Passed SCJP with 91%

[Anupama Dhir]

I passed the exam an hour back with 91%. I am thrilled.
As for my preparation-in October last year I did a course in Java from Sun Microsystems. Did a lot of coding for creating GUI's.Then took a 1 month holiday. I initially planned to take the test in December but postponed it to today. I read Bill Brogden's exam prep and attempted the questions at the end of each chapter. I stumbled on to Maha Anna's wonderful site which was a real eye opener for me. I tried some mock exams but scored only around 55%. I ordered JCertify but soon found it was not enough.Less than two weeks ago, I ordered JQPlus and spent all my evenings taking the exams. I started scoring well towards the end-Test7 scored 71%, Test8 scored 78% and Random Test scored 88%(took it yesterday).
I slept well last night and attacked the exam this morning. The test was straight forward but I did get a bit confused with the questions on Layout Manager. I think one should code and see the results of different layout managers and check and learn the resizing behaviour for all of them.
There were no questions on Applets and the questions on the util package were quite simple.

[Dominic Steng�rd]

Congratulations Anupama!
91% is a really nice score, good luck in your Java career!
Regards
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Dominic Steng�rd
Sun Certified Java 2 Programmer
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[Jane Griscti]

Congratulations Anupama
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Jane Griscti
Sun Certified Java 2 Programmer

[prakash sainani]

he u got a veri good score congrats!
if u don't mind tell me how u prepared and how much programming experience u have

[Anupama Dhir]

Originally posted by prakash sainani:
he u got a veri good score congrats!
if u don't mind tell me how u prepared and how much programming experience u have

I think I have already explained how I prepared for the exam.
I have around 2 years of programming experience plus some programming courses which I did back in college

[shilpa gupta]

congrats Anupama
tell me werethere q on gridbagLayout where we need to analyse the results.
how much did you prepare in gridbaglayout.
and how were the q on I/O
shilpa

[Anupama Dhir]

Originally posted by shilpa gupta:
congrats Anupama
tell me werethere q on gridbagLayout where we need to analyse the results.
how much did you prepare in gridbaglayout.
and how were the q on I/O
shilpa

Yes there were questions on GridBagLayout pertaining to the resizing behaviour. I suggest you code and see for u'rself how the different layout managers behave specifically when resized. The questions on I/O were straight forward. Learn all the constructors.

[prakash s]

congrats !
u gotta veri good score!
best of luck 4 ur future!
plz tell me how manee questions were of the form :what's the output for this piece of code?
were there tricky questions like Double.NEGATIVE_INFINITY*-1
& so on?
how did u filled the blanks ?
did u include quotes 4 all ans in the fiil in the blank questions?
how manee mock tests did u give?
soree these r a lot manee questioins but plz do reply
thanks

[anil bisht]

hi prakash
i cleared SCJP today and was not very happy with the score i got ..was expecting 90+ got 84
u know i got 4 fill in the blanks and i put quotes in all of them and got all of them wrong ... so be careful in the fill in the blanks questions .
HTH
anil

[Anupama Dhir]

Originally posted by prakash s:
congrats !
u gotta veri good score!
best of luck 4 ur future!
plz tell me how manee questions were of the form :what's the output for this piece of code?
were there tricky questions like Double.NEGATIVE_INFINITY*-1
& so on?
how did u filled the blanks ?
did u include quotes 4 all ans in the fiil in the blank questions?
how manee mock tests did u give?
soree these r a lot manee questioins but plz do reply
thanks

There were lots of questions where u had to tell the output of the program, but there no questions like
Double.NEGATIVE_INFINITY*-1
For, the fill in the blanks I used quotes since the result was a string like "abc".
I did around 15-20 mock tests

[Ajith Kallambella]

Hearty congratulations Anupama!
Best wishes,
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Ajith Kallambella M.
Sun Certified Programmer for the Java�2 Platform.
IBM Certified Developer - XML and Related Technologies, V1.

[Shan Karawita]

My Congradulations Anupama...
It is really cool score ....
Keep it up....

Rgds,
Shan.