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"*She* finds all monuments as described" so sick of this wording. Yet in nursing degree exams it's extremely rare to see "He administered" and only "he was treated by"

Just passed the FS and got approved for the LSIT. Just wanted to say Thank You! Your videos helped in the process.

This is very helpful ❤

B is accurate but not precise because the shots are clustered together nicely; D is precise but not accurate because a portion of the shot pattern is closest to the bullseye. This video has the terms reversed? 12:23

Thank you for the informative video. In case you're interested, thalweg is a word of German origin and it is pronounced "tahl-veg."

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A technicians opinion is completely worthless until they have a piece of paper from the state that says it is now suddenly worth a lot more 🤷🏻‍♂️ I think licensing is intended for good, but I have seen some pretty shotty work done by a PLS that I would never do even as a technician. You want to make surveying an industry people get interested in? Then fix the licensing system, its garbage. Technicians should have a quicker path to licensure, as good surveyors will catch on quickly, and PLS's should be held more accountable for crappy surveys.

Where was this a year ago ;) Great classes and well worth the money. I was able to knock out the fs and ps in about four months time this last year. The content was also considerably better than my formal university education I completed

How did they accommodate for magnetic declination when they made to first survey maps? How did they correct for elevation gain/loss when using the chain? (I imagine that is where a level sight and trigonometry might be handy) Was there a built-in level for the compass disc, or a way to align the disc in two dimensions with the plumb?

Yip, professional surveyor just a pencil pusher.... yet they take the responsibilities of the project

I applied for a comity license in my neighboring state and my application was rejected because their state regulations required you to wait 6 years after your education to qualify. That not what comity means. I think taking state specific exams are good. It is a little different and nobody wants an uneducated surveyor entering onto their primary area and not knowing what they are doing. Our exam is a couple of hours and the study addresses the common errors found. But they should be offered every month. I feel it should be as simple as 1. Pass the FS and PS. 2. Take any state specific exam in which every state offers it every month. Surveyors are very territorial!

Good info. Accuracy and precision can also refer to unit of measurement. eg. If you see something mapped as 10.2 feet and it measures as 10.16, the 10.2 is accurate to the precision of 10ths of a foot. If map states 10.20 feet, then the map loses the accuracy. Question for you as related to language used for requirements of filing an ROS instead of a corner record. Is there any standard for "Material Discrepancy"?

What if the monument is missing and all you have is the distance and bearing, what do you do at that point?

Thanks for this interesting videos. But I noticed a mistake, 0.5 ft is 15 cm not mm.

This is so informative🔥

This video helped me a lot❤️🔥

I bet land surveyor numbers in Texas are shrinking due to the licensing processes. It doesn't appear as if you are eligible to apply for a surveyor-in-training certification without doing what that certification licenses you to do for a year or two. Maybe I'm wrong, but it almost looks like it is literally impossible to get licensed as a surveyor in Texas as of those changes in the law that were made fairly recently.

As a cowboy/rancher/land manager I can assure you that he is 100% correct when he says surveyors are who really settled the West. That said, I wouldn't exactly paint the surveying community with a broad brush of innocence.

I don't believe Kentucky and Tennessee use the PLSS. Portions of the states do but finding any recorded data on those portions is a huge pain. Occupation along PLS lines is typically pretty clear though.

I'm taking my PS exam next week and I'll wear a mask, I'll wear 3 masks if they ask me. I've worked to hard to get here and would never jeopardize my ability to get licensed

And if they’re not within a few hundredths??

The video content is so excellent, congratulations

If instrument is single face.. Then

I am a civil engineer, can I take fs exam??

I just took the FS exam in April and PS exam in May. In April the mask was not required in the testing facility. A month later, same facility, it was required. I thought it was lame. However the proctors were extremely friendly, professional and gentle in their reminding and enforcing of the rules. In some situations, yeah, maybe I'll be a bit defiant about the mask, but the person from this story is a self-absorbed moron for even toying with the proctors. I will not say that he or she got what they deserved. (The punishment is quite harsh.) But this was easily avoidable on such an important day.

Thank you. ❤❤👍

the "secret" ingredient to Roman concrete was not "pulozana", it's "pozzolana", a volcanic rock from the city of Puteoli, (today Pozzuoli) near Naples and the infamous Vesuvius

GOOD!

As a 2008 licensee, my advice is: 1. Look through the test and find the areas that score the most points. Focus your study there. You can’t master everything so concentrate on what returns the most points 2. After #1 concentrate your study on the things you know best. For example, I had a ton of experience with construction staking so I focused on calculating grades etc. I knew public lands and boundaries were good for lots of points so I worked hardest on that. I was horrible at doing state planes calcs so I just did as much as I could on it if If I had time after the stuff mentioned above. Fortunately the year I took the exam most of the questions were about terminology rather than hard calcs.

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You are exactly correct to much red tape will discourage a lot of potential Surveyors from the profession. This should all be reduced to one nation wide course that when passed would allow a surveyor to work in any state with his current license. And yes I understand that some locations could require more study on his part but that should not devoid his license for working in that area. A medical Doctor can go from state to state with his license why not a Surveyor? If it keeps getting harder to get the license drones will be doing all the work men once did and maybe that's what they really want but nothing can be better than the man on the ground.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐