so I will be taking the PS exam in Ocotber - I was looking at the OSLS website and noticed that only 3 registrants recieved their License in April. Is this because of a low number of applicants or just a tough exam or both? Just curious...
i have no idea
i will guess that there are few people taking the exam
i took the exam with 4 or 5 other candidates in a room with 250 engineers taking their exams
we had a 15 minute break between the national and state specific portions
this meant the engineers left while we had 15 minutes left
i almost threw a chair into the crowd of engineers packing up, talking and just being annoying
good luck on the exam
spledeus - I appreciate it- maybe one of the recently licensed Okie boys will chime in - guess I was thinking 20 or 30 applicants would be testing at a time- might not be the case...
It's a pretty tough test. They give you everything you can do in the 2 hours allotted. I passed in October 2010 (yes, I took it more than once). There were probably at least 20 guys taking it each time.
They are very picky about the wording of MTS.
Know the Three-Mile Method.
Be able to break down section 6.
That's all!
Good luck!
The last time, when I passed, I stopped by Walmart in El Reno and got a OU cap to wear in the exam room. I had always worn my Texas Tech cap before.
Coincidence? Perhaps......
I will be applying to sit for the OK test in October too.
Andy - good luck - hope to see you there! - by the way- shout out - Cindy (and you)were able to help me and my crew out - grid coordnates got me within 0.3' of a found section corner- I moved it;-) -- thank you!
GOOD TO HEAR
At least there seems to be an influx of surveyors somewhere. We seem to be losing more than gaining. I know of one guy who is now a cook or chef. It's ok, his work was questionable anyhow...
I suppose you can't REALLY answer this, but are you planning
on making a 90 degree turn from where I knew you, or are you just widening out your horizons?
thanx,
geezer
OK LS
I took it the same time robby took it! Me, him and one other guy are the only ones that passed! There where guys taking it for the third and fourth time!
Not going anywhere Geezer! - our transmission line work could possibly head north into oklahoma - I was told it might be good to have..
Isn't Oklahoma a wee bit far north for you?
It is at least 320 miles to the state line, 600 miles to the Panhandle and 570 to Tulsa.
:coffee:
nope- we have been running four crews consistently for the last 3 years in Wilbarger, Wichita, Clay, Montague, and Archer Counties in North Texas - we have a very good client:-)
Engineer's exam...
When I took the Oklahoma exam (Oct. 1981) it was given at the "engineering building" where the State Board's Offices are, still to this day. Anyway, the temps were in the thirties at 6:30 AM with a stiff north wind and precip..it wasn't a pretty day at all.
There were two entrances to the building, a north door and a south door. I naturally went and hung out with everybody at the south door, to stay under the canopy and have the building block the wind.
The doors opened at 7 AM and everybody that had been on the south side walked into the "surveyor's" side of the building...all the shivering and soaked folks from the north door walked in to the "engineer's" side of the building....
It was just a real good indication of something that I had suspected for a number of years.:snarky:
Your generous offer of lunch to show your appreciation is cheerfully accepted.
> so I will be taking the PS exam in October - I was looking at the OSLS website and noticed that only 3 registrants recieved their License in April. Is this because of a low number of applicants or just a tough exam or both? Just curious...
I am one of the 3 you speak of. Six of us, all comity applicants, wrote the state exam in late February. It certainly was no harder than the state exams I took in Oregon and Washington. Questions focused on PLSS and Certified Corner Record requirements, as advertised.
Results of the April exams are not yet available. My son got his OK PLS following the Spring 2011 exams, my number is 28 over his.
I just sat for my State Specific in Kansas. There were about 30 people testing this time. In the Fall I sat for both Principles (passed) there were about 35, and the State Specific ( I sat again in Spring so you know the results lol) there were 12 people taking it.
> so I will be taking the PS exam in Ocotber - I was looking at the OSLS website and noticed that only 3 registrants recieved their License in April. Is this because of a low number of applicants or just a tough exam or both? Just curious...
I sat for the ME exam in April of 2011. Two other guys were in the room with me; I estimate that the number of engineers testing upstairs was close to 100, one of which was already a licensed surveyor.
At the annual meeting last winter, I was the only new licensee for 2011.
We had 8 first time takers sit for the fall PS in KY. Three of the eight passed. New licensure laws closed the door on past routes of licensure unless an applicant is already in the "pipeline". I suspect that the test applicants will be even less this spring.
There were three of us when I sat for the Mass. exam. And the other two guys were repeat takers. There must have been over 200 engineers in the other room. Sad.
We're a dying breed.
-V
