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Folks,

I wonder what is the procedure that everyone adopts to take the different Mock Exams?
Meaning...prepare completely and take the mocks..or taking mocks side by side.
 
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Mock exams are generally considered to be very helpful. Dan Chisholms questions are often considered to be more of a heavy work out rather than a simulation of how the actual exam comes accross. So if you get good marks on those questions you can be confident of actually knowing the subject. You can buy a printed version of Dans questions for added convenience. My own questions are aimed more at simulating the real exam, and thus may be very slightly easier but a good indication of your likely score on the real thing.

At the moment I believe there are no bad commercial products for practicing for the exam. Thus the mock exams you get with books such as Kathy & Bert or the Mughal and Sierra books will be of great help, and the commercial products such as the Whizlabs tool and JQPlus are also very good.
 
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I believe this depends on each individual, there are people who read the JLS before they start coding. Others start coding straight away without looking to the language syntax until the need is there. Which one is better, it depends on how you feel best.

With regards to the exam I believe studying one objective at a time, and then taking mock exams in a simulated environment seems to be the most preferred way.

Once you get through all the objectives you can go for mock exams that contains a mixture of objectives.
Another possibility is taking a mock exam (trial exam), before you start studying, that covers all the objectives. The outcome of this mock exam will give a clear indication of your weaknesses and your strengths for each objective.

On our website we have created a personalized certification centre that you can use to test first your strengths or test each objective individually.

As Marcus already indicated his questions seems to be close to the exam, from the feedback we receive we must believe that we fall in the same category.

The choice is yours ...
 
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Thanks much for the reply.

Could please tell me the link for the ' Personalised Certification centre' in our site.?


Thanks.
 
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