Our online PE Exam Review courses have changed a lot from the first courses Dr. Tom offered in 2009. That’s because with every session, we have looked for ways to improve the effectiveness of our courses.
Early on we added study plans, challenge problems and assessment quizzes. When the number of participants really started to grow, we added a participant forum to allow Dr. Tom to answer participant questions in a way that made those answers available to all participants.
Dr. Tom listened to participants requests for quick reference during the exam and created his Dr. Tom’s Exam Day Companion, which many participants found to be the key to their success on the exam. It was the final piece in the puzzle that made up the Dr. Tom Method.
When the Mechanical Exam format changed in 2017 from the AM breadth/PM depth format to three separate exams, Dr. Tom and his team reworked our reviews, adding new material when needed to make sure the reviews were effective for the new exams.
In 2019, we faced our biggest challenge yet, the conversion of the Mechanical PE Exam to the CBT exam format in 2020. With this new format, no outside references are allowed, so a whole new method was needed. Dr. Tom brought his experience teaching for other CBT exams to the creation of a whole new Dr. Tom Method. Since they began in early 2019, Dr. Tom and his team have been completely remaking our Mechanical courses from the bottom up to put the new “CBT” Dr. Tom Method into practice.
Now we’re very excited to be offering those new CBT Mechanical courses to our participants. And we’ll keep listening and improving these courses, because we’re committed to making them the best PE Exam preparation out there.
2016: “Dr. Tom has done a great job establishing a curriculum focused on passing the exam. The problems, videos and study plans were vital to reinforce the concepts learned each week. The elements that I found most beneficial were the Exam Day Companion (EDC) and practice problems. The EDC was my first reference during the exam and provided the equations and concepts needed for the majority of exam day questions. I also found the Participant Forum to be a useful tool to post questions and see other students questions and concerns throughout the 20 weeks.” – Chris F, PE – Westinghouse Electric Company, Irmo, SC
2017: “Your program is absolutely spot on – even with the recent format changes to Th/FL section – you adapted the program to include compressible flow and combined cycles to perfection. Thank you for building my confidence and staying with us during the prep period. I will totally will recommend your program to my peers.” – Michael Mastice, PE
2018: “If a retired US Navy test pilot who has not looked at undergraduate engineering for over 30 years can pass using this course, then this is positive proof that the DTC method is effective. I followed the course to the letter and even built in an extra 2-weeks of review following the 20-week course. In retrospect, the only thing that I could have done differently was to trust in the review and the Dr. Tom process for test taking. I am now a believer in the DTC method.” – Steve, PE
2019: “It had been 12 years since the last time I was in a college classroom. I didn’t even remember what enthalpy or entropy was. Nearly everything in the Dr. Tom course was new to me because I had forgotten so much. If this sounds like you then have courage, you can pass the PE too! I followed the course, watched the lectures, worked the problems, did the quizzes, submitted questions on the online forums and then I passed the test.” – Evan Tinker, PE, Argus Consulting Inc., Overland Park, KS
