Lionel,
Very very sorry for the delayed reply. This is Maha's 2nd post after a week. Now I understand where you come from. If I would have done like you (got up in 45 min) I am sure I would have failed, especially if I think other things behind my mind, what if something happens before the exam, what others will think of if I don't do well, why should I do this, like that. 45 min/with thinking the exam is tough and got 73% means I am sure you are capable of doing what you think you can do. Really. One more thing I got from Maha's life experiance as a professional and as a family women is , find out who you are, not to compare with others, we can compare sometimes but not to discourage ourself, I am not the only one I think what am I now, may be I didn't know of others in the whole world who are sailing in th same boat like that.. As a professional, we shd not put off by our emotional.Our intelligence doesn't play its role when emotion takes control over. Exactly pin-point what is your weekness. Think positively. The key here is when we know things, if something else stops us from showing it, we are the only one who exactly can pin-point the cause and beat to the ground. So these are the things we have to bear with if you want to achieve the 100%. You have to do the special prep which is needed for the exam point of view. I know apart from all that only experience specks in real life and the cert definitly improves out knowledge. Some people know the funda, but careless in applying that like myself I lost one qstn in operators and assignments. One more thing I think of useful here is , utilize the full 2 hrs. If you think logically, We are doing so much.... hard work for
this 2 hrs only. Then its not wise , not to utilize them, especially if you aim for some good %. right? Who is going to bother if you used 2 hrs or 45 min. Only the score matters.So this is the key. Do the hard part. Try to practice to concentrate. Even if you loose concentration, try to get back to normal within 1 or 2 min. If you find a hard qstn, try to spend lesser time on that, because in the meanwhile if you think you are wasting time, some thing like that, definitly it is going to affect your concentration on the next qstn even if it is easy. So try to do more rounds of revising. Like you have to draw a line bet how you divide the whole 2 hrs, 1st round/2nd round/3rd round. I changed 2 qstns in the 2nd round of revising. Reason... marked the wrong answer, while thinking the other one is correct. If I would not have revised the 2nd time I would have lost 2 qstns while will reduce 4% on the total of what we get, easily. Also note that this exam is for 59 qstns, not 100 qstns. So we get points easily as well as loose also. If you gain a qstn you get appro. 2%, at the same time if you loose 1 we loose 2%. So bear this also in mind. One more thing to speed up ansering is use [i]process of elimination[i]. If an answer is wrong for a valid reason, just eliminate that and go for next ans, like that. I suggest if money is not prob. and you want really high score, if score is important for your profession, if you want to do it yourself, go for it 2nd time. Now do it wisely knowing what you did wrong in the first time. Definitly now you will have better experiance since you have already had the real exam experience once. you WILL GET THE BEST. I am glad you talked to us frankly.All these are from Maha's opinion. IF any other thing you want to ask ,you are welcome. I am always ready to hear and try to help.
regds
maha anna
[This message has been edited by maha anna (edited May 25, 2000).]
