From: Anthony Sequeira (asequeira@internetworkexpert.com)
Date: Tue Nov 04 2008 - 16:32:45 ARST
Hi Jason!
First, thanks so much for sharing your exam experience with us at
Group Study. It is of great benefit to everyone.
Here are some thoughts that I have about your experience and your
questions. Please keep in mind that this is a VERY personal journey;
how to prep, how to take the lab, how to deal with things after a
failing attempt is all VERY personal. Some of my personal thoughts
might work for you and others, and some might not:
7 - In your situation, there is simply no way in hell I pay for
a re-grade. As you pointed out, it was not a matter of a couple of
points that failed you. If Cisco provided a bunch of feedback
regarding your performance in the re-grade report, then it would be a
different matter. But since they are merely going to confirm that you
did indeed fail, save the money for more rack time, or the Amazon
Kindle. :-)
7 - Do not get mad, get even! I know it is tough to do right
now, but do not let anger distract you from getting this thing done.
If you were able to finish with that much time to spare, you are WAY
ahead of the curve for passing.
7 - I always get nervous when I hear about a candidate that
finished with hours and hours to spare. Why? Well because I think
there could have been a lot of task misinterpretation going on and
little things missed here or there
7 - I also always get nervous when I hear about skipped tasks.
Many times our logic of I do not need these 6 points anyways (two
skipped 3 point tasks for example) turns out to be a disaster. We
always tend to miss points here and there that we assumed we achieved.
In your case, you certainly had time to attempt the tasks that were
dangerous to the rest of your network. The day I passed, I gave it the
college try on every single taskI was a point greedy point monger!
I was obsessed with building as big a cushion as possible!
Please let us know here at GS if you need ideas on how to proceed at
this point. You will probably want to change up your study approach a
bit, as you certainly do not want to go insane (keep doing the same
thing expecting a different result!).
Anthony J. Sequeira, CCIE #15626, CCSI #23251
Senior CCIE Instructor
asequeira@internetworkexpert.com
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On Nov 4, 2008, at 1:04 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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