Failed BCSI [Edit Passed]

gojericho0

Crushed it this time. Its amazing how much your score goes up if you finish all the questions in time

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Paul Boz

Multicast was a topic that I was under-suited to tackle but used the context of the questions to help me. I definitely had to review multicast after I sat the exam. It's by far the weakest point on my ccie written studies also.

Good luck next time. Do you have any practice exams available to you so that you can practice pacing yourself?

dynamik

Sorry to hear about that. It must be difficult trying to gauge how long to spend on each question considering you can't go back and review it like with MS exams.

gojericho0

No access to practice exams besides free ones online. Next time I am not going to re-read\double-check every question. I was just overly cautious since you can't go back. I was real close and know what to expect next time. I have the free retake offered by Cisco and am confident I will pass after the first experience and a little bit more studying on multicast

networker050184

Multicast was a difficult section for me to master also.

Good luck next time, you can do it!

nicklauscombs

Multicast is definitely one of my biggest weak areas right now, so i'll pay special attention to it

aueddonline

Unlucky man,

sounds like you would of had it if you can find some time, checking your work will cost you a lot of time it's like doing the question twice.

CCIEWANNABE

sorry to hear that you failed. it sure is a hard test. i'm studying right now for the bcmsn and there is no comparison in my opinion on the level of difficulty between the two exams and i don't even do hardly any layer 2 stuff at my work besides crypto stuff. i mostly do layer 3 work and i still thought the bsci was a beast. i hope to test for the switching exam by mid august. i think there are a lot more advanced topics on the bsci than the bcmsn. i mean route redistribution alone could be its own exam. theres just not a lot to vlans, trunking, stp, redundancy protocols and wireless. its all pretty basic stuff in my opinion compared to the routing protocols. what do you guys think?

aueddonline

CCNPWANNABE wrote:

sorry to hear that you failed. it sure is a hard test. i'm studying right now for the bcmsn and there is no comparison in my opinion on the level of difficulty between the two exams and i don't even do hardly any layer 2 stuff at my work besides crypto stuff. i mostly do layer 3 work and i still thought the bsci was a beast. i hope to test for the switching exam by mid august. i think there are a lot more advanced topics on the bsci than the bcmsn. i mean route redistribution alone could be its own exam. theres just not a lot to vlans, trunking, stp, redundancy protocols and wireless. its all pretty basic stuff in my opinion compared to the routing protocols. what do you guys think?

I hope your right man I almost had to check into a mental hospital after the BSCI

singh8281

Sorry to hear that but Multicast does feel like a brick wall sometimes. You came so close to passing, I am sure you’ll ace it next week. I myself will be sitting for BSCI within 3 weeks but it appears it’ll take more than one attempt for me to score that.

mikej412

gojericho0 wrote:

Will be rescheduling next week and will pass!!!

Just look at it as a high quality just-like-the-real-thing free practice exam. And you seem to have successfully identified a weak area -- that should make it worth the time and gas

Good Luck on your real attempt!

jamesp1983

multicast tripped me up as well. good luck with your next attempt.

skelt11

Don't feel too bad. I failed mine yesterday too. This test is a beast. I scored a 777 needed a 790. I still don't think I would have been happy passing it with a low score.

Multicast did trip me up quite a bit too. I was actually surprised. I'm reading the MC section of TCP/IP V. II before I test again. I'm still a little heated at my self for failing. I don't think I studied hard enough.

Good luck next time! I'm sure you'll be more than ready for it.

cdad2000

I was gonna give up after all the stress I went thru with the BSCI, but I'm glad to hear I'm not alone. Better luck next time to everyone.

aragoen_celtdra

You did it, man! Go Jericho, go!

Congrats.

Oh, and next time, maybe it's better to leave the original post and then update it at the bottom. Cause now, Paul Boz's, and everyone else's, comments following yours don't make sense anymore.

shednik

gojericho0 wrote:

Crushed it this time. Its amazing how much your score goes up if you finish all the questions in time

Nice job glad to hear you got it this time!

dynamik

You guys need to just make a new post instead of editing your original one. About 1/2 way through the thread, the tone of the posts abruptly changes from sympathy/best wishes to congratulations

Congratulations!

astorrs

dynamik wrote:

You guys need to just make a new post instead of editing your original one. About 1/2 way through the thread, the tone of the posts abruptly changes from sympathy/best wishes to congratulations

Congratulations!

I agree with both! Congrats

mikej412

Wait? What? Huh?

Oh! I see!

Congratulations!

kpjungle

Great job. Congratulations!