Nathaniel Stodard<br />SCJP, SCJD, SCWCD, SCBCD, SCDJWS, ICAD, ICSD, ICED
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Nathaniel Stodard<br />SCJP, SCJD, SCWCD, SCBCD, SCDJWS, ICAD, ICSD, ICED
.... I think I ended up finishing with 40 minutes left on the clock, even with a multi-pass strategy that other people are mentioning.
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Originally posted by Nathaniel Stoddard:
Oh, well, you go through the test several times.
The first pass, you pick off the easy answers and just mark the harder ones for the next pass. So, the idea is at the end of your first pass you have a very good idea how hard the test is and can gauge things more accurately at that point.
Second pass: answer the rest of the questions like you regularly would.
Third pass: (everything's answered by now) go through and "double-check" or something like that.
Strangely, with mock exams, I was simply going through one question at a time, so no passes. In the actual exam, I guess I actually only did 2 passes. First pass just answered almost all the questions (since most seemed pretty easy), and then second pass I thought a little more about several problems that I held off on (only about 5 out of the 60? 61? (hoping something later in the test would clarify something I had my doubts about), and then the last pass (ok 3 passes) I had to spend a bit of time on one or two problems. (I couldn't for the life of me remember what 2^16 was!I had to sit there and multiply 2*2*2*....*2. So, um yeah, memorize the ranges of those data types.
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