Hi Guys,
I have completed the
SCJP 1.4 with 93% this morning (57 out of 61 Qs). Surprisingly i missed questions on Arrays and declarations, which i thought i was strong in.
Per my agreement with Sun, i shouldn't be discussing the questions here, so i just want to tell you guys that please make sure you try all possibilities relating to those.
Now coming to my preparation, I referred K&B, ExamCram, and of course our own Javaranch.com and the mock exams sites posted in Javaranch.
I don't need to reiterate it again, but K&B is the best bet for this exam. Except for some weird combinations, nothing goes out of this book.
For any given chapter, first i used to quickly browse thru Examcram to get the basic idea of that chapter and then i used to read K&B. I have given a total of 3 readings to K&B including yesterday and trust me on this, it's THE best.
Everyday, irrespective of which chapter i planned to study, i used to quickly browse keywords table, collection classes diagram (K&B, i updated that chart with few more things), Operator precedence table (Exam Cram) and Wrapper classes table (K&B). It all takes just 10-15 minutes for you to go thru, but these tables come really handy in the exam.
For the last 3 weeks, i played the Rounds game regularly twice a day and it really improved my concepts. In the last week I was scoring 100% almost all the times.
And another reason for my success is all you people. Some of the questions posted here really helped me in understandings the concepts thoroughly (i still remember one question which was discussed here last week about overriding and overloading method invocations).
My next target is SCWCD.
Thank you Kathy and Bert, for your wonderful book.
Thanks for all your help, guys. Keep going!