The FE exam, the first in the two-part engineering licensing process, is taken typically by upper-level students or recent graduates in April or October. This eight-hour exam is closed-book except for a handout provided in the examination room. The exam is divided into morning and afternoon sessions. The morning exam, with 120 multiple-choice problems, is the same for everyone. In the afternoon, examinees must choose to take a discipline-specific (DS) or a general exam, each with 60 multiple-choice problems. The Discipline-Specific Reviews are used to study for the afternoon DS exams.