Passed OCJP 1.6 - 98%

I've posted about this in the SCJP forum as well, but I thought I might as well post it here too.

I want to make it known that I am very grateful to this entire forum.

I did not have access to the internet for the past few days either, so I could not verify stuff or ask last minute doubts..

It was a nerve wrangling experience waiting for today, but as one Nitish Bangera said, the exam was much easier than the mock exams I had given earlier.

(In that vein, I recommend Devaka's ExamLab as the perfect simulator to toughen you up, and of course K&B's Masterexams)

I was very lucky in that I did not get a single drag-and-drop question, and all the questions made sense to me. I was given an erasable markerboard/sheet, I had no other choice in that regard.

The worst part, in my opinion, was clicking the Finish button

even on believing that my answers were right!

Thank you everyone!

Congrats.Questions were really tricky or simple ?

@Shalini : Here's what I think...

I believe it depends, to some extent, on the exam center!

Some exam centers recycle their questions more often than others.

I took the exam at NIIT Hauz-Khas, Delhi. My friend took it at Aptech Rajouri Garden.

Her questions were similar to mine but some of them were too much for her. Then again I don't know how much time she devoted to studying.

I was studying everyday - in the morning as a bare minimum.

However I think that if you do the mock exams and code a lot to answer your own questions/doubts, exam question difficulty shouldn't be an issue.

After 1.5 months of study, the questions were really simple for me.

Did you find time was sufficient to answer all questions comfortably ?

Like I said, if you're good enough, there will be enough time left.

I followed K&B's recommendation to solve the exam in passes; first pass, second pass and so on.

What surprised me is the number of questions I solved on the first pass itself.

After checking and rechecking my answers, I had an hour left...I decided to get over with it.

@Pritish Congrats once again on a great result.

@Shalini OCPJP is really not about going through the book but understanding the concepts. You need to perfect all the concepts and then give the mocks. The two mocks i prefer is K&B's mock and Devaka's Examlab. With say a minimum effort of 21 days including solving the mocks, you would be prepared for the OCPJP.