OT: Famous Myths (was Re: ccie lab rescore)

From: bgrafals (bgrafals@knology.net)
Date: Tue Feb 25 2003 - 18:29:08 GMT-3


Loch Ness Monster, Big Foot, Yeti, New CCIE based on lab rescore, etc.

At least, I don't know anyone who has actually seen one of these.

On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:13:39 -0600, Mark Miller <markmiller@alltel.net>
wrote :

> Sorry about the lab. This happened to me
> back in November. I took the lab and KNEW
> I had passed, only to find out I had failed. I
> requested a rescore and it didn't change
> anything. Not only that, it took a full month to
> get the new score back. It was a TOTAL waste
> of money.
>
> Don't let this discourage you though. Keep on trying
> and you'll eventually get there.
>
>
> Mark Miller
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Songbin Wei" <sbwei_2000@yahoo.com>
> To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 7:45 PM
> Subject: ccie lab rescore
>
>
> > I took the lab exam last Friday and finished
> > everything shortly after lunch (in less than 4.5
> > hours) I thought that I definitely would pass. But
> > today's score report shocked me (it's a long painful
> > waiting, almost 3 days. Don't take the lab on Friday
> > if your heart is not very strong). Although for major
> > parts, like routing/switching, I got full marks. But
> > IOS security features, ISDN's section's score are much
> > lower than my expectation. In addition, I thought the
> > voice part should be 100% but only got 40%. I can make
> > all required calls and knew what tricks it was trying
> > to test. But still, only 40%, completely shocked. This
> > was my most confident part.
> >
> > I did a weighted caculation, my overall percentage is
> > around 78%. I heard that by getting 80% you can pass.
> > So I may try a rescore. But I heard that rescore is
> > just a waste of money.
> >
> > Anybody got sucess by rescoring? And how long will it
> > take?
> >
> > BTW, be extremely careful in the exam even for the
> > familiar topics. I did miss a few things which
> > absolutely shouldn't miss, especially when I have more
> > than 3.5 hours to double check it. Just was too
> > confident. :(
> >
> > Thanks in advance.



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