Free 34 CBA Mini-Course
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You'll get:
- A list of the top 5 rejected competencies.
- Details on the 3 common CBA mistakes we see.
- A CBA brainstorming MS Excel sheet.
- Lessons and 7 fully accepted submissions on these competencies:
- 1.1. Regulations, Codes and Standards
- 2.1 - Oral Communication
- 3.1 - Project Management Principles
- 4.1 Work Respectfully
- 5.1 Apply Code of Ethics
- 6.1. Public Impacts and Safeguards
- 7.1 Complete Professional Development Activities
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Questions? Answered!
Unfortunately, it’s impossible for us (or anyone else) to take your resume and turn it into a CBA.
A resume is a 1 or 2-page document that summarizes your duties and accomplishments at a very high-level.
A Competency-Based Assessment (CBA) goes deep into the details of specific situations at work. For instance, competency 1.1 Regulation, Codes, and Standards ask you to demonstrate your knowledge of regulations, codes, standards, and safety. This is not something that you would have in your resume and is one example of why you have to draft the CBA on your own with the help of our course.
Luckily, our step-by-step CBA course will help you write your examples on your own before they are sent for review. Reviewing the CBA submissions in the course will help you to get lots of ideas about the length and detail you should aim for.
Unfortunately, we require everyone to take the course to qualify for our review service. The course helps to ensure your draft meets a certain level of quality. It also allows our consultants to focus the feedback more on your engineering content and less on submission compliance.
Great question. Our CommentatorAITM can review any engineering discipline.
A review from one of our consultants is limited to the following areas:
- civil (structural, infrastructure, geotechnical)
- mechanical (HVAC, fire protection)
- electrical (power).
- biomedical
- chemical (process, mining, metallurgy and petroleum, extractive metallurgy)
Unfortunately, no.
We can't guarantee that after you use our course/review you won't have to fulfil other requirements from your association. There are a lot of factors out of our control (e.g. the experience you have gained, if you were educated in Canada or abroad, if you implement our recommendations or not).
Our goal is to give you the best tools, examples, support and recommendations to make your CBA submission the strongest it can be and ensure it is clear and concise. By doing this, you'll reduce your chances of having to fulfill other requirements.
The start and end dates for each competency refers to the time period for just that project. It should be a minimum of 1 month in duration.
Yes.
Validation is critical to your CBA submission. Pick your validators wisely. It should be someone who knows your experience well and has a reputation for doing things on time. However, if your validators are not validating your experience for any reason (e.g. retired, sick), you can contact your association to have them switched.
Sure! If your association does not initially accept your CBA, we'll put our entire team of P.Eng. consultants on the mission of helping you to resubmit it (at no additional cost). We will review your submission and suggest specific ways you can rewrite each rejected competency to make it stronger and more in line with the expectations. This might mean making your existing competencies stronger or helping you to brainstorm better examples from your work history.
If your association still doesn't accept your resubmitted competencies, we'll issue you a full refund plus an additional $100.
Our guarantee page allows you to claim your refund and an additional $100.
What makes our 34 CBA course unique?
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With us, you'll submit your best 34 CBA.
Option 1 - CommentatorAITM
($99 + tax. One-time purchase for one month of unlimited access. No recurring monthly charges.)
- Get instant feedback. Simply paste a competency example and get helpful comments to improve the draft.
- Tailored expertise. The AI tool has been trained by our team and 300+ reviews to ensure you receive precise, context-specific feedback based on the Situation - Action - Outcome framework.
- Comprehensive competency coverage. Review all 34 of your competency examples—no limitations here! Unlike our consultant review, the CommentatorAITM allows multiple evaluations, ensuring that every example is your best.
- Continuous improvement. After you've implemented comments from the AI tool, show it your changes to get feedback on the updates. This iterative process is unique to CommentatorAITM.
- Versatile across all engineering disciplines. CommentatorAITM is designed to provide the tailored feedback you need to excel regardless of your engineering discipline or stream
Option 2 - P.Eng. Consultant Review
($299 for 10 competencies reviewed or $449 for 15 competencies)
- Feedback in 6-7 business days. Our consultants are past clients who have been through the licensing process and work full-time as engineers. This thorough expertise means turnaround times are slightly longer, but the depth of insight you receive is unparalleled.
- Tailored review options. Choose to have either 10 or 15 of your competency examples meticulously reviewed, depending on your specific needs and order.
- One-time comprehensive review. Please note that this service includes a one-time review of your selected examples. While feedback on changes or updates is not included in the initial price, we ensure your first review is as thorough and beneficial as possible.
- Specialized engineering disciplines. Our consultants specialize in the following engineering disciplines
- civil (structural, infrastructure, geotechnical, rail/transit)
- mechanical (HVAC, fire protection, manufacturing)
- electrical (power)
- biomedical
- chemical (process, mining, metallurgy, petroleum / oil & gas, extractive metallurgy)
FAQs
Unfortunately, it’s impossible for us (or anyone else) to take your resume and turn it into a CBA.
A resume is a 1 or 2-page document that summarizes your duties and accomplishments at a very high-level.
A Competency-Based Assessment (CBA) goes deep into the details of specific situations at work. For instance, competency 1.1 Regulation, Codes, and Standards ask you to demonstrate your knowledge of regulations, codes, standards, and safety. This is not something that you would have in your resume and is one example of why you have to draft the CBA on your own with the help of our course.
Luckily, our step-by-step CBA course will show you how to write your situations on your own before they are sent for review. Reviewing the sample CBA in the course will help you to get lots of ideas about the length and detail you should aim for.
Unfortunately, we require everyone to take the course to qualify for our review service. The course helps to ensure your draft meets a certain level of quality. It also allows our consultants to focus the feedback more on your engineering content and less on submission compliance.
Great question. We can only add value to your draft if we have a consultant available in that discipline and stream. The following are disciplines that we currently support:
- civil (structural, infrastructure, geotechnical)
- mechanical (HVAC, fire protection, aerospace, mechatronics)
- electrical (power).
- biomedical
- chemical (process, mining, metallurgy and petroleum, extractive metallurgy)
- computer - software
If your discipline is not listed above, you will still benefit from going through the course to prepare your competency report.
Unfortunately, no.
We can't guarantee that after you use our course/review you won't have to fulfil other requirements from your association. There are a lot of factors out of our control (e.g. the experience you have gained, if you were educated in Canada or abroad, if you implement our recommendations or not).
Our goal is to give you the best tools, examples, support and recommendations to make your CBA submission the strongest it can be and ensure that it is clear and concise. By doing this, you'll be able to reduce your chances of having to fulfill other requirements.
The start and end dates for each competency refers to the time period for just that project. It should be a minimum of 1 month in duration.
Yes.
Validation is critical to your CBA submission. Pick your validators wisely. It should be someone who knows your experience well and has a reputation for doing things on time. However, if your validators are not validating your experience for any reason (e.g. retired, sick), you can contact your association to have them switched.
Sure! If your association does not initially accept your CBA, we'll put our entire team of P.Eng. consultants on the mission of helping you to resubmit it (at no additional cost). We will review your submission and suggest specific ways you can rewrite each rejected competency to make it stronger and more in line with the expectations. This might mean making your existing competencies stronger or helping you to brainstorm better examples from your work history.
If your association still doesn't accept your resubmitted competencies, we'll issue you a full refund plus an additional $100.
Our guarantee page allows you to claim your refund and an additional $100.
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About Us
Here at Practice PPE Exams, we've been helping aspiring engineers get licensed since 2012. Our only goal is to help you get quickly and safely through the licensing process.
Our team of engineers, led by Gavin Simone, P.Eng., are passionate about helping you make sense of the 34 competencies. This course was created to teach you about the 34 competencies, their indicators and show you fully accepted submissions from your peers.
We also have AI tools to help you expand your short examples, shorten your long examples and allow to you generate any competency scenario for any engineering discipline/stream/project you can think of (perfect for brainstorming).
Find out why 4,023 aspiring and licensed engineers worked with us last year.