From: Joseph D. Phillips (josephdphillips@fastmail.us)
Date: Thu Jul 15 2004 - 00:12:16 GMT-3
I believe the average number of failures prior to passing is three or
four. I'm going for my fourth on the 27th of this month.
Many of us have been through the same ordeal. You never know what you
missed, and your 2nd or 3rd failure at it, if you're average, isn't
going to leave you feeling like you've gotten better, even if you have.
The score reports are meaningless. I don't know why Cisco even bothers
with it.
I'll tell you what works for me. Every week or so I get together with a
study buddy. It's the only thing that keeps me sane. We don't
necessarily study all that hard, but it's great to go over what we do
understand and try to help each other learn what we don't.
Several times I've come close to quitting. It's like the war in Iraq. I
can't pull out until the job is done.
Hang in there. You'll make it somehow. Everyone that sticks to it does.
----- Original message -----
From: "Sally Crawford" <crawford0982003@yahoo.com>
To: "ccielab" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 19:36:15 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: How to move forward from a Lab failure ?
Hi
I recently sat the ccie lab exam and failed. I felt confident after
departing the exam, and I felt that I had a good crack at it.
Unfortunately this was not enough to pass. To some extent its easier to
fail and to know you failed , then you know where to improve. But when
you leave confident , reflection on the exam sometimes does not yield
too much..
I was thinking of what to do now..... I defiantly will attempt the exam
until I pass, but what to do to improve is somewhat of a mystery.
Two schools of thought are , do more and more practice labs, and the
second is to isolate study to the areas lacking in experience/knowledge
as reflected in the score report.
On top of that I need to also focus on the new 12.2T IOS.
My train of though now is either :
1. to buy the ccie R/S lab workbook work through that, study the 12.2T
feature and then sit the exam again
2. buy the internetwork Expert book, work through that and then sit the
exam or even
3. Study the 12.2T feature + areas lacking and then sit the exam
Unfortunately the score report is a percentage score, in each area
tackled in the exam, and does not reflect weight of the section. So if
you get 1 out of 2 marks you are 50% proficient , which sometimes
doesn't help.
Not too sure what I should do....anyone have any ideas.
Best Regards
Sally
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