PE Environmental: Practice Questions, Units, and Exam Format
Water and wastewater, solid and hazardous waste, air quality, site remediation, sustainability, and occupational health. See exactly what is on the exam, unit by unit, and practise it with a tutor that adapts to you.
Exam format
| Section | Questions | Time | Share of score |
|---|---|---|---|
| PE Environmental | 80 | 8 hr | 100% |
Units and exam weights
| Unit | Exam weight | Topics covered |
|---|---|---|
| Water | 23.75 to 36.25% | 1.A Water engineering applications (e.g., hydraulics, fluid mechanics, hydrology, hydrogeology, environmental chemistry, biology, microbiology, fate and transport, sampling, monitoring, project management), 1.B Drinking water (e.g., sources of water, treatment technologies and management, distribution systems, residuals management), 1.C Wastewater (e.g., pollution prevention and minimization, treatment technologies and management, collection systems, residuals management, water reuse), 1.D Stormwater and water resources (e.g., sources of pollution, watershed management and planning, stormwater management) |
| Solid and Hazardous Waste | 13.75 to 21.25% | 2.A Engineering applications (e.g., envir onmental chemistry, fate and transport, codes, standards, regulations, guide lines, risk assessment, sampling and measurement methods, reduction, recycli ng, mass and energy balance, hydrology, hydrogeology, geology, project management), 2.B Municipal and industrial solid waste (e.g., storage, collection, transportation systems, treatment and disposal technologies, management), 2.C Hazardous, medical, and radioactive waste (e.g., storage, collection, transportation systems, treatment and di sposal technologies, management) |
| Sustainability | 8.75 to 13.75% | 3.A Resources conservation (e.g., energy conservation, renewable and nonrenewable, material conservation, life-cycle analysis), 3.B Resilience (e.g., infrastructure vulnerability, climate impacts, redundancy, reliability) |
| Air | 16.25 to 25% | 4.A Engineering applications (e.g., samp ling and measurement methods, codes, standards, regulations, guidelines, chemistry, fate and transport, atmospheric science and meteorology, project management), 4.B Pollution control (e.g., sources of pollution, emissions characterization, inventory, treatment and control technologies, pollution minimization and prevention) |
| Site Assessment and Remediation | 16.25 to 25% | 5.A Site assessment (e.g., site investigation, risk assessment, fate and transport, project management), 5.B Remediation (e.g., remedial alternatives, remedial technologies and management, feasibility studies, project management) |
| Environmental and Occupational Health | 8.75 to 13.75% | 6.A Regulatory compliance (e.g., health, security, emergency plans, incident response procedures, codes, standards, regulations, guidelines), 6.B Exposure assessments (e.g., environmental health, occupational health, exposure assessments, project management) |
How Kalyta teaches PE Environmental
Practice that adapts to you, an explanation for every answer, and a full rehearsal before the real thing. You spend your time on the units that move your score instead of the ones you have already got.
- Adaptive practice. Questions are picked around your current level, so you are always working just past what you can already do.
- Every answer explained. See why the right answer is right and why each other choice is wrong, with figures and step by step reasoning.
- An AI tutor you can steer. Ask why something works, ask for another example, or tell it to slow down and teach the idea from the start.
- Full exam rehearsals. Sit the real format under real timing and see exactly how many questions you got right, unit by unit, so test day feels like something you have already done.
- Progress you can see. Watch your readiness climb unit by unit, and know what is solid before you walk in.
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