From: Atlanta CCIE (atlantaccie@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Nov 06 2008 - 18:35:42 ARST
Takes a lot of courage to admit your own shortcomings. Everything happens
for a reason and I wish you goodluck with your 2nd attempt.
On a side note - just keep checking and I am sure you will be able to find
dates in december depending how ready you are.
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Shaughn Smith <
Shaughn.Smith@za.verizonbusiness.com> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Unfortunately I failed my 1st attempt @ SP on the 24th of October.
>
> I really walked out of the lab feeling that I did pretty well but alas, it
> was
> not to be. I did pretty well in some sections and worse than I thought in
> others. There were 2 questions I could not answer due to my own stupidity
> at
> not studying that subject and that cost me a good few points.
>
> I also made a lot of stupid mistakes and those cost me dearly. But on the
> bright side, my time management was good, I finished with 2 hours to go. I
> can
> now see that the most important thing I need to work on is concentration.
> If
> it wasn't for those stupid mistakes I probably would have passed the lab
> easily.
> I will chalk the 1st attempt down as a learning experience and move on from
> here. I have already booked for the 16th of January back @ RTP as this was
> the
> soonest booking I could get at the time.
>
> I have gone over the areas I didn't know and I am feeling much more
> confident
> about the 2nd time around.
> The Proctor (Howard) was very good, unfortunately I think I didn't ask him
> enough clarifying questions on sections I was a little unsure on, that
> won't
> happen again.
>
> We see all the posts of people passing (and rightfully so) and not many
> about
> people who have not passed (don't like using the word fail :) ), so thought
> I
> would admit to my own shortcomings.
>
> I feel that I probably went into the lab too confident and possibly
> underestimated how hard it would be. It wasn't an unfair lab, but it was a
> little harder than I let myself believe it would be.
>
> So, that's my sad story. Onto bigger and better things (like passing the
> 2nd
> time around)
>
> Cheers
>
>
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