The biggest difficulty with the exam is that some of the references in the body of knowledge are out of print. When you do find the required references trying to find useful information in the text is difficult. The material is mostly outdated. The required "ACI 547.1R-89 State of the Art Report Refractory Plastics and Ramming Mixes” has information that has not been updated since you guessed it 1989. The actual exam is basic API with 75 multiple choice questions. I tried to read everything 3 times before the test and to pick out what looked like potential test questions and write out notes for review. I don't have the results of the examination. How do they stretch out optically scanning answer sheets for 8 weeks?
API is now e-mailing examination notice letters. They e-mailed my examination notification to some other applicant and sent me someone else’s. The API Examination contractor sent out an apology letter indicating that "technology let them down".
So now that my rant posted. If you want to take the exam send me your e-mail address and I will send you the difficult to find documents in PDF.
- Scott
