COREN Registered Engineer study plan

Map the COREN legal framework onto a one-page diagram: the enabling statute, the Council's composition and tenure, its registration, accreditation, examination and disciplinary powers.

Distinguish the registration categories and the qualification, experience and documentation evidence each one demands.

Trace the full disciplinary pathway from complaint through investigation to tribunal hearing, sanction and appeal, noting where natural justice and due process attach.

List the statutory duties of a registered engineer towards the Council, including seal/stamp use, notification of changes and consequences of unregistered practice.

Summarise the regulations and codes of practice that bind engineering practice in Nigeria, covering public procurement, building control, environmental and workplace safety instruments.

Decode the professional code of conduct into plain-language duties owed to the public, the client, the employer and the profession.

Classify 30 short conduct scenarios as compliant, non-compliant or ambiguous, citing the specific duty engaged in each case.

Compare negligence, malpractice and breach of contract, and identify who bears liability in each.

Draft written answers to five ethics case problems under 20-minute timed conditions each, structuring them as issue, rule, application and conclusion.

Resolve conflict-of-interest, confidentiality, gifts and bribery dilemmas using a repeatable decision test.

Explain the limits of one's own competence, the duty to decline or refer work, and how to respond when a client presses for a signature.

State the obligations around truthful reporting, whistleblowing on unsafe work, and correcting a professional error once discovered.

Build a project delivery framework covering scope definition, work breakdown, scheduling, cost estimating and progress measurement.

Contrast procurement routes and standard contract forms, and identify the engineer's obligations and authority under each.

Assemble a quality assurance and quality control plan with inspection and test points for a representative project.

Sit a timed 60-question mock covering domains 1 and 2 only.

Construct a risk register for a sample site, scoring likelihood and severity and assigning controls by hierarchy of control.

Apply workplace and environmental safety obligations to common site hazards, including permits to work and incident reporting.

Practise the management behaviours tested in scenario questions: delegation, performance feedback, stakeholder communication and change control.

Diagnose three failing-project case studies and prescribe corrective management actions.

Rehearse the design codes and standards commonly applied in your discipline, noting edition, applicability and where Nigerian requirements override them.

Work 25 design and calculation problems from first principles, showing units, assumptions, load or demand derivation, and safety factors.

Interpret drawings, specifications and schedules, and spot deliberately planted errors in three worked examples.

Analyse failure and defect cases from design, material and construction causes, and state the preventive control for each.

Integrate technical, ethical and legal reasoning in 15 cross-domain scenario questions where a design decision carries a regulatory consequence.

Explain how sustainability, constructability and whole-life cost enter a design choice without compromising safety.

Complete a full-length timed mock exam across all four domains under exam conditions.

Re-audit the error logs from weeks 3, 4 and 6 and rewrite every note that still feels memorised rather than understood.

Drill only the three weakest sub-topics identified from the mock, using fresh problems rather than re-reading notes.

Recite the COREN mandate, conduct duties and disciplinary pathway from memory in under 15 minutes.

Sit a second full-length mock and compare per-domain scores against week 7 to confirm movement.

Prepare exam-day logistics: identification, registration documents, calculator and permitted materials, and a timing strategy per section.