From: David Mann (dmann73702@elmore.rr.com)
Date: Tue Nov 04 2008 - 12:35:35 ARST
Wow, this sounds too similar to my last attempt. I thought I had done
very well but when I saw my results I was blown away.
The last time I sat the lab was 2 years ago but I did very well then
and to see that I didn't this time is confusing.
On Nov 4, 2008, at 12:04 AM, Jason Morris 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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