I am hoping my friends here who have always been helpful might be able to point me to the right reference materials for the exam. I guess I am sitting for the B & C portions...this is my first time. I am a VA Surveyor applying via comity.
Any general information will be helpful, as they provided me with no list of references to be prepared for. I need everything 🙂
Thanks in advance.
> I am hoping my friends here who have always been helpful might be able to point me to the right reference materials for the exam. I guess I am sitting for the B & C portions...this is my first time. I am a VA Surveyor applying via comity.
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> Any general information will be helpful, as they provided me with no list of references to be prepared for. I need everything 🙂
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> Thanks in advance.
Part B cover the laws, rules and policies relating to surveying.
Part C covers Hydrology. If you do not have a great deal of experience working with drainage calculations, take a Hydrology class.
Larry P
A friend/co-worker (some 7 or 8 years ago) took the NC exam (he passed) and a question he got stumped on was something like: "who owns un-claimed non-navigable water-ways?"
I had just recently read an article regarding riparian legal issues in one of the surveyor mags and knew the answer. He looks at me "how the hell do you know that?!". At the time I was mostly just a field-monkey and newbie I-man so I could understand his curiosity.
All my NC LS friends (my good friend Mr. P included) all say to bone up on the hydrology calcs. I don't why they are hung up on that. None of the NC folks I worked for did any drainage calcs. Then again, I mostly worked for engineering firms.
Mr. Larry has some hydro study materials available. I've heard of several that will swear by that. Seems like one was a video and the other was a quick reference guide.
Mr. P can provide the details.
It's been a REALLY long time since I've been to his office.
Good luck.
E.
I'm going back to Raleigh in two weeks to re-take Part C. I immediately realized as soon as I walked out of the exam room that I messed up on a question, and sure enough, I failed the drainage portion. If you miss one question in Part C you'll need to re-take it. Part B is 20 questions on Laws worth 40 points and Part C is 5 questions on Drainage worth 40 points. I had a few off the wall questions, one was on how a GPIN is calculated.
