From: Anthony Sequeira (Anthony_Sequeira@skillsoft.com)
Date: Thu Aug 14 2008 - 11:48:59 ART
You are about to get a ton of replies with really helpful advice on what
to do in that last week, and verification technique tips.
I want to comment on your first statement, however, and I apologize in
advance if I am reading too much into it.
DO NOT START TO FREAK OUT!
While nervous energy (butterflies) can be actually useful, there is
nothing that panic/freaking out is going to buy you at this point.
If the worst possible result were to occur in your first attempt (FAIL),
are you going to give up? I am guessing the answer is ---- NO!
So you WILL pass the lab. No worries.
Really get excited that you are about to a "full" assessor lab that will
not have grading issues, and you get the benefit of a live proctor and
all the free beverages!
When I got to the point that I genuinely looked forward to my date at
RTP - I passed. And I can tell you that on the day I passed, I never
thought of failure once! On a day that I WOULD fail the lab, I can
recall thinking, "oh man, I am going to fail this" throughout the day.
I sure hope this post helps.
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Morris, Jason L.
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 10:25 AM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: 1 week to go
Ok, I'm sure this is an out there question since no one REALLY knows my
strengths and weaknesses but I'm starten to freak out so I have to
ask...
I'm scheduled for the lab in a week and I'm not sure how I spend that
last week before the test. I've spent the past week going over
multicast and IPv6 which I think I was shaky on. I think I'm alright
with the core stuff, I'm sure they'll throw some things at me I haven't
see but I usually don't have trouble finding things on a the DocCD
unless I'm just completely off base and looking in the wrong area. I'm
finding most of the time when I get something wrong on a practice/mock
lab it's because I'm misunderstanding/misinterpreting the question.
I've taken both Assessors, I took B first and only got 46%, after crying
for an hour and reviewing the report there were a few grading script
problems, but most of it was 'a topic I've had problems with' and
misreading the questions (I'm good with that topic now BTW). The second
one Assessor A, there were again some grading problems but after those I
did much better than the first time around and got ~72
I feel like I also have a problem review my own work, when I do I'm
basically just verifying that I configured what I thought was right the
first time. I think I need to be able to read the question the second
time around 'with new eyes' if get what I'm saying.
So that's kind of where I'm at... any thoughts? Am I answering my own
question and not seeing it?
Jason Morris
Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net
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