From: Digital Yemeni (digital.yemeni@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Mar 29 2007 - 08:57:06 ART
Duncan,
while you made me really laugh i also urge you not to put the salt on the
guy's wound! ;-)
On 3/29/07, Duncan Maccubbin <duncan.maccubbin@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> "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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-- Best Regards! Digital, CCIE# to be assigned by Cisco when it collects enough $$ out of me! :p
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