Hi, everyone. I took the
scjp today and got 54 out of 59 correct. If you are curious, in the last couple of days before the exam, I took each of the Marcus exams, the exam at the end of the Brogden Cram book, 1 JPlus exam, and the JTip exam. On the Marcus exams, I got 88%, 87%, and 92% respectively. I got 83% on the Brogden Cram exam, and 92% on the JPlus exam( I think the first standard one). On the JTip exam(the first JTip exam), I got 62%.
BTW, I think that the JTip exam was largely a waste of time--I honestly wish that I hadn't bothered with it and just concentrated on another JPlus exam. I found a couple of errors in the exam, and the questions were just silly--they kept repeatedly asking the same kinds of questions in a very convoluted fashion--which the real exam is nothing like.
Like a lot of people, I agree that the real exam is similar to the Marcus exams. The format and type of questions were eerily similar.
If I had to do everything over again, and had one week to study for the exam, these are the mock exams I would concentrate on: the three Marcus exams, the Majji exam, the Applied Reasoning exam (all of which can be found in the MahaAnna site), and JPlus exams. I think that JPlus exams are the most important. JPlus really drills you in the fundamentals, and the fundamentals are the most important thing in the exm.
Most of the questions in the exam involved code, but most of the code were ten or less lines. I had 8-10 questions where the code was between ten to twenty lines, and only two questions where the code was between twenty to thirty lines.
The wording of the questions was always clear, and unlike most mock exam questions, there were only one or two "tricks" involved with each question. A couple of questions were real easy--if you do well on the Marcus exams and have JPlus too, then I think you'll find the questions really easy as well.
My weakest area is IO and my first 5 questions involved IO. However, they were straightforward. The only thing you needed to know were the constructors for the streams / readers. I got 100% on IO. There were 5 - 7 questions on
thread, which I did only 85% on. Only one of the thread questions involved a long piece of code.
The exam seemed to really focus on overriding / overloading questions. I think there were ten questions on overriding. However, if you are sound on the fundamentals, the questions should be straightforward. Fortunately, I got 100% on this area.
Surprisingly, I had three questions on the switch operation--but they were similar to ones I found in the Marcus and JPlus exams, so I think I did well on those.
Anyway, my score isn't that great, but I couldn't have gotten it without the services of JavaRanch, MahaAnna, Marcus Green, and JPlus. I would like to sincerely thank them for their invaluable help.
[This message has been edited by js yang (edited May 16, 2001).]
[This message has been edited by js yang (edited May 16, 2001).]