Cleared SCJP 1.5 with 93%

[Vish Shukla]

Hi all,

Cleared SCJP 1.5 exams with 93% yesterday. Purely by thorough reading of Kathy Sierra & Bert Bates book only.
No illegal material..

Thanks to Kathy and Bert.

[Welly Tambunan]

congratulation
please share your study strategy ..

i will take the exam by the end of april ...

[Vish Shukla]

Hi Welly,

Thanks.

I was having knowledge of Java before Starting K&B. I had read Java Complete Reference well. And I had gone through K&B book twice for preparation, and that throroughly. and in second time I just zipped the book in just aroung 15 pages of handwritten notes. And before appearing in exam, just revised it.

Exam is not too hard if you imbibe each and every concept of book. And make sure that you are going for the exam with Fresh mind. It is the most important thing I have realized.

[Welly Tambunan]

i'll try your way to make a notes.
how about your study schedule? could you tell me please ?

[Vish Shukla]

Most of the reading I have done was early in the morning because of job. But I dont think it should matter a lot. If you can do fulltime preparation, 2 months is more than enough.

[Abhay Agarwal]

Congrats buddy !!!

[NagarajGoud uppala]

Congratulations vish shukla

how many years of experience you have?

[NagarajGoud uppala]

now i am also joined as fresher so i would like to start preparation.how many months you prepared?
and tell me the tips too how to prepare?

[Deepak Bala]

Congrats !

[Vijitha Kumara]

Congrats Vish !

[Mahalakshmi Chandru]

Congrats Vish ....im going through K&B book for the first time. I will go thorough the book once more before taking the exams .Also , lot of mock exams will help a lot. Though i had little java knowledge in the past, i didnt get coding exposure a lot.

i need to know if we have any website where we can test our knowledge chapterwise...that will make us understand concepts thoroughly. Also let us know the source site for taking mock exams. njoy your score

[Rizvan Asgarov]

Hi friends,

Firstly, I want to congratulate you for your nice score.

Secondly, preparation method and psychology are different for others..
For instance: To solve the tests of the Devaka and pass the 60% that is faith in man. So i want to say, if we eat the "melon of the scientists" much, it will be so excellently.
...to repeat that is is the mother of the knowledge..

Congratulations once again..

[Ankit Garg]

Congrats

Nice Score

[Vish Shukla]

Thanks all..

I completely agree with Rizvan. Methodology of reading that works for one person may not really work for someone else..

@nagaraju,

I think these all are discussed in the same thread with Welly.

And one more thing I would like to add is if you see introductory part of K&B, then you will find that you can't directly dig into K&B and start learning java. You need to have beginner level knowledge. And what I feel is practicability of the concepts in the K&B will make you a lot safer than doing mock exams. Some mocks is necessary but after certain level, you will do some amount of unforced errors, that wouldn't be case if you are trying each thing practically, according to me. Case may be vice-versa for someone else.

[arulk pillai]

Congrats and keep applying what you had learnt.

[Juee Doo]

Congrats

[Krishna Srinivasan]

congrats!!