My brain is currently processing all dates in this way
Here's a short rundown of my road to the test:
I started with Sierra and Bates' OCA guide and then moved onto Enthuware. The first couple of Enthuware attempts went poorly so I decided to try a new book. The next book I read was the OCA guide by Jeanne Boyarsky and Scott Selikoff. Reading a second book (and writing a lot more code) really helped to steady the ship for me. I had improved with the end-of-chapter questions and the digital material from both books so I moved back to Enthuware. Here are all my Enthuware scores and exam result:
Foundation Test :64%
Test 1: 56%
Test 2: 79%
Test 3: 67%
Test 4: 83%
Test 5: 67%
Test 6: 84%
Test 7: 79%
Last Day Test : 87%
Actual exam score: 92%
I found the exam to be quite tough. I think I had read so many times online that "The real exam is much easier than Enthuware" that I bought into it a little too much. Enthuware is tougher but not by a huge margin in my opinion. The testing software was very similar to Enthuware and quite nice to use, one grievance I have is that the screen was a little too small in my local test center. I had to scroll up and down at times but that's a small complaint really.
Thanks to the other members who have answered my questions in the last couple of weeks and hopefully this post is useful to someone.
On to OCP!