From: Darby Weaver (ccie.weaver@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Nov 04 2008 - 09:55:53 ARST
The joys of the CCIE Lab...
Trust me it happens.
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:29 AM, stephen skinner <stephenski@gmail.com>wrote:
> hi,
>
> i am in the same boat as jonny ,
>
> when i cam back from my lab , i also got a score on my IGP section which
> didnt seem to make sense.
>
> i double checked everything , on the day and ran full TCL-type scripts on
> all the switches and routers..
>
> checked with the proctor about what should and should not work ...
>
> and to the best of my knowledge i fullfilled the requirements
>
> but it appears i did not !!
>
> my question to everyone is
>
> where do i go from here ?? study-wise
>
> any study tips for getting myself over this hill ???
>
> TIA
>
> stephen
>
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Jonny English <redkidneybeans@gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Its hard - I know, but I don't think a re-read is going to help. The odds
> > are not great and its expensive as well for very little chance of
> passing.
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Jason Morris <mcnever@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > ok so i just got back from RTP and failed my second attempt. i felt
> > really
> > > confident (as i'm sure a lot of people do) walking out of there. let
> me
> > > just explain what happened and what i'm seeing.
> > >
> > > i was finished with my first pass through on the lab by 1:00pm. I spent
> > the
> > > next 2 hours finishing up some of things i skipped and going back
> through
> > > the lab from front to back verifying everything. by my count i should
> > have
> > > had somewhere in the mid 90's as far as points go. i had a couple of
> > > couple
> > > of thing left that seemed really off the wall and i wasn't sure what
> they
> > > asking for and no help from the proctors... so i hear in the back in
> the
> > > head 'stop dummy', i've heard 1000 times that a lot of people are doing
> > > good
> > > and break everything trying to get those last 2 points. so, retardely
> ,
> > > write, reload everything AGAIN, and check everything again and leave at
> > > 3:00... BTW its really hard to write 'and leave at 3:00' after seeing
> the
> > > score report.
> > >
> > > so i get home and the email is there, i login and check the score
> > report...
> > > not good... i mean really not good. i guess i can't share the score
> > report,
> > > but lets say, i really feel like if i'd have had THAT much wrong with
> my
> > > IGP
> > > my testing never would have worked, not to mention i went back through
> *
> > > every* section....
> > >
> > > so i guess to sum this whole thing up... would you request a reread. i
> > > mean
> > > this isn't like 'hey i need 2 more points to pass, i'll see if i can
> > squeak
> > > through with a reread' this is 'WOW WTF happened', is this the typical
> > > failure? it might sound silly but i really wonder if a peer didn't
> come
> > up
> > > on the reload or something.
> > >
> > > anyway, let me know what you thing and feel free to reticule me for
> > leaving
> > > an hour early. i'm going to bed to cry myself to sleep now ;)
> > >
> > > Jason
> > >
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