Product Description
The Most Realistic Seismic Exam Practice You Can Get The best way to assess your readiness for the California Special Civil Engineer Seismic Examination is to take a practice exam as similar to the actual exam as possible. Seismic Principles Practice Exams provides the most realistic practice you can get. These two complete practice exams, each with 47 multiple-choice problems, are designed to mimic the range of topics and degree of difficulty of the actual exam. With each exam, you can practice your problem-solving skills, find out how long you take to solve different types of problems, and determine which subject areas require more review or practice. Fully explained, step-by-step solutions are provided for each problem, allowing you to check your answers and understand the most efficient solving methods. To develop your familiarity with the seismic codes used in the exam, Seismic Principles Practice Exams references the 2006 International Building Code (which contains the same material and section codes as Volume II of the 2007 California Building Code) and the 2005 Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures. Seismic Principles Practice Exams will help you pass the actual exam by • Mentally preparing you for the pressure of working under timed conditions • Assessing your problem-solving skills • Reviewing seismic building codes • Identifying topics that require extra review

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.5 based on 9 reviews)

Problems are filled with errors. by Engineer523 (California)

1 Stars
October 23, 2009
I was using this book to prep for the October 2009 Seismic Exam in California, and the example problems are filled with errors. It is maddening trying to evaluate yourself when you're finding mistakes in half the problems. For how much they charge for these guides, I'd have expected them to at least work through the problems and perhaps proof read the answers.

Waste of Time and Money by PE Test Taker (Long Beach, California)

1 Stars
May 15, 2009
This book is a waste of your time and money. If you want to pass the Seismic PE exam you will regret buying any PPI books by Majid Baradar. These books are off topic and don't prepare you at all for the types of questions asked on the exam. These books are unorganized and full of typos and mistakes. If you do want to pass, get Hiner's "Seismic Design Review Workbook" at [...] along with the ASCE reference. This workbook is condensed, to the point and full of great example problems similar to the exam questions. Also, if you plan to take a review course, don't take PPI's.

Inadequate by Disappointed Engineer (Arcata, CA)

1 Stars
May 11, 2007
This book, and the accompanying "345 Solved Seismic Design Problems" and "Seismic Principles Practice Exams" were very insufficient to prepare me for the April 2007 CA seismic Exam. I took the PE exam several years ago, and did quite well, therefore I feel that these books were very inadequate. They are very poorly written, I spent most of my time trying to figure out what the author was talking about because few complex concepts were defined. Additionally in the example computations, he often did not reference which equations and code sections he was using, and did not explain his assumptions. Therefore, it was very difficult to understand the solutions, and almost impossible to apply the concepts to another questions. Allowable stress increases and strength reduction factors were glossed over in the text, but used in some example problems, but not others, with no explanation of why they were used sometimes and not in other cases. The book had few informative figures, and no figures that showed basic principals. These three books were fairly expensive, but were riddled with errors, and did not explain the material in enough detail to answer the application-based exam questions. For instance, why would you choose one type of allowable building structure over another? The actual exam focused mostly on computational questions that were much more difficult than the practice problems or practice exams. I felt like I was prepared going into the exam having done all the practice problems, and scoring well on the practice exams. When I saw the exam questions, I could not believe how much more complex they were than practice problems. Don't buy these books, buy the Hiner Book at [...]even if you can't take the class. It is much cheaper, and from what I have heard, very complete and clear.

Not Satisfied by Sardar N. Khan (California, USA)

3 Stars
April 26, 2007
There was little help available from this book on the seismic exam, held on April 21, 2007.Most of the questions were outside the scope of this book, or even the other Lindberg's books on seismic course. The book is ok, but if I didn't pass the seismic exam, I certainly would buy some other book, as I can't rely on this book alone.

Helpful Reference for the Seismic PE Exam by Bryen Woo (Irvine, CA, USA)

5 Stars
April 18, 2005
I purchased this book to help me pass the Seismic Principles secion of the PE Exam. After taking the exam a couple days ago I must say that this book was very helpful in preparing me for the exam. This was the third time I took the Seismic Principles exam and this book helped me solve the many problems I had no clue how to solve on the previous two Seismic exams I took. If I had this book the first or second time I took the exam I probably would have passed. I am crossing my fingers that 13 weeks from now I get the good news that I passed the Seismic Principles section. My thanks go out to the people who wrote the helpful reviews and Mr. Majid Baradar.

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