From: Joseph Brunner (joe@affirmedsystems.com)
Date: Tue Dec 02 2008 - 14:36:23 ARST
You have to just keep trying; again and again and again
You will eventually get a lab that has all the right sweet spots for you and
you'll pass. Period... I was the same way ;)
Who cares how many times you take, or whether it's one or ten? It's just
money.
You can spend it on something you care about, will help you in your career,
or you can send it to the IRS where it will end up funding some fat cat
banker's holiday bonus. That's how I see it.
Tough times require tough people.
Now how can you increase your odds of passing?
-You need to know the new doc links better.
-You need to make your own scenarios using it.
-You need to use every second in there to re-read the test. Leaving one hour
early is a huge mistake. (Even if the Girl is crazy for you and wont stop
calling you bring flowers anyway....)
When you're ready to go back I'll be happy to do a webex with you and go
over a few things on my dynarack, just unicast me;
-Joe
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Jason Morris
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 11:18 AM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: My Next Step?
Ok, I need some advice.
I posted back in the beginning of November I failed my second attempt. I'll
just run through my experience real quick as it was covered in more detail
in the previous post. I didn't feel like my first attempt went well at all,
they blew me away on some of the 'secondary' topics covered and I got a
couple of 0's for some entire sections. Time management was an issue and i
was typing frantically up until they called time. I did very well on the
routing and switching sections which held my grade up. My best guess is I
scored somewhere in the low 70's. My second attempt I felt went very well,
i finished the lab in 5 hours and reviewed for 2 hours picking up some
points I skipped the first time through. I walked out an hour early feeling
like I had ~95 points and 'knowing' I had at least 85. When I got home my
score report was waiting on me and I did worse than I did the first time
scoring somewhere in the mid 60's.
So here is my problem, my second attempt I didn't see any topics that
confused me. I thought I did well, so I don't have anything technical to
work on. (well, you always have things to work on but you know what i
mean) I feel like I'm fighting a ghost. I mean how can i productively
approach this when the first time i felt horrible about it and did ~ok~ and
the second time i felt great and did crappy... Other than just sign back up
and roll the dice again I'm not sure what to do.
Advice?
Thanks
Jason Morris
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