Hey everyone. Today I passed the
SCJP 1.4 exam with 91% (and I'm 16 years old). I used K&B (read it twice) and I did the first 7 of Dan's mock exams. On Dan's exams I scored around 80%. I wish I had spent more time doing mock exams, I had spent a weekend preparing for the exam a few months ago then didn't do anything for a while, and I kind of rushed into doing the exam before school started up again so I only had about 4 days to do mock exams. My one tip would be to mark the questions you are unsure about when you're doing a mock exam and review the answer even if you get it right, don't just focus on the ones you got wrong.
Also, my comments on the exam: It was about the difficulty I expected. Some of the
thread questions had tricky/complicated wording, but almost all the other questions were clear. I wish they showed you the questions you got wrong at the end, I wanted to know which questions I got wrong. Overall I'm glad I did the exam, I had a year and a half of
Java experience before I started studying, but studying taught me so much about Java and it made me a better programmer.
Donny Nadolny, SCJP 1.4