From: Salahaddin Elshekeil (salah.elshekeil@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Mar 20 2009 - 08:40:52 ART
congrat,
well done !!!
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Ravi Singh <way2ccie@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Brilliant Job Gaurav !!!! Very well Done.. Congratulations ..!!!!!
>
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:21 AM, GAURAV MADAN
> <gauravmadan1177@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Friends
> >
> > No no .... not to bug you all this time .
> > This time I am mailing to you people .. to share my good news . I got my
> > longggg awaited number this time on 17th March . The number is 23863.
> Wow
> > .. what a feel
> >
> > This time I am gonna write a big mail ( yeah something diff from my short
> > stupid questions and replies to this group)
> >
> > I didnt took any shortcut towards this goal . CCNA , then CCIP , then
> CCIE .
> > Did my CCIE written on 31 Dec 2007 ( again .. wow ! what a day to choose
> ).
> > gave my 1st attempt on 16 Sep 2008 in Bangalore . Was 100 % sure that I
> have
> > got my number . After the exam ; I had called my mother and sister also
> that
> > I have made it !
> > But when the result came . I saw a FAIL over there . Was hard to accept
> that
> > but yes that was the fact . I got low on 2 sections and I accepted that .
> >
> > Gathered all the courage and said to myself .. Gaurav ! 1 more time ..
> lets
> > do it !
> > I literally had no social life since I cleared my CCIE written . and
> > continuing the same after failure in lab ..... was a real tough decision
> .
> > And that too when u know that journey is not smooth ahead ! but i went
> and
> > straight away booked the date exactly 6 months away . 16 Sep ----> 17
> March.
> >
> > 1 thing i need to tell u all .... i follow this grp very closely .. i
> talk
> > to myself a lot and always say to myself " gaurav ! if you can answer
> even
> > 50 % of questions in your area .. u are making a improvement" . Yeah yeah
> !
> > my replies are not those many in number because i always wanna give 100 %
> > accurate reply :) In last 6 months i have realised that yes i was making
> > improvement .. atleast i could make sense what ppl are asking in grp and
> > what problems is faced in this particular scenario .
> >
> > Regarding differences in 1st and 2nd attepmt .. what i did differently
> ...
> > hmm .... nothing much .....
> > But the approach was very diff .. At 1st attempt .. i was thinking what
> if i
> > fail .. what if i dont make .. will i still continue ? ... At 2nd attempt
> ;
> > my thinking was " if i fail this time ; i wil go ahead and buy diff
> vendor
> > material ..but i wont leave this in middle .. If I pass ; what track next
> :)
> > "
> >
> > In 1st attempt ; I was labbing ; labbing ;labbing and labbing till the
> last
> > night as well .. On 2nd attempt ; I left my rack in last 2 days . I have
> > got a lot of my white paper notes which I have jotted down during this
> 1.3
> > years of practice ....i was giving 2 hr daily to these for last 10 days
> and
> > last 2 days was just revison . no labbing .
> >
> > I was lucky to have a nice frnd circle with me who always keep on
> encoraging
> > me towards achieving the goal and i finally met their expectations .
> > 1 advice .. dont stick to 1 vendor workbook and think you are done ! Keep
> > rotating .. yeah this will require some money but if possible do it !
> >
> > The IEWB Mock Labs are wonderful . These give u an idea where u stand ,
> Ppl
> > might say that the day matters ; mock lab dont .. But I dont agree to
> those
> > .
> > I mailed Anthony from IEWB after taking my mock lab and seeing a score of
> 60
> > over there and asking why my marks was unnecessarily deducted .. H e gave
> a
> > wonderful reason saying the last thing these ppl want is to give a wrong
> > self confidence to someone that they are doing good ! And I agree .. I
> > accepted that and worked really hard .
> >
> > Anthony , Scott , Narbik , Jared ..... U ppl are real chaps .. sometimes
> i
> > wonder .. How many hours you ppl have in a day ? huh ? :)
> > Narbik ; your long posts in this grp are simply awesome .. i always save
> > them in my study folder . Keep on mailing them :)
> > I realy felt lucky whenever you guys replied to my queries .
> >
> > For all the people working on CCIE .. Good Luck ! Dont leave it till you
> > achieve this .
> > Thanks a lot for all the support that I got on this group .
> >
> > Gaurav Madan
> > CCIE # 23863
> >
> >
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