Fundamentals of Preparation Institute
Train on the exam
you'll actually sit.
Every exam hands you something on the day: an open handbook, an adaptive screen, a format that behaves in one specific way. Most preparation pretends it doesn't. Ours is built around it.
4 guides in print, each one read and signed by a named professional with a licence you can look up. See who signed them.
Which exam are you preparing for?
For future P.E.s
Engineering licensure
The exam gives you the NCEES® Reference Handbook. Every chapter opens with the pages you will need.
For students and parents
College admissions
The exam is adaptive and on screen. You practise module by module, timed and scored the same way.
One book. The whole preparation.
Most publishers sell you the book, then the question bank, then the mock exams, then the app. We put all of it behind one cover, and the cover is the only thing you buy.
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The printed course
Every chapter opens with the pages the exam itself hands you, and teaches you to read them under time.
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Practice with named traps
Every wrong option carries the specific mistake that makes it tempting — indexed at the back, so you can study your own errors by type.
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The exam simulator
The same interface, the same clock, the same adaptive behaviour as the real thing. Unlimited attempts.
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The platform, for good
Full access to the app that continues the book: adaptive exams, targeted drills, a map of what you are still missing.
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A signature on the foreword
A licensed professional read it and put their name and licence number on it. If a page is wrong, there is someone answerable.
No subscription sits between you and the material. The book pays for the platform, not the other way round: buy the book once and the platform is yours, with no renewal to remember three weeks before the exam.
If we are wrong
We correct it in public.
Write to us with the page and the problem. Confirmed errors are corrected and published in the errata, with the date. A book that never admits a mistake is a book nobody checked. Editorial policy.
If it is not for you
Amazon's 30 days, not ours.
Every guide is sold through Amazon, so the return window is theirs and it is the one you already trust. We never see your card, and you never have to argue with us to get your money back.
Every book carries a name.
Not "endorsed by professionals". Endorsed by a specific person, who read it and signed it.
James M. Wright
P.E.
US · Texas License No. 87249
FE Mechanical
Mike A. Herzog
P.E.
US · Nebraska License No. E-13990
FE Electrical and Computer
Nelson F. Anderson
P.E.
US · Florida License No. 93021 · Texas License No. 153545
FE Civil
Melissa Mirabello
M.A.
M.A. Secondary Education · 6th Yr. in Educational Leadership
SAT
Two mechanisms, in every book we publish.
They are not claims about our books. They are how the pages are laid out, and you can check both by opening one.
The map precedes the journey
Every chapter opens with what the exam will hand you: the exact Handbook pages, or the exact screen you'll face. Worked examples pull from that same source, never from memory. By exam day the document isn't new — you've been navigating it for months.
Every wrong answer is named
Not just why the right one is right. Each wrong choice carries the specific mistake that makes it tempting, written out. Our books call them Trap Alerts, and there is an index of them in the back, so you can study your own errors by type.
And one thing we refuse to do
We publish the real number of questions. No padding, no duplicates dressed up as new material, no count that looks bigger on a cover than it is on the page.
Your exam already has a date.
Every week between now and then is either spent on the exam you are going to sit, or on a generic one that nobody administers. Start on the right one.
Sold on Amazon · Endorsed by name · Platform included