The results for the Fundamentals of Surveying national exam administered by the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying in April 2010 have now been released. Once again SCSU students had the highest pass rate in the USA, at 95%. The national pass rate was 84%.
Nineteen of the 20 SCSU students who took the exam passed. There are 15 subcategories of the exam. SCSU students scored higher than their national counterparts in 12 of the subcategories. The largest difference was in Geographic Information Systems Concepts where our students correctly answered 75% of the questions while the national average was 58% (17% difference). The other subcategories where our students performed significantly better than the national average were: 1) Probability and Statistics (8% higher); and Photo-Image Data Acquisition & Reduction (7% higher). The test is administered twice a year, October and April.
