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Regarding SCJP exam

 
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Hello all,
I am newbie (greenhorn) here, and I have few questions abt. SCJP exam.
1)I believe there are 59 questions in the exam, do they all carry same marks?
2)In the questions where you are supposed to enter (or type in )the answer, what sort of questions do they ask and how exactly are they assessed. As in if I am supposed to enter a code snippet there are n number of ways in which I can do it, are ALL the ways which get desired result valid?
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- Manish
p.s. I did read the FAQs before posting this and couldn't find answers, so pl. excuse me for asking.
 
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Hi, Manish:
1. Yes, all carry same mark.
2. For key-in question, the answer will always be fixed, for example, what is the result of : System.out.println("Java"); Java an example, real exam might not be so easy. So don't worry about this kind of question.
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Hi Manish,
Yes, there are 59 questions on the exam, and they all carry the same weight. You need to get 36 correct to pass with a 61% (I have proven this by getting 35 questions correct on my first attempt!)
The fill in questions are pretty straightforward, and will probably not require more than a few words. It will be something like you will see on mock exams, like "declare a class called Aclass that cannot be subclassed and returns nothing" or it might be even a one-word answer like "what is the value of the String blah at line 3"...I have not heard that it will ever be more than one line you need to type in. Just make sure of your spelling and casing and you're cool.
I believe that they allow for all correct answers if there is any debate, like if they are asking for a String value you can use double quotes around it or not, and if you are asked to make a declaration that can go in any order (public static final vs. public final static), however you write it will be fine.
Hope that's helpful.
--liz
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Thanks all.
Nice to be in a place where everybody is so friendly & helping.
Also, got some clarification from Gagan's thread in SCJP results abt. type in questions.
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- Manish
 
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