Re: First attempt failed in San Jose

From: Jaspreet Bhatia (jasbhati@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Jul 19 2002 - 15:31:12 GMT-3


   
Hi Katson,

                     Thanks for your very encouraging words . I am starting
up my preparation again and hope to give my next attempt at the lab exam in
two to three months . And again I value your advice .

Regards,

Jaspreet

At 11:28 AM 7/18/2002 +0800, Katson PN Yeung wrote:
>Jaspreet,
>
>That happened to me on my 2nd attempt. I was able to finish it by 3:30pm
>and then use the rest of the time to check the results. I was so
>confident..... but on the next day I check the result, I failed. I then
>spent approx. 3 months to think and to solve my failures. I eventually
>found most of them, and yes, all of them are my mistakes. The e-proctor
>accurately evaluated my config. I think that "hunting for the unknown
>mistake" is a very important part of this expert level exam.
>
>I strongly believe you have to put aside your bias, then think deeply what
>are the mistakes. The marking on the web should provide enough hints to
>you. Don't go there again if you cannot find all of your mistakes, because
>the same story will happen again.
>
>Rgds,
>K a t s o n
>CCIE # 9620
>
>At 01:46 AM 7/18/2002, Jaspreet Bhatia wrote:
>>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
>>



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