Thoughts on the Chemical Engineering Professional Examination--To Those Who Come After

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This post was last edited by Jiangnanyan on 2012-1-13 at 13:45. It is up to people to make plans, but it depends on fate for them to succeed. More than that is my fortune; less than that is my fate. Right or wrong is left for experts to judge; I simply post freely as I please. In the 2009 exam, I passed on the first day, but got 52 points on the second day and failed. 10 years, I didn’t apply, but I heard the pass rate is high. For the exam in 11 years, if I pass on the first day, I get 58 points on the second day (in reality I passed on the first day but got 56 points on the second day:dizzy:). Should I take the exam again next year or not? The exam – can I pass it? Is it meaningful? If there’s no exam, are you okay with that? Put the confusing issues aside for now; don’t waste time on them. I’ve taken these exams so many times; let me share my thoughts on them. Well, I’m a candidate from Shanghai; the situation varies from place to place. Let’s start with fatal minor mistakes. 1. I didn’t set an alarm and overslept. I was the one who did it. Luckily my mom called me in time; otherwise I wouldn’t have had to take the exam at all. II. No calculator. I didn’t do it; stop laughing too. Someone really did do it. On the morning of the first day, I bought mineral water at the supermarket; someone wanted to buy a calculator, but none were available for sale. On the afternoon of the first day, when I was on my way home, I heard someone on the subway say that the calculator had run out of battery. Fortunately, it was the first day; if it had been the second day, we would have run out of time too. Let’s talk about common network issues. (You can just search online at the meeting, right?) Why do people ask this question every year? Just do a search, that’s all Too lazy! ) I. Registration and exam dates: In Shanghai, registration takes place in June each year, with the exams held in September. II. Registration fee: 85*4+10=350 yuan. In an era of rising prices, it’s no small thing that the registration fee has been reduced from 95 yuan to 85 yuan. III. Can the registration fee be reimbursed? Ask your boss about that. IV. Eligibility for registration: The exam notice does not state that manufacturing enterprises are not allowed to register. Some people were worried, saying that it wasn’t stated anywhere that registration was possible. Please consult the registration point; their decision is final. However, I work for a manufacturing company. V. Pass rate: There are posts on the forum stating that the national average pass rate is 15%. In reality, for an individual it’s either 100% or 0%; aside from comforting or praising oneself, the 15% has nothing to do with you. VI. Benefits after passing the exam: The benefits refer to the systematic improvement of your professional knowledge? Isn’t it obvious? Is there any need to ask? Do you still mean a raise? You should ask about this at least in 2013; asking now is way too early – you might not even be able to do it by 2013. VII. Review time: Read some books a few days before the exam and do some last-minute review – is that the answer you were looking for? All I heard in the exam room was that I didn’t have time to study, so I just glanced through the material a week before the exam. It’s understandable that failing without having read the book is better than failing after having read it to the point of exhaustion. I really don’t understand how anyone would ask about the repeat* time. If you have time, repeat more times; if not, repeat fewer times. Is it really necessary to ask such a simple thing? Well, let me talk about my exam experiences. I. Retake process: I passed the basic exam in 2008; excluding 2010, it took me a total of 4 – 1 – 1 = 2 years to retake my major exam. The average reading time is about two hours per day. The reference materials include Tianjin University’s guidelines, as well as university textbooks (Principles of Chemical Engineering, Physical Chemistry); for these textbooks, every basic concept needs to be studied. Well, I never really mastered chemical engineering thermodynamics in college; I thought the exam would involve mainly theoretical questions on the first day, and that there wouldn’t be any case studies. After reading two pages of the textbook, I stopped reading it. Well, this year I got questions I couldn’t solve, right? It’s needed for advanced mathematics; I had already studied it when I was covering the basics. I have gone through every example problem in the TianDa Fu* guide and solved every * question, but I hadn’t noticed that there was a collection of answers to those * questions on the forum; so I still couldn’t solve the ones I couldn’t do. By the time I found that collection of answers, I no longer had time. II. The process of the exam 11 years ago: As soon as I saw the types of questions and recognized them, I started answering, but eventually I was unable to continue. For example, with that absorption tower, I calculated L/mV to be 1, and ln1 is 0; I was stunned. There were many questions that seemed familiar, but I couldn’t solve them. In the last half hour, I could solve one problem in three or four minutes; for example, calculating the volume of insulation material. At first I thought I wouldn’t know how to find the volume of an ellipse, so I thought about giving up. But then I saw that the volume of a single-ended container was already given, and what was needed was to calculate the total volume. I just listed one step and was able to figure it out. There were also those in the morning; I solved 2 questions in the last 5 minutes. Both of them required just one step to solve, and another question seemed to require only one step as well, but I didn’t have enough time. III. The role of past exam questions: There are 10 years’ worth of past exam questions on the forum; we candidates have seen them, and so have the examiners (I don’t know if this is the right term – basically, the teachers who create the exam questions). On the second day of the 10 practice exams, there were unified answers; this year, none of the questions were exactly the same. The question types are the same, but the amount of calculation required is significantly higher than last year. The professional exam also included several questions on chemical engineering thermodynamics; this type of question hadn’t been asked in 10 years, not even in 2009, so I certainly didn’t know how to answer them (I took another look after submitting the paper – it seemed not that difficult after all). On the first day of the 10-year past exam questions, there were no unified answers. This year, there were exactly the same original questions – I think around seven or eight of them. I was stuck deciding which ones to choose Finally, I’d like to share my reflections. The chemistry exam is a process-oriented metric, not a state-oriented one; in other words, what matters is the learning process rather than the exam results. If you care so much about passing or failing, then don’t take the exam – it’s not worth the hassle. It’s too naive to think you can cram and pass just before the exam; save yourself the registration fee. Geniuses don’t need to take this test; ordinary people find it very difficult to pass it.