Passed SCJP 5 with 88%

[Riya Pant]

Hi All,
I am happy to share that i cleared SCJP 5 exam today. I got 88%. I know its not very good score but its my first professional certification and i am glad to have it cleared.

[Jesper de Jong]

I think 88% is not bad!
Congratulations!

[Joe San]

Congrats!

[Brian Deer]

Congratulations!!!

What do you think was the best resource or study strategy that helped you pass the test?

brian

[Keith Lynn]

Congratulations Riya!

[Riya Pant]

Thanks everyone
For the preparation, I read KnB book and did the self test given in the book twice.Topics on exam are 100% covered in the book. Some questions were confusing. I have solved some mock questions on javabeat to revise the concepts.
Test was not very tough not very easy.There were around 8-9 questions on thread.Prepare Exception handling and method overriding properly.
Before taking the exam, i was scared of generics. But in exam, there are only 2 questions on this topic and they were simple.

While reading, make sure you keep in mind which exception will be thrown, not only some exception will be thrown. As one question was

 static int[] a;
static{
a[0] = 2;  
}   

And question was, Which exception wil be thrown.

[Mohit Chadha]

Congratulations Riya!

[Chandra Bhatt]

Congrats Riya!

88% is NOT called a bad score!

Thanks,

[Joshua Ruby]

Congratulations!

[Vassili Vladimir]

Congrats

[Bert Bates]

Wow Riya, you've been hanging around Javaranch too long...

88% is a FANTASTIC score!

Bert