<P> The PE Exam is created and scored by the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES). NCEES is a national non-profit organization composed of engineering and surveying licensing boards representing all states and U.S. territories . </P> <P> Exams are offered twice a year, once in April and once in October, and are discipline - specific . With the exception of the Structural exam, each exam is eight hours long, consisting of two 4 - hour sessions administered in a single day with a lunch break . There are 40 multiple - choice questions per session . Several disciplines require a common morning breadth exam which broadly covers the discipline and then a more detailed afternoon depth exam where the test taker selects a more detailed area of the discipline . Other disciplines essentially have morning and afternoon breadth exams . </P> <P> The Structural exam is 16 hours long and administered over two days, with two 4 - hour sessions and a lunch break per day . Morning breadth sessions consist of 40 multiple - choice questions, while the afternoon depth sessions require essay responses . An examinee must earn a passing score on both days' exams in order to pass overall, but need not obtain those scores during the same administration of the exam . </P> <P> PE exams are offered for the following disciplines: </P>

Fundamentals of engineering (fe) and the principles and practices of engineering (pe) examinations