Mohammad Bappy Chowdhary wrote:I have booked the exam 3 months ago for 15th of June 2015, I have studied everyday for 3 hrs. Now I am thinking of changing the exam date. any suggestion will be very helpful.
With these Enthuware mock scores, you certainly must reschedule your exam appointment and postpone it with another 3 months. No doubt!
Secondly
you should probably use another study guide. You could use
OCAJP 7 study guide by Mala Gupta or K&B7. Maybe you could even buy both and use them as complementary resources. If you plan to take OCPJP7 (after passing OCAJP7), I would definitely purchase K&B7, it's probably the best study guide on the market for OCAJP7 and OCPJP7.
Do not waste Enthuware mock exams! Meaning don't take any other Enthuware mock exams in the next days/weeks. Now you should study and prepare yourself. If you want practice, you can use the mock exams you already took (the standard test, Test-1 and Test-2), mock questions and exams of your study guide (e.g. Mala Gupta and K&B7 have questions after each chapter, Mala Gupta has 1 mock exam and K&B7 has even 2 mock exams for OCA exam). Use the unattempted Enthuware mock exams to monitor your progress and current level. So after having studied 3-4 weeks, you can take another mock exam.
Write lots of code snippets without using an
IDE! You mentioned you have practiced a lot of code, which is certainly a good thing. But you didn't mention if you used an IDE or your favourite text editor (and javac/java). If you used an IDE to write lots of code snippets, get rid of the IDE and use Notepad, Notepad++ or any other text editor. To compile your
Java code use
javac and to run your programs use
java. I strongly advice against using an IDE while preparing for a certification exam, certainly if you are a junior Java programmer. The reason is simple: the IDE takes care of certain tasks for you (detecting compiler errors, code completion,...), but on the actual exam you don't have an IDE and you are completely on your own. I'm convinced you'll be able to spot errors more quickly in a given code snippet when you don't use an IDE. But this is just my opinion,
here you'll find different opinions about using an IDE while preparing for a certification exam.
Here and
here you'll find experiences from other ranchers who stopped using an IDE while preparing.
Here and
here you could find some other advice to improve your level and Java knowledge.
Hope it helps!
Kind regards,
Roel