International student, came to the USA for grad school in January. Before that I was 5 years out of school. I studied for about a month (about 170 hours)

Resources: linderburg review manual, ncees practice book, islam 750 mechanical and prepfe, all the youtube instructors (Bought the linderburg book, good the rest off posts here)

Linderburg book helped me brush over my math, which was helpful since it made me very confident on the math section I planned to study the whole book but I realized it was gonna take a lot of time and I had already booked the exam so had about 3 weeks.

I then switched to YouTube using Mark mattson videos I did his problems about three times till I was sure it stuck, I also used Greg videos and Jeff Hanson for extra understanding on statics and dynamics

Greg's video also helped me with engineering economics since I had never used the tables before

I used prepfe and Skan City Acadamy on youtube for the basic electrical engineering. Helped with the concepts.

I did every section in the islam book that we had in common with mechanical

I did 20 question a day of the practice exam and made sure I understood the concepts alongside my normal study routine, that was about two weeks before the exam and did it all over again as a full exam three days before my exam and scored 80/100

On the test day I had 52 questions in the first half and 58 in the second I finished the first half in 2 hours 15 minutes and flagged 2 questions , had to guess on those

The second half was difficult after going through the first time I had about 25 questions flagged Thermodynamics was my greatest fear and that made up a whole lot of the flagged questions (I would have studied it harder if I could do it all over again)

Also I didn't take the break so was very exhausted in the second half, I will recommend taking it