From: Josh Covarrubias (shmokin@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Mar 20 2009 - 17:50:15 ART
Congrats on your achievement Gaurav!
Regards,
Josh
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Alexei Monastyrnyi <alexeim73@gmail.com>wrote:
> The spring has come indeed to CCIE land, more and more beautiful numbered
> flowers are blossoming out. :-)
>
> Congats on yours!
>
> A.
>
>
> GAURAV MADAN 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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