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RE: NCEES 2016 Pass Rates

leegreen, post: 409190, member: 2332 wrote: I have attended and assisted in several recent FS/PS review courses in 2016. I have met over 35 students. ...

10 years ago
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RE: NCEES 2016 Pass Rates

Paul in PA, post: 409154, member: 236 wrote: I disagree, many high schools have switched to multiple Calculus courses at the expense of two years of g...

10 years ago
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RE: We need to distinguish between law and fact...

I don't think its as clear cut as you are presenting. It appears to me that location of the boundary is a question of fact and law. The fact is that y...

10 years ago
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RE: NCEES 2016 Pass Rates

Raybies, post: 409142, member: 9029 wrote: I think a stronger focus on the math, geometry, algebra, and statistics, should be required on the exams.M...

10 years ago
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RE: NCEES 2016 Pass Rates

Notwithstanding some excellent surveyors who are awful test takers I think failing any of the exams three times should raise a red flag. The NCEES exa...

10 years ago
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RE: Opus question

JKinAK, post: 408838, member: 7219 wrote: [INDENT](4) the establishment of horizontal and vertical controls that will be the basis for all geospatial ...

10 years ago
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RE: Well, it had to happen...

paden cash, post: 408703, member: 20 wrote: That is technically true in Oklahoma. But it never seems to work that way. Something I run into occasional...

10 years ago
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RE: Well, it had to happen...

Tom Adams, post: 408561, member: 7285 wrote: One issue is that just because there is an easement across someone's property some people think they can ...

10 years ago
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RE: Well, it had to happen...

A Harris, post: 408458, member: 81 wrote: In Texas you would probably have to have a signed permit or court order to be there.When the property owner ...

10 years ago
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RE: So where should the survey monuments go

Scott Ellis, post: 408343, member: 7154 wrote: This seems to be a problem in the PLSS States, if it is not spelled out how to solve the boundary in th...

10 years ago
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RE: So where should the survey monuments go

Scott Ellis, post: 408420, member: 7154 wrote: I was not aware of this rule, thank you for I learned something today about the PLSS And it gets even ...

10 years ago
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RE: Look at this Plat:

I don't see how the court could have ruled any other way.

10 years ago
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RE: Look at this Plat:

They are lots. I have never seen one exactly like this but there were many different styles of loting until the 1870s when they settled on what is sta...

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RE: Fractional Sections, Fractional 40's

This was a 1834 survey. Lots were not standard then. The patent calls for an odd acreage in agrement with the plat. The surveying instructions called ...

10 years ago
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RE: Fractional Sections, Fractional 40's

Just to add a word of warning. There were some very early resurveys that were not labeled as resurvey on the plat. I assume you have the notes and wou...

10 years ago
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RE: Fractional Sections, Fractional 40's

The official definition of a fractional section is a section in which at least one of the 1/4 corners have not been set. An iregular section is any se...

10 years ago
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RE: Arkansas comity

I think it's great that Arkansas requires PLSS experience. Do any other states require this? Every state is unique and has its own set of required ski...

10 years ago
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RE: Arkansas comity

Jimmy Cleveland, post: 406487, member: 91 wrote: I will say that if you are approved, or even seriously considering the AR exam, get a copy of the Ark...

10 years ago
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RE: I've found one of your markers.

Kent McMillan, post: 406596, member: 3 wrote: As long as Texas doesn't have any very good provision for recording maps of surveys and the acompanying ...

10 years ago
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RE: Willy's rant of the day

Holy Cow, post: 406529, member: 50 wrote: When I was a kid the phone book was less than one-quarter inch thick and you could read it from across the r...

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