I was in Port Dickson on the 21st to 23rd March 2008, contributing to a workshop to prepare a question bank for the Competency Exam, CE (I know, this was a while ago, I just found my notes).
The proposal is that all engineers applying to sit for the Professional Assessment Examination (PAE) after April 1st, 2008 with have to take the CE. It is targeted to have the first CE in June 2008, with at least three sittings per year.
The current outline of the paper is that it will split into 2 parts, a 3 hour general paper and a 3 hour paper related to the candidate’s engineering branch.
The general paper will cover The Engineers Act and Regulations, OSHA and Environment Quality Act (EQA). The branch paper will cover Uniform Building By-Laws (UBBL), and codes and standards pertaining to the engineering branch.
- The general paper will consist of 2 sections. Section A will be 30 true/false answers, while for section B, the candidate has to answer 15 out of 20 subjective questions.
- The branch paper will present 30 questions, out of which 20 need to be answered.
Note: I do not take responsibility if any of the above is altered. Ask your friendly IEM rep.
Wata - Malaysian Oil and Gas Engineer 
Jabba reckons making more exam is good, because only twelve PE in whole of malaysia can use the title – Ir, which constitute 11 people from IEM, and the remaining one is honourary PE/chairman BEM (probably a Yang Amat Berhormat Tan Sri Datuk Paduka Ir Dr xxxxx).