From: Joseph D. Phillips (josephdphillips@fastmail.us)
Date: Thu Jul 29 2004 - 01:49:04 GMT-3
Stimulants will only make you even more nervous. Don't even bother.
By "edge," I mean industrial experience or the kind of environment for
the kind of concentration this kind of studying requires. Better if you
have both.
Many of the people studying for this bitch are between jobs, voluntarily
or otherwise. They do a lot more reading than I do, and can spend more
time dissecting the technologies represented in the workbooks.
This journey is an emotional roller coaster for them, too. If anything,
there is even more pressure to pass because it's so expensive to make
each attempt and there's not much money, if any, coming in.
That I have a good job is actually prolonging the successful completion
of this journey to CCIE. My work is appropriately stressful given my
level of responsibility and pay rate.
On the other hand, I find it harder and harder to find productive time
to study. I do find time, but I am too tired or too distracted to use it
as well as I otherwise might.
You could pass on your first attempt. Stranger things have happened.
Statistically, though, it's not likely. Postponing it doesn't seem to
make a difference, either, if you talk to people here.
Once you lose your lab virginity, you can commiserate with the rest of
us.
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:29:28 +1000, "marc van hoof"
<mvh@marcvanhoof.com> said:
> "an edge"...
>
> are you trying to sell me amphetamines ? ;)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph D. Phillips [mailto:josephdphillips@fastmail.us]
> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 2:22 PM
> To: marc van hoof; 'Mike Calhoon'; 'group study'
> Subject: RE: Just love driving back and forth to San Jose....
>
>
> This is more a test of stamina than of technical knowledge. Very few
> pass on the first attempt and the ones I know, that have, all had an
> edge.
>
> I don't begrudge anyone whatever advantage one has in passing the exam,
> but I never thought for a moment that this would be anything but a
> gut-wrenching orgy of pain that would stretch over several months. I've
> been at it over 2 years now.
>
> Think of it as a $5,000 exam in four parts. :)
>
>
>
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:19:07 +1000, "marc van hoof"
> <mvh@marcvanhoof.com> said:
> > i'm already nervous about my first lab attempt coming up at the end of
> > august, and emails like this one just make it SO much worse !!! 8-)
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf
> Of
> > Mike Calhoon
> > Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 1:11 PM
> > To: 'Joseph D. Phillips'; 'group study'
> > Subject: RE: Just love driving back and forth to San Jose....
> >
> >
> > I believe it is 3 years after you pass the written, then you have to
> > take
> > the written again. And I think you have to attempt at least once a
> > year.
> > Next week will be my 2 year anniversary. I'm taking attempt 4 in a
> > month.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf
> Of
> > Joseph D. Phillips
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 10:49 PM
> > To: group study
> > Subject: Just love driving back and forth to San Jose....
> >
> > Can someone tell me what the time limit is for passing the lab exam?
> >
> > I can't get that information on the web site.
> >
> > Oh yeah, I flunked attempt number four in SJ on Tuesday.
> >
> > I'd like to post my score report but that's a violation of NDA, right?
> >
> >
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