Texas State-Specific

Start at the TBPLS website and have some experience being in charge of actual surveys in Texas.
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BTW, your link does not show an actual website on my screen, kinda suspicious.......

Good Luck, Texas is the only state that I am Licensed in that when I took the test that the Board would not give a book list.
Since i have heard the State test called the Ken Gold test I would look for any articles and text by him.

If you can get a hold of one, they do a short course down in Corpus and the book that goes along with it is a good "cliff notes" sized refresher. Very condensed, but helped me a lot.

http://txls.texas.gov/act-rules/

https://tsps.site-ym.com/store/ListProducts.aspx?catid=398037

Manual of Practice
Locating Original Corners
Study Guide for Texas Surveyors

I think I got a lot out of B. W. Evans Study Guide for Texas Surveyors. I believe it is available from TSPS.

Of course you definitely want to read "The Act" very carefully and thoroughly.

I just finished the process. The Ken Gold Decisions book is good, and TSPLS has a review guide that is good. I took a review course and it really helped. My biggest problem was getting back into test mode, it had been 31 years since I took one of those tests and they never have the option to go look again for another corner on the exam. You have to build the boundary given the information on the test. Study, work the review problems and relax. For me the hardest part was dealing with all the paper on the exam with a tiny little work space. When I was an old school surveyor, I had a full sized drafting table to work on. For the Texas exam, I had a table that was about 18" X 36" to work on and had to deal with deeds for 5 or 6 parcels. At work, I have dual monitors and everything is scanned. Good luck. I did the review classes that TSPLS put on in the Dallas area. I went down there for 2 of the sessions, but they also do them online.

Here is a link of the RPLS/SIT study groups going on in the state. I actually have a lot on a flash drive somewhere. IF i find them i can send them your way too.

Shawn Billings, post: 411506, member: 6521 wrote: I think I got a lot out of B. W. Evans Study Guide for Texas Surveyors. I believe it is available from TSPS.

Of course you definitely want to read "The Act" very carefully and thoroughly.

I read the B.W. Evans Study Guide as well, its quick and easy to read yet gives a lot of information.

A Harris, post: 411468, member: 81 wrote: BTW, your link does not show an actual website on my screen, kinda suspicious.

Somehow he got his whole post into the link so it didn't decode as a real link. The embedded link was
https://tsps.site-ym.com/store/ListProducts.aspx?catid=398037

This is enough to get me started. Thank you all for the replies!

Got another question for the TX RPLS's (Figured this was a good place to ask, so as not to be redundant in creating another thread)...

Does anyone happen to know if I can get my bachelors degree in, well, anything, as long as I have taken the required amount of hours related to surveying? I was thinking I'd get the bachelors first, since I already have an associates in another field...get started with my SIT and then complete another associates degree in Land Surveying. It won't be related to the bachelor's at all but I'll be able to say I have a bachelor's degree and the related hours.......

I would check with the Board, call Natalie Jackson, but I would think no, unless that degree from an accredited institution in:
(A) civil engineering;
(B) land surveying;
(C) mathematics;
(D) photogrammetry;
(E) forestry;
(F) land law; or
(G) the physical sciences.

Sec. 1071.254

12 years ago the answer was yes.

i got a degree in political science 22 years ago. 12 years ago went back to supplement hours required to sit for the exam- 2 semesters' worth, no additional degree.

so if it has changed, it has changed only in the last decade or so.

I have a BBA degree. I took a few surveying classes as electives. I sat for the exam in April 2013

I stand corrected

Darryl Beard, post: 413243, member: 11556 wrote: I have a BBA degree. I took a few surveying classes as electives. I sat for the exam in April 2013

One of my guys just got accepted to sit for the exam with History degree

I sat for my SIT with no degree, only experience. ( I had an arts degree from HCC, but did not bother showing them since i was applying under number 5)

SIT has a couple ways about it
(1) 4-year land surveying degree from an accredited school
(2) 4 year degree and 32 hours with one year exp
(3) associates degere and 2 years exp
(4) completed a course of instruction and 32 yours with 2 years
(5) high school diploma, 4 years exp., and approval from the board

TX Grasshopper, post: 413184, member: 9335 wrote: Got another question for the TX RPLS's (Figured this was a good place to ask, so as not to be redundant in creating another thread)...

Does anyone happen to know if I can get my bachelors degree in, well, anything, as long as I have taken the required amount of hours related to surveying? I was thinking I'd get the bachelors first, since I already have an associates in another field...get started with my SIT and then complete another associates degree in Land Surveying. It won't be related to the bachelor's at all but I'll be able to say I have a bachelor's degree and the related hours.......

Last time I checked any Bachelor's Degree would work, either in Arts, or Science. You do need 32 credit hours from the approved Board list.

ANOTHER_TEXAS_SURVEYOR, post: 413267, member: 8610 wrote: I sat for my SIT with no degree, only experience. ( I had an arts degree from HCC, but did not bother showing them since i was applying under number 5)

I will be doing the same. Bachelors will come later. I will have to gather the RPLS's I've worked for and ask them to sign...what do they have to sign? On the website it looked like it was a form that was made up for them to fill out. Do they need to write a letter or anything or just fill out the form?