scjp 5 or scjp 6

[vineet walia]

somebody told me that scjp 6 is easier then scjp 5 exam
is it so ??
& for exam point which topic required special attention ?

[prerna aggarwal]

hii vineet.....
somebody told me that SCJP 6 has a higher difficulty level than SCJP 1.5....

[vineet walia]

Anybody suggest better option between scjp5 or 6?

[Jason Irwin]

The marking system is slightly different between the two exams (6 has more questions, but a higher pass rate or something like that; the details are in the FAQ, but that seems to be down just now). You can get some details from Sun.

Regardless of which one is "harder", I have chosen to do SCJP6. Java 1.6 is the current version, so the qualification will remain valid for longer. I don't see much point in passing an exam on a version that is deprecated.

When do you want to sit the exam? You may wish to consider the new SJP PLus exam (it's only in beta at the moment).

[vineet walia]

end of this month...

no its not like that number of question are same in both scjp 5 & 6
only difference is time<210 minutes for 6 and 175 minutes for 5> & of course some more topic are added in 6 and some are removed..

can you send me link of this scjp + from sun website??

[Jason Irwin]

The links are in my post already....