California PE Results

Last April I traveled to the bay area to take my professional licensing exam for the state of California. The test goes for two days. The first day is the national 8 hour exam. The following day two state specific exams are given (Principles of Engineering Surveying, and Seismic Principles). In addition there is a short ethics take home exam that is required. Four months later I received my results and found out that I had passed all test except for the Seismic Principles which I had missed the passing score by one point. Despite the setback I retook the Seismic principles in October in hopes of obtaining my first PE license. The California state Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors (PELS) met the past 15th and 16th of January to determine the pass scores for last October’s Professional Engineering exam. An update had had been up for the past few weeks on the PELS website to explain the manner in which scores would be released following the adoption of the cut scores by the board. It is pretty common knowledge among test takers that you can actually find out if you passed a few days prior to receiving official notice in the mail by using the license lookup options connected to most state website. I, of course, had been checking the site religiously for the past few days in hopes of seeing my name listed but to no avail. When I got home today I found the letter in the mail and opened it knowing that I would have a notice telling me how close I had come without passing my exam because my name was not available that day on the website. To my immense surprise and joy I opened the following: