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Jesse Silverman wrote:You seem to have a decent sense of which ones you probably got wrong, and that "understood everything, but only memorized some of it" was mostly to blame.
I have heard that the list of topics they give you with your grade seems so all over the place and unfocused that it is next to useless -- is that the case for you?
Interestingly, it wasn't just the time? i.e. Even if you had 3 minutes per question you feel you might have failed?
For me, getting FAST enough is probably the hardest part. It is so easy to accidentally let 4 or 5 minutes go by on a question you couldn't even afford 2 on...then you are under ridiculous time pressure the rest of the exam...
EDIT -- did you only take the chapter review tests in the book, or did you buy and try any of their or Enthuware or other mock tests?? It seems like you should have realized you were in trouble before seating for the exam?
Campbell Ritchie wrote:Sorry about your misfortune, but thank you for giving us information. Information about unsuccessful exams is particularly luableva because so few people supply it.
How long was your preparation period? What sort of marks weere you getting in the mock tests? Did you sit the 1Z0‑819 exam?
RTFJD (the JavaDocs are your friends!) If you haven't read them in a long time, then RRTFJD (they might have changed!)
RTFJD (the JavaDocs are your friends!) If you haven't read them in a long time, then RRTFJD (they might have changed!)
I moved the thread over to that forum.
Jesse Silverman wrote:One more thing.
When posting OCJP-related stuff use the forum over here:
https://coderanch.com/f/24/java-programmer-OCPJP
Why? Many of the same people respond in both forums?
There are all sorts of things you might see on the exam where people will just show you a better way to do what you are asking about when in (this) the "Java In General" forum.
Questions in that other forum will be answered with the knowledge that you are explicitly preparing for the cert exam, so that you won't hear "Don't do that -- do this instead" or "Why do you even care about that?"
It will be clear that you are interested in that thing for the exam, which precludes the first comment and answers the second question.
Occasionally, what you are asking will be known by those familiar with the exam to be out-of-scope for it, in which case you might be happy to hear that (of course many of those things are useful to know "for real life").
What's the pass mark? If it is 66% make sure you are getting over 70% in the mocks before sitting the real thing.John O Sullivan wrote:. . . On the mock exams, I got between 39-56% . . .
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