From: Joseph Brunner (joe@affirmedsystems.com)
Date: Wed Apr 30 2008 - 11:04:02 ART
First, Mike let apologize for our disgusting policies towards visitors. I
walk past the World Trade Center site everyday. I don't know how that
horrible tragedy has to do with getting visas... Again it's the weak paying
for the mistakes of the strong (but that's how this country is setup) Sorry.
Just keep chuggin'
Perhaps next time try Brazil? Same timezone, right?
-Joe
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Mike
Haddad
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 1:54 AM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Failed third Attempt in Brussels with a score of 76 to 79
Hello All,
Like everybody, I wished to writed PASSED CCIE CCIE# in the subject.
Unfortunately, I failed with a very close score. I really put lots of time
the
third attempt to understand all the core technologies and fill all my
weaknesses. One of the big reasons I am failing is because of jet lag. I
live
in Canada as permemnant resident. Getting to USA is impossible. I submitted
a
visitor visa application since 1 year and a half and they never got back to
me, neither yes or no. I am from originally from the middleeast , Lebanon,
and
that's explains it. I couldn't wait flew to Dubai and to Brussels for the
exam. The exam used to start as 11:00 pm vancouver time in Dubai and it
started 1 hour late in Brussels which was 12:00am vancouver time.
The last attempt was last Sunday in Brussels. The last three hours I felt
that my brain is no more productive and up to speed. I finished the lab in
7.5
hours and had only 0.5 hours to review and verified as much as I can. I know
that I shouldn't have failed. I understood all the technologies and worked
on
all my weaknesses.
For me, I won't give up. But the issue is when and how can I do it again.
Jet lag is an issue and money for me is an issue. I am self funding this and
I
used the long way by purchasing internetworkexpert end to end CCIE
self-paced
track. Till now 14000$. I can't attend boot camps as welll due to money and
Visa issues.
My score reported showed that all the core was 90% correct. It is only
the
final questions and easy ones I failed due to the jet lag. I requested a
reread for my exam hoping that it may change somethings because in IOS
Services the scoring was 25% which I consider very low and couldn't believe
it. I hope the reread changes something.
Congratulations for all who passed,
Remark: If you'er questioning how did I know my score, I counted how many
questions I had in each section. From the scoring % in each section I was
able
to figure out how many questions I missed. The score ended up in a rane of
76
to 79.
Regards,
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