Congratulations Magnus, I enjoyed reading your story and it's great to hear your efforts paid off. Time to get to know your friends and family again!
Cheers, Adam 2011/10/15 Magnus Påhlsson <[email protected]> > I haven't been that active on this list so I wasn't planning on posting > anything when (there are no if's, only when's) I passed my CCIE. Considering > the circumstances (reread) I decided to post anyway. More (but not alot) > info about my two attempts can be found over at > http://ccie-quest.driftverket.se > > After my second attempt I went into a post-exam depression. I just couldn't > for the life of me understand what went wrong. I went through everything in > my head and apart from that one question that I probably failed but COULD > have gotten correct I couldn't see what went wrong. > > I started to consider a reread. I was a bit scared considering the very low > chance of actually getting the results changed. I googled after the > experience of others and yes, I did find a few who actually passed. I also > found a lot of posts that claims that 0.3% of all rereads ends with a > changed grade. I couldn't make up my mind. > > I went back to analyzing what I might have done wrong. That was when it hit > me. During one of the bootcamps one of the other students lost > something like 40 points without understanding why. After some digging and > troubleshooting the instructor figured that maybe it was because the student > had forgotten to disable debug. They reloaded the configs, made sure debug > was disabled and then regraded and WHOOP, there were the points! I searched > my memory and there it was. I had forgotten to disable debug on at least 2-3 > devices who were involved in two different tickets. Could those be the two > tickets I missed? Could it be that debug output messed with the automatic > grading scripts? If that broke the training lab in one of the Cisco 360 > bootcamps, perhaps the same could happen in the lab itself? > > But still the horrible stats held me back. 0.3%! But then, on the 10th day > after my second attempt I thought to myself, "to hell with it, it's only 300 > dollars and I've (read: work) spent a LOT more than that. I'll give it a > try". I applied for a re-read on September 29th. > > Since then I've been logging into the portal and checked at least 5 times > every day. Nothing happened until 2 days ago. 2 days ago the "FAIL" mark and > the score report link disappeared. They weren't replaced by anything, just > blank fields. I started to freak out and tried to find something online that > could tell me what that might mean. The only thing I found was a forum > thread where someone had seen the exact same thing. After a while he had > gotten his exam changed to a PASS. Someone else posted in that same thread > and said that he hadn't seen anything like that but he also said that he > didn't get his score changed. > > So now I'm starting to feel really hopeful (ask my nerdy-cisco-coworkers ;) > ). I only found one single site that described the exact same thing but it > sure was enough to get me going. I was hoping that the site would be updated > the next day but NOTHING happened! So now the "fear" creeps back in. I'm > beginning to think that it doesn't mean anything. It will end with a > confirmation of the fail. It's been a month (kinda) since the attempt and I > haven't studied anything. I'm preparing for the inevitable decision: I'm > giving up. I can't do it again. At least not now. Maybe if I wait six > months... > > But then I wake up today to find this in my inbox: > > ---- > Dear Magnus Pahlsson , > > Regarding the re-read request of your CCIE Lab exam was taken September 19 > 2011 > > We are glad to inform you that your re-read request has been completed and > uploaded to your CCIE CCO Account. > > The CCIE lab exam re-read result status has been changed from FAIL TO PASS. > We are processing your re-read exam fee waiver. > > Congratulations!!!! > > Regards > > Mahesh.K > > CCIE Program > ----- > > They don't say anything about my new result. I haven't even gotten a new > percentage so I don't know how much the manual grading changed my score. But > to be honest I don't care. > > I'm a single parent with 2 kids. I work full time. I've been studying > nights. I've had pretty close to no social life for the last two years. > > Today I am CCIE #30914 and damn, it feels good. > > _______________________________________________ > For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please > visit www.ipexpert.com > > Are you a CCNP or CCIE and looking for a job? Check out > www.PlatinumPlacement.com > _______________________________________________ For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please visit www.ipexpert.com Are you a CCNP or CCIE and looking for a job? Check out www.PlatinumPlacement.com
