multiple choice, and the rest are alternative item types such as fill in the blank, drag and drop, and point and click. The mix depends on which of the seven discipline exams you sit. If your engineering notes are on paper, run them through an OCR tool like DocuOCR first so you can upload them and drill all 110 question slots on your own material.
How long is the FE exam?
The total appointment is 6 hours, but only 5 hours and 20 minutes of that is actual testing. The rest is a 2 minute nondisclosure agreement, an 8 minute tutorial, and a 25 minute scheduled break. That works out to under three minutes per question, which is why fast navigation of the FE Reference Handbook matters as much as knowing the theory.
What is a passing score on the FE exam?
There is no published numeric passing score. NCEES reports results as pass or fail only, with no percentage and no fixed cut score released to candidates. If you fail, you receive a diagnostic report showing your performance by topic area so you know where to focus on a retake. Recent NCEES first time pass rates run roughly 60 percent to 75 percent depending on discipline.
What disciplines can I take the FE exam in?
NCEES offers seven FE discipline exams: Chemical, Civil, Electrical and Computer, Environmental, Industrial and Systems, Mechanical, and Other Disciplines. You pick one when you register. Most candidates choose the exam that matches their degree, though you are not required to. Other Disciplines is the general option for engineers whose background does not line up cleanly with the six named exams.
Can I use the FE Reference Handbook during the exam?
Yes. NCEES supplies the FE Reference Handbook as a searchable PDF on screen, and it is the only reference you are allowed to use. You cannot bring your own books or notes. Because every equation you need is in there somewhere, a big part of prep is learning where things live and how to search the Handbook quickly under time pressure.
Can I use my own notes to make FE practice problems?
Yes, and that is the point of this tool. Upload your course notes, your review material or a section of the FE Reference Handbook, and the AI writes fresh practice problems from that exact content with an answer key and explanations. Every set is new, so you are testing recall of the concept rather than remembering the answer to a problem you have already worked three times.
Is this an official FE practice exam?
No. PDFQuiz is an independent study tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by NCEES. It generates practice problems from the material you upload and does not reproduce real exam questions. Use it alongside official NCEES materials, including the FE Reference Handbook and NCEES practice exams, as extra drilling rather than a replacement for them.

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