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difficulty of SCJP 6.0 exam vs. difficulty of K&B Master Exam

 
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I am curious about the opinion of people of the difficulty of the SCJP 6.0 exam in comparison to the K&B Master Exam. I score 75% or better on the K&B Master Exam but I have not yet signed up to take the SCJP exam because I feel that I have a lot of room for improvement on certain topics.
 
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I'd also want to know opinion of others regarding this. I still have not taken the master exam in K&B as I am yet going through the book and still plan to take the exam in mid May .

I took the CertPal exam (http://www.certpal.com/ExamWeb/content/logon.do) but did not do so well on it. I missed the tricky stuff like static methods accessing non static fields and TreeMap not giving error when object inserted in it does not overwrite equals or hashcode because only ONE object was insted into the TreeMap.

How hard is the actual SCJP compared to K&B master exam and also CertPal exam?
 
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Well Bhaarat,

People say, Master-exam is more difficult then the real one. I plan to start mock exams from 25th onwards
as i fell very ill and couldn't keep up with the preparation. I will suggest first go through different examination
kits and then save Master-Exam for last and see how it scores. I have heard from my friends, Master exam is
tougher then original exam. Additionally mate, you can't know all tricks in one pass, you got to continue solving
things and with everything you will learn something new. There is no end of learning.

Don't worry and keep the hopes high. I am appearing on 6th May though. Hopefully i will score well.

Best Wishes,
 
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These questions are interesting for me. Especially there are many differences between books too . The enum part is very perfunctory describe in K&B book but in Muttal book it have very detailed description . Also some aspects of API in Muttal Rasmussen book is very detailed but some of that isn't useful for exam . There is on book more by Raposa but I havent it . But I think 75% is very good score for master exam your score will be more than 85%.
 
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