real exam vs mock exams

[vivekkumar sharma]

Hi Ranchers,

I am preparing for SCJP for java1.5.
I am practicing using following mock exams
1. Sierra and Berts
2. Wizlabs
3. sun sample questions

Can some one share thier experiance of test and compare
how much is actual test difficult than these practice test.

TA
Vivek

[Deepak Bala]

The Kathy and Bert mocks are harder than the real exam. The sun example questions are very much like the real exam quesitions. I have not taken the sun example questions myself but i have seen a few of them. Whizlabs is supposed to be tougher than the real exam i think.

[vivekkumar sharma]

Hi John

Thanks for ur views
cheers
Vivek

[Manuel Comnenus]

vivekkumar - Thank you for posting this question.

John - Two questions regarding the exam questions - the puzzles in the K&B book are extremely hard. To what extent are puzzles employed in the real exam and how hard are they? I don't recall puzzles (or at least, challenging ones) in the Sun problems and I went through all 210 problems.

Thanks,
Steve

[Deepak Bala]

The real exam questions are not that hard when compared to the self test or mock exam questions from the book. I dont know where puzzles would come into the equation. Are you referring to the self test questions as puzzles ? Or the quizzes in the master exam software ? I didnt go through the quizzes in the master exam software. The only mock exams that i took were the mocks that came with the book. They were good and they prepared me for the real thing. Good luck with your exam.

[Manuel Comnenus]

Hi John

An example of a puzzle is Chapter 4, #8.

Place the fragments into the code to produce the output 33. Note, you must use each fragment exactly once.

CODE:
class Incr {
Integer x = 7;
int y = 2;

x ___ ___;
___ ___ ___;
___ ___ ___;
___ ___ ___;

System.out.println(x);

FRAGMENTS:
y y y y
y x x
-= *= *= *=

[Sasikanth Malladi]

I don't think you need to worry about the "puzzles" such as these in the actual exam.
I think Bert and Kathy gave themselves a high five when they came up with this!
Sashi

[Manuel Comnenus]

Hi Sasikanth,

Thank you!

Steve