From: Michael Popovich (m.popovich@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Wed Jul 17 2002 - 19:58:21 GMT-3
I definitely understand the feeling here.
The main thing that got me over the hump was that I focused back on the
basics and had a very good understanding of how each protocol worked and
interacted with each other. Mainly BGP and IGP interaction.
Then I took the statement of "ask the proctor" to the MAX. Since I
understood how things were designed to work then I could ask better
questions of the proctor and even provide multiple solutions to them for
their comments. If you can do that then the proctors are very helpful. I
wore a path from my station to the proctor on my last exam and it does
pay off. Clarification is a big issue but if you don't know exactly what
about the question is unclear or what your options are then you can't
ask the right questions.
It is tough to take defeat. I came so close to passing my 1st time that
I took it again in 4 weeks only to get about the same marks. Waited 3
months and went back to basics to pass it on my 3rd attempt.
MP
CCIE #9599
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Scott Hoover
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 4:25 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: RE: First attempt failed in San Jose
Give it a couple of days and look deeper. The
mistakes you made will hit like a brick in the
forehead. The key is in the details.
HTH,
Scott
CCIE #9340
--- George Stylianou <georges@is.co.za> wrote:
> Hi Jaspreet,
>
> Sorry to hear that - not sure if you saw my email
> detailing my experience.
>
> I too wasn't happy with the grading of my sections
> either - most of which I
> expected to get the full marks for.
>
> If Cisco doesn't want to accept the working
> solutions we provide them, then
> the exam should not be so vague and state what it is
> they are looking for.
>
> Keep at it, that's what im doing.
>
> Regards,
> George
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: steven.j.nelson@bt.com
> [mailto:steven.j.nelson@bt.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 21:34
> To: jasbhati@cisco.com; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: RE: First attempt failed in San Jose
>
>
> Jaspreet
>
> If you search the archives this has happened to many
> people, including me.
>
> Stick at it... is the message
>
> Thanks and HTH
>
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jaspreet Bhatia [mailto:jasbhati@cisco.com]
> Sent: 17 July 2002 18:46
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: First attempt failed in San Jose
>
>
> Folks,
> I took my first attempt at the Lab
> exam yesterday in San
> Jose and failed . I did the exam very well and
> attempted all of it and
> produced the desired results . I am not satisfied
> with the grading and was
> 100 % sure that I would make it through. Should I
> go in to have the exam
> re-evaluated or not ? I have spent about 10 months
> preparing for this and
> done every possible resource of labs ( commercial
> and cisco internal) ,
> read all the books two to three times. Read all the
> samples and tips from
> CCO. Even in the exam , I did all the tasks that
> were required of me and
> got the results needed. My question is if there are
> multiple ways of doing
> the same task , is it that they are looking for a
> task to be done in a
> certain way or are they just looking for working
> results . If the latter
> is true , I should have passed . Please advise me as
> I feel very lost and
> without a clue...
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Jaspreet
>
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