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repeat mock exams or not??

 
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I am almost ready to take the scjp test...i have done most of the mock exams..Now when i'm doing them again i'm getting very good score in them...I wonder if people who r going to take the exam do the same thing or not? or do they do a fresh new mock exam to assess themselves before taking a real exam??
 
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My exams work best when they are used as a workbook. My exams tend to be more difficult than the real exam, so your score on the real exam will most likely be higher than your score on my exam.

The Marcus Green exams are more like the real exam. Most people like to save those for last.
 
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Hi Dan,
I have done some of your exams. But Iam confused, since i'm going to write scjp 1.2 not 1.4. And everyone in this forum talking about the scjp 1.4. How far is ur exams useful for 1.2??
 
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Hi all !!!
Can somebody tell me please ,if I practice Dan�s single topics exams and Marcus Green mock exams many time , will I take the risk to memorize the exercises rather than learn them ?
regards , Victor
 
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Hi all,
I raised a question ....and so is victor now...but i can't get an answer...Also my other question about the Dan's mock exams..how far r they useful for 1.2 not 1.4??
 
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I try to include explanations for the answers to my questions so my hope is that users will learn the concepts rather than the questions.
 
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Greetings from Hogwarts,

Bros, my arguable rule of thumb: Don't take the same exam more than twice, or u will risk memorizing the answers and identifying them even before you are halfway thru reading the q. This is very dangerous since if u recognize the same line of questioning in the real exam and without really reading carefully, start taking an approach for the answer based on "past memories", you will land yourself into trouble...
 
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Originally posted by Deepa RaoK:
Hi Dan,
I have done some of your exams. But Iam confused, since i'm going to write scjp 1.2 not 1.4. And everyone in this forum talking about the scjp 1.4. How far is ur exams useful for 1.2??



The difference between 1.2 and 1.4 is as follows.

The 1.4 exam removes the AWT and IO topics but adds assertions and a couple new classes in the collections framework--LinkedHashMap and LinkedHashSet. The wrapper classes and the Object.hashCode and Object.equals methods are further emphasized in 1.4.

Everything that you need to know about assertions is available in the document Programming with Assertions.

For more information on the 1.4 exam, please see the objectives.

My exams do not cover AWT and IO, but they do a good job of covering the topics that are common between the 1.2 and 1.4 versions.

My exams do cover assertions and the new classes of the collections framework. Since my exams are organized by topic, you can skip the topics that are not applicable to the 1.2 version of the exam.
 
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Originally posted by victor santos:
Hi all !!!
Can somebody tell me please ,if I practice Dan�s single topics exams and Marcus Green mock exams many time , will I take the risk to memorize the exercises rather than learn them ?
regards , Victor



My exam contains nearly 600 questions. Even I have not memorized them all.
 
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thanks for all your suggestions and views.
 
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