cleared SCJP6 with 91%

[Rajeev Rnair]

Dear friends,

I cleared SCP6 today with 91%. Most of the questions were tough and some were exceptionally tough. Almost all questions were tricky, so you have to read it again and again till you spot the trick.
Thanks to K& B book, Enthuware JQPlus, Devaka's exam lab and all ranchers here. I did all master exams, Exam lab, and all JQPlus mock exams. Some questions were in the same level of toughness as Examlab. Most of the questions were tougher than Master exam and more or less same toughness as Enthuware. Almost all questions (except one with coupling/cohesion ) were code based. Make sure you practice lot of code. I scored an average of 60 in Examlab, 75 (avg) for Master exams and 80(avg) for JQPlus.

I am sharing my experience with today's test!
1. I brought a bottle of mineral water with me but the guy at prometric told me that drinking water is not allowed while doing test . Either you can have it before test or you could have the rest after the test!
2. I was expecting plain paper and pencils, but I was provided with an erasable board and a marker. The marker would not even work some times. It was horrible
3. Somehow I managed to answer all Thread questions correctly. I got 7-8 questions on thread, synchronization, dead lock etc.
4. Inner classes with most weirdest combination appears every where. You need to know the in and out of inner classes.
5. One drag and drop was extremely tough with Files, directory etc.
6. None of the questions were same or nearly same from Master exam or any mock exams.
7. Lot of questions were from shadowing instance, final, static variables in sub class, sub interfaces, inner class extending outer class etc.
8. Nothing from Serialization
9. It took me 2:45 mins to answer the complete questions and got only few minutes to review the marked ones!
10. Don't skip the tough questions thinking you can revisit them later because some of the questions appear easy, but it may not be that easy once you start thinking deeply!

I have already started preparing for SCWCD. Planning to appear exam within couple of months!

anyways I am glad that this is finally over Time for a new signature!
Wish you all the best

-Rajeev

[Larry Chung]

Congratulations on a terrific score. Those are excellent 10 points you provided.

By mid-week you should receive 2 e-mails from Sun. One e-mail will give you your Sun Certification ID and have information on how to register for the Certification Database. If you do not get that e-mail, send a message to [e-mail] to ask about it.

Two to three weeks (or longer if you are not in the U.S.) after you register into the Certificate Database, you will receive in the postal mail a welcome kit containing your SCJP certificate and a small plastic wallet-size ID card that indicates your SCJP status. Your score is not printed on them. If you do not get that package then send a message to [e-mail] to ask about it.

[Seetharaman Venkatasamy]

Congratulations!

[Devaka Cooray]

Congratulations Rajeev
Glad to know that ExamLab helped.

[Prithvi Sehgal]

Congratulations Rajeev. So my gut feeling was correct.

Enjoy yourself,

[Ausan Abdulhabib]

congratulation

[Sergio Rodrigo]

Congrats, great score!

I'm a little worried because I'm scoring only 50% in Examlab I hope I'll be more confident when I take my exam..

Best regards.

[Prithvi Sehgal]

Even i am worried, i am scoring really low in Generics part. Don't know what will be the output of mocks

[Joe San]

Congrats!

[Rafal Wasielewski]

Congrats

[Rajeev Rnair]

Prithvi Sehgal wrote:Congratulations Rajeev. So my gut feeling was correct.

Enjoy yourself,

Thanks man! Somehow I feel disappointed with the score
Wish you all the best in advance, I am sure you will score close to the perfect score

cheers!!

[Rajeev Rnair]

Thank you all guys! It was great support from the ranchers here!

[Rajeev Rnair]

Sergio Rodrigo wrote:Congrats, great score!

I'm a little worried because I'm scoring only 50% in Examlab I hope I'll be more confident when I take my exam..

Best regards.

Dont worry! It is a good score in Exam Lab
I only got 52% in my last Exam lab exam even though I scored 68 in the second and 60+ (can't recollect) in the first
Score is NOT what is important, you need to figure out why you missed the questions!
Always use exam lab as a learning tool. I am sure you will suceed!

[Rajeev Rnair]

Larry Chung wrote:Congratulations on a terrific score. Those are excellent 10 points you provided.

By mid-week you should receive 2 e-mails from Sun. One e-mail will give you your Sun Certification ID and have information on how to register for the Certification Database. If you do not get that e-mail, send a message to [e-mail] to ask about it.

Two to three weeks (or longer if you are not in the U.S.) after you register into the Certificate Database, you will receive in the postal mail a welcome kit containing your SCJP certificate and a small plastic wallet-size ID card that indicates your SCJP status. Your score is not printed on them. If you do not get that package then send a message to [e-mail] to ask about it.

Thanks Larry waiting for the emails!!

[Roberto Perillo]

Congrats, champion!

[Rahul Manikuntla]

Congrats and all the best to you

[Rajeev Rnair]

Thank you Robert and Rahul

[Rajeev Rnair]

Larry Chung wrote:Congratulations on a terrific score. Those are excellent 10 points you provided.

By mid-week you should receive 2 e-mails from Sun. One e-mail will give you your Sun Certification ID and have information on how to register for the Certification Database. If you do not get that e-mail, send a message to [e-mail] to ask about it.

Two to three weeks (or longer if you are not in the U.S.) after you register into the Certificate Database, you will receive in the postal mail a welcome kit containing your SCJP certificate and a small plastic wallet-size ID card that indicates your SCJP status. Your score is not printed on them. If you do not get that package then send a message to [e-mail] to ask about it.

Hi Larry, I got the 2 emails from Sun couple of hours back with a Sun ID and after verifiying the address and personal stuff I was able to login to certification database with that login ID.

Thanks again,

[Larry Chung]

Rajeev Rnair wrote:
Hi Larry, I got the 2 emails from Sun couple of hours back with a Sun ID and after verifiying the address and personal stuff I was able to login to certification database with that login ID.

Rajeev, Thank you for telling me the good news. You will see that in the Certification Database you can now send your SCJP credentials to anybody you want, before you receive the printed certificate from Sun. Also, in the Certification Database, I suggest you try the link for downloading the Sun SCJP logo.
Congratulations again.

[Akil Kumar]

Rajeev,

I am planning to appear for SCJP 6.0 soon but haven't taken the date yet. I read the K&B study guide many times. Please tell me how to improve confidence in programming. What sort of exercise should I work on?

Thanks

[Rajeev Rnair]

Akila Agandeswaran wrote:Rajeev,

I am planning to appear for SCJP 6.0 soon but haven't taken the date yet. I read the K&B study guide many times. Please tell me how to improve confidence in programming. What sort of exercise should I work on?

Thanks

Akila, welcome to the ranch
Have you tried the Master exams which comes along with the K&B book? If so, how much are you scoring?
After trying the Master exams, try Devaka's Exam lab. It do have 5 mock exams. The questions are tough though, but use it as a learning tool. The link is in my signature.
If you need to learn more, please try Enthuware JQPlus or Whizlabs mock exams. I tried Enthuware and it is really great with 13 mock exams.

Wish you all the best

[Akil Kumar]

How did you practice the code and from where did you got the examples?

[Rajeev Rnair]

Akila Agandeswaran wrote:How did you practice the code and from where did you got the examples?

I practiced most of code from K&B book and Master exams (from K&B cd) whenever I was in doubt. Apart from that spent some time on Exam Lab and Enthuware mock exams.

[Sergio Rodrigo]

Rajeev Rnair wrote:

Sergio Rodrigo wrote:Congrats, great score!

I'm a little worried because I'm scoring only 50% in Examlab I hope I'll be more confident when I take my exam..

Best regards.

Dont worry! It is a good score in Exam Lab
I only got 52% in my last Exam lab exam even though I scored 68 in the second and 60+ (can't recollect) in the first
Score is NOT what is important, you need to figure out why you missed the questions!
Always use exam lab as a learning tool. I am sure you will suceed!

Thanks, Rajeev. I always write a note when I miss a question. I suppose (and hope..) I'll score higher in the real exam. I'm stil learning ^^

[Abhay Agarwal]

Congrats for passing the exam

[Rufat Piriyev]

Rajeev Rnair wrote:Dear friends,

I cleared SCP6 today with 91%. Most of the questions were tough and some were exceptionally tough. Almost all questions were tricky, so you have to read it again and again till you spot the trick.
Thanks to K& B book, Enthuware JQPlus, Devaka's exam lab and all ranchers here. I did all master exams, Exam lab, and all JQPlus mock exams. Some questions were in the same level of toughness as Examlab. Most of the questions were tougher than Master exam and more or less same toughness as Enthuware. Almost all questions (except one with coupling/cohesion ) were code based. Make sure you practice lot of code. I scored an average of 60 in Examlab, 75 (avg) for Master exams and 80(avg) for JQPlus.

I am sharing my experience with today's test!
1. I brought a bottle of mineral water with me but the guy at prometric told me that drinking water is not allowed while doing test . Either you can have it before test or you could have the rest after the test!
2. I was expecting plain paper and pencils, but I was provided with an erasable board and a marker. The marker would not even work some times. It was horrible
3. Somehow I managed to answer all Thread questions correctly. I got 7-8 questions on thread, synchronization, dead lock etc.
4. Inner classes with most weirdest combination appears every where. You need to know the in and out of inner classes.
5. One drag and drop was extremely tough with Files, directory etc.
6. None of the questions were same or nearly same from Master exam or any mock exams.
7. Lot of questions were from shadowing instance, final, static variables in sub class, sub interfaces, inner class extending outer class etc.
8. Nothing from Serialization
9. It took me 2:45 mins to answer the complete questions and got only few minutes to review the marked ones!
10. Don't skip the tough questions thinking you can revisit them later because some of the questions appear easy, but it may not be that easy once you start thinking deeply!

I have already started preparing for SCWCD. Planning to appear exam within couple of months!

anyways I am glad that this is finally over Time for a new signature!
Wish you all the best

-Rajeev

congrats Rajeev!!! I am glad for you but your words about level of questions have frightened me . Really all so terribly?

[Rajeev Rnair]

Rufat Piriyev wrote:
congrats Rajeev!!! I am glad for you but your words about level of questions have frightened me . Really all so terribly?

Thanks Rufat! I think there are different versions of the exam, some easy, some tough, some medium! We don't know for sure what is in the store! Don't worry too much about that, be well prepared, do Exam Lab and then go ahead and do it!

Wish you all the best !

[Rajeev Rnair]

Abhay Agarwal wrote:Congrats for passing the exam

thanks Abhay!

[Paul Anilprem]

Congratulations Rajeev!!!
Glad to know our tool helped.

[hasi weragala]

Congratulations ,well done

[Vinod Tiwari]

Congrats

[bhanu chowdary]

Conrats and all the best for your SCWCD

[Sandhya Parmar]

Congratulations Rajeev and thanks for the post. I am having exam too in next few days. I have prepared from K&B Book and finished K&B mock tests(60%-65%). I am planning to try ExamLab and free Enthuware Tests. Could you please suggest me any other test or techniques.

[Rajeev Rnair]

Thank you Paul, Hasi, Vinod, Bhanu and Sandhya !

[Rajeev Rnair]

Sandhya Parmar wrote:Congratulations Rajeev and thanks for the post. I am having exam too in next few days. I have prepared from K&B Book and finished K&B mock tests(60%-65%). I am planning to try ExamLab and free Enthuware Tests. Could you please suggest me any other test or techniques.

Thanks Sandhya. I think 65% is a good score in Master exams. Try the "Exam Lab" and it do have 5 exams. Please use it as a learning tool. Review the questions, answers and explanations given and you are good to go

Wish you all the best in advance!!

[Sandhya Parmar]

Thanks Rajeev.

[AshutoshP Patil]

hi rajeev
can you please give me the link of master exams?
thanks in advance

[Rajeev Rnair]

AshutoshP Patil wrote:hi rajeev
can you please give me the link of master exams?
thanks in advance

Hello Ashutosh, the master exam comes along with the CD of K&B book.
Good luck!