From: keith tokash (ktokash@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Aug 14 2008 - 17:05:46 ART
I got my butt kicked on both assessor labs and beat the beast, their grading
is odd. The last week is tough because you want to study study study, but you
know you should relax and clear your head, so you end up moping around doing
nothing and dwelling on the exam.
I stopped doing labs about 5 days beforehand and instead went over Narbik's
books with a highlighter and re-read all of the features - things I'd
forgotten mostly about like conditional BGP advertisements and some weird
timer thingy here and there. Each day I spent progressively less time
studying, until the day before the exam I just reviewed some notes for about
30 minutes.
To while away the time without fretting I started watching stupid but
entertaining movies that weren't good enough to stick in my head, like Blade.
And my father (BS in chem engineering who took a lot of tough tests) suggested
*two* nights of 8 hours of sleep, not just one. So I used a sleeping pill
both nights, some over the counter thing I had used a few times beforehand to
make sure I wouldn't be groggy the next morning.
At the one-week mark you're really not going to make a big difference by
studying. You should have been doing that 6-12 months beforehand. If that's
the case then groovy, try futiley to relax.
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> Subject: 1 week to go
> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:24:49 -0400
> From: Jasmorris@checkngo.com
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
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> 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...
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> 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
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> 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.
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> So that's kind of where I'm at... any thoughts? Am I answering my own
> question and not seeing it?
>
> Jason Morris
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