Tonight I did the same practice exam a second time after studying my mistakes from my last attempt. This time I got 81% but I am still quite dissapointed. I wrote down all of my mistakes and noticed that 7 of them were "stupid mistakes" from not paying full attention to detail. If I was paying more attention I could have gotten 91%! That's a huge improvement over my original attempt that scored 74%.
I'll study my notes tomorrow and the day after I'll try out the second practice exam. I suspect it will be harder than the first. I'll study my mistakes from it, do it again, then study my mistakes before the end of the week. I'll move onto the third practice exam doing the same for the week, then I'll be ready for the real test. This is exciting! It just sucks doing a 2.5 hour exam twice a week for 3 weeks, then having to do it again for the real test. Now I'm back to having a goal of 90% or better.
Working from his home office in Toronto,
Ryan de Laplante can be found developing software in
Java by day, and obsessing with technology by night.
Ryan has been designing and writing software for
IJW since 1998 and is very passionate about his work.
