Online Practice Exam
This online practice exam is designed to help you train, test, and evaluate your readiness for the NCEES Geotechnical Civil PE Exam while you also learn the conceptual background. This exam contains 80 original, non-AI-generated questions, developed and reviewed by experienced engineers, that closely reflect the coverage, style, and difficulty of the actual Civil PE Exam while also serving as an effective learning tool.
The geotechnical practice exam includes material from ten knowledge areas, referred to here as categories, consistent with the Geotechnical Civil PE exam as published on the NCEES official website. The categories and the approximate number of questions included per exam are listed below:
- Site Characterization – 8–12 questions
- Soil Mechanics, Laboratory Testing, and Analysis – 8–12 questions
- Construction Observation, Monitoring, and Quality Assurance / Quality Control – 6–9 questions
- Earthquake Engineering and Dynamic Loads – 5–8 questions
- Earth Structures, Ground Improvement, and Pavement – 9–14 questions
- Groundwater and Seepage – 4–6 questions
- Problematic Soil and Rock Conditions – 4–6 questions
- Retaining Structures (ASD or LRFD) – 10–15 questions
- Shallow Foundations (ASD or LRFD) – 6–9 questions
- Deep Foundations (ASD or LRFD) – 10–15 questions





