Two recent PE candidates
Quote:The two candidates in question will not be allowed to retake the PE exam until October 2010. Full press release here. The press release does not indicate if the two candidates were attempting to use banned HP calculators (the only HP calculators that are currently legal for NCEES exams are the 9S, 30S, and 33S).
were removed from the PE examination in Cleveland, Ohio during the examination because they were using calculators that were not approved by Engineering and Land Surveying Examination Services (ELSES) — an affiliate of the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying — which administers the licensing exams for the Board. The calculator policy is distributed to all examinees prior to the exam and the policy is also explained during the exam instructions given the day of the exam to ensure that all examinees are testing under the same conditions nationwide.