Passed ROUTE this afternoon, and boy do you really have to know your stuff, I honestly didn't think I was gonna pass at the end, I had 15mins to spare, which I suppose it ok. Up popped the score - I stared in disbelief at a score of 965, has to be a mistake but I'll take it

. I'm not confident about SWITCH at all, if this was meant to be the easier of the two.
The labs weren't too difficult in truth, but the time pressure magnifies their difficulty immensely. I used the FLG, OCG for study and Cisco Route lab manual, GNS3 Vault and GNS3 for labs.
I'll take a week off and start the road to Switch.
Finally I'd like to thank you all here, even though I don't post much I do lurk and I've learned a lot from other peoples intelligent questions, and their even more intelligent replies..
Nate