Re: Frustrating - failed 1st attempt

From: Digital Yemeni (digital.yemeni@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Mar 28 2007 - 20:33:14 ART

So sorry to hear that man! I feel what you're feeling right now. This exam
reaaally does not make any sense!! Just to give you an example, during my
first attempt, i did a question according to the requirement (they ask for a
specific way!) and yet i got zero for it! Someone else who answer the
question against the requirement got the full marks! I have no idea what's
going on but all i can say is that they really will assign my number until
they collect enough money out of me! ;-) cheer up man! life is too short! 

-- 
Best Regards!
Digital, CCIE# to be assigned by Cisco when it collects enough $$ out of me!
:p

On 3/29/07, Ryan <ryan95842@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I failed my 1st attempt yesterday at San Jose.
>
> I'm extremely frustrated right now because I walked out believing I had
> nailed it, yet I some how failed and I have no idea what went wrong.
>
> I arrived 2 days head of time and got a great night's sleep before the
> lab.
> I finished the lab in about 5 hours and verified my configurations over
> the
> remaining three hours. Found a few minor issues and did some tweaking. I
> asked the proctors for clarification on almost every question (Proctors
> were
> great and very patient) and got good feedback regarding the questions.
> Reloaded the routers and checked everything again. I left with everything
> working (except for 3pts of IP service which I intentionally did not do)
> and
> feeling like I had just kicked the lab's ass.
>
> Then this morning I wake up to a score report that says I failed. What's
> worse is I have no idea what I could have done wrong. There was nothing on
> the test that was difficult or I was not very familiar with. I even
> verified
> several config's right from the doc CD where the command description read
> almost verbatim what they were asking.
>
> Could I have gotten someone else's score report?
>
> I'm sure many have thought the same thing. I'm just really frustrated as I
> don't know what I did wrong and I have no idea how to prepare for my next
> attempt?
>
> Time management was not an issue, stress was not an issue, technology was
> not an issue, and I'm pretty sure question interpretation was not an
> issue.
> Obviously there was some issue, but how do I find it? How do I found out
> what I did wrong so I can correct it? Maybe technology was an issue. Maybe
> I
> needed more configuration or they were looking for a specific solution.
> How
> could I know?
>
> Aaaaaghghgh!!!!
>
> Sorry for the whining...I'm just really frustrated...
>
>
> -Ryan
>
> (going to try to reconstruct the lab from memory and see if I can
> determine
> where I went wrong)
>
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