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A 5-Week Study Plan for the SCE FE Electrical Part
How to spread 5 weeks over the 9 electrical-part topics by question count, starting with circuits, power and electronics, and a full 50-question, 180-minute mock.
- Questions and time
- 50 questions · 180 minutes
- Pass mark
- You must pass both the general part and your discipline part
- Exam fee
- SAR 400 for the general part and SAR 400 for the discipline part
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Start with 10 free questions to find what needs more work. No sign-up, with answer explanations.
Try 10 free questions and see your levelLast checked: 1 November 2026. Question counts from the table of specifications in the Electrical Engineering Exam Study Guide.
This plan is for the electrical part (50 questions, 3 hours) and for candidates whose exam is about 5 weeks away. The general part is a separate 90-question session, so keep its own time; one part does not make up for the other. Start with the 10 free questions to see your level, then give extra days to the topics where you score lowest.
The five weeks
| Week | Focus | By the end of the week |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Circuits (8) and electromagnetics (3): 11 questions | Solve Thevenin, node analysis and an RLC response by hand without your notes |
| 2 | Power (7) and control systems (5): 12 questions | Solve a three-phase problem, a power factor problem and a Routh table |
| 3 | Electronics (7) and signal processing (4): 11 questions | Find a transistor's operating region, its Q point and an op-amp gain |
| 4 | Digital systems (6), computer systems (5) and communications (5): 16 questions | A mixed set from weeks 1 to 4 of 25 questions in 90 minutes, and write down every wrong answer |
| 5 | Review of circuits, power and electronics, then the full mock exam | A full mock exam of 50 questions in 180 minutes, then your weakest topics |
Why this order
Circuits, power and electronics are 22 of the 50 questions, so each opens a week and all three return in week 5 for review. Circuits come first because Laplace and transfer functions, which circuits teach, carry into control systems and signal processing. The other topics are spread so each week holds 11 to 16 questions, and the short topics (digital, computer systems, communications) share week 4. In every week, spend 15 to 20 minutes a day on the formulas from earlier weeks.
Week 5 day by day
| Day | Task |
|---|---|
| 1 | Review your mistake list and the lowest-scoring topics, starting with circuits, power and electronics |
| 2 | Practise three weak topics, 10 questions each |
| 3 | Full mock exam: 50 questions in 180 minutes, in one sitting, with an approved calculator |
| 4 | Review every question in the mock, including those you got right by guessing |
| 5 | Weak topics again, 10 questions at a time |
| 6 | Short review of formulas and English terms |
| 7 | Rest. Prepare your admission card and calculator |
How to read your mock score
The mock shows your score in each topic, so you can see which topics pull you down. A topic of 8 questions such as circuits moves your total far more than a topic of 3 such as electromagnetics, so fix the large low-scoring topics first. Keep to about 3.6 minutes a question: answer, mark and move on, since a wrong answer is not penalised according to the study guide.
Finished reading? Try a set of questions
Start with 10 free questions to find your weakest units. Keep practising with the full question bank and mock exams from SAR 26.