FE Exam Prep & Tutoring

"FE tutor," "FE exam prep," "FE prep," "EIT tutor" all point at the same goal: passing the NCEES Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam and earning your Engineer-in-Training (EIT) certification, the first step toward the PE license. STEM Tutor 360 offers one-on-one FE tutoring for that exam, taught by an engineer matched to your discipline who works with this material every day.

The one-on-one format is the whole point. A 1-on-1 session is built around your diagnostic: it spends time on the topics costing you points and skips the ones you already own, which is why a focused hour of one on one FE prep beats an evening of watching lecture videos. Sessions run online with a shared whiteboard and flex around a working schedule.

The prep structure is the same for every FE discipline: a diagnostic, a week-by-week plan aimed at your test date, and constant timed practice with the NCEES FE Reference Handbook, the only resource you get at the testing center. STEM Tutor 360 tutors the FE Mechanical and FE Civil exams on their own dedicated pages, and the FE Other Disciplines exam here. Other Disciplines is the generalist's path to EIT status, and its content is almost entirely the shared engineering core: mathematics, probability and statistics, chemistry, instrumentation, engineering economics, ethics, statics, dynamics, strength of materials, fluid mechanics, electricity and magnetism, and thermodynamics with basic heat transfer.

A sample 8-week FE study plan

This is what a plan looks like at about 12 to 15 hours a week, which lands inside the 100 to 200 hours most candidates need. Yours starts from your own diagnostic, so the order and the time per topic shift toward whatever is costing you the most points.

Every week includes timed problems worked with the NCEES FE Reference Handbook open, because finding things in it quickly is a skill the exam scores whether you practiced it or not.

• Week 1: A timed diagnostic exam, then a map of your weak areas. Start mathematics and probability and statistics.
• Week 2: Finish the math, then engineering economics, where the handbook factor tables do most of the work.
• Week 3: Statics and dynamics.
• Week 4: Strength of materials, then your first mixed, timed half-length set.
• Week 5: Fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and basic heat transfer.
• Week 6: Electricity and magnetism, instrumentation, chemistry, and ethics.
• Week 7: A second full-length timed practice exam. Rework every miss and target the three highest-weight weak areas.
• Week 8: Mixed timed sets and handbook speed drills, then ease off in the last two days so you arrive rested.

Already sat the FE once?

Start with the diagnostic report NCEES sent you. It shows how you did in each knowledge area, but not which areas are worth the most points to fix. Our free analyzer reads the report and ranks your topics by how much each one could raise your score, so the retake plan starts in the right place.

Training several engineers at once?

Employers can book a private 8-week FE cohort for their engineers in training: live online, just your team, with weekly problem sets.