Hello everyone
After 2.5 months of preparation, I am now OCPJP.
My preparation:
I read K&B
SCJP 6 Study guide twice with a highlighter in my hand, kept reviewing that highlighted notes, also made my own notes of traps and gotchas.
I didn't do much coding, but gave a lot of mock exams.
Here are my results of mocks I gave in chronological order:
K&B Practice book Assessment 1 - 71%K&B Practice book Assessment 2 - 28% Whizlabs Diagnostic - 60%Whizlabs Practice 1 - 63%Whizlabs Practice 2 - 83%Whizlabs Practice 3 - 79%Whizlabs Practice 4 - 70%Whizlabs Final - 81%K&B Practice book Assessment 2(Again) - 57% Scjptest 1 - 81%K&B Practice book 1 - 53%Certpal 1 - 74%Certpal 2 - 73%Certpal 3 - 80%K&B Practice book 2 - 75%K&B Practice book 3 - 66%K&B Practice book 4 - 71%MasterExam 1 - 79%Examlab diagnostic - 70%Examlab 1 - 65%Examlab 2 - 60%Examlab 3 - 58%
Thanks to:
Kathy Sierra,
Bert Bates: The books (K&B Study guide and K&B Practice exams) were very well written and interesting.
Devaka Cooray: Examlab.org is great with better interface. It matched closely to the real exam I gave yesterday. Learnt a lot from it.