From: Duncan Maccubbin (duncan.maccubbin@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu Mar 29 2007 - 08:28:06 ART
"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."
If I had a nickel for every time I have seen this :). The devil is in the details.
"Could I have gotten someone else's score report?"
Best case of denial ever! :).
-----Original Message-----
>From: Ryan <ryan95842@gmail.com>
>Sent: Mar 28, 2007 7:06 PM
>To: Cisco certification <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
>Subject: Frustrating - failed 1st attempt
>
>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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