Tuesday, January 18, 2005

Microsoft Certified Professional

I PASSED!!!!! PHEW!!! I passed my first exam!! i can't believe it!!! I said before that i would surely pass in my previous post. But the goings wasn't that easy. Yesterday i was doing 2 practice exam papers and i had scored 60% and 70% and that means fail. Since then i was so worried and wondering how i had got myself into this deep a #$%$. So last night as i tried to sleep, i was thinking about my exam and my situation. If there was a time where i had so much worry it was last night. Then the realisation came, this was no ordinary exam like NUS where i could just get 50% and above constituting a pass, it was a PROFESSIONAL exam and that means i had to get 70% and above! Oh man, so there i went scolding my lazy self which was still in an NUS mood. The next day i woke up, i rushed through some last minute things i wanted to clarify on. And off i went to tiong bahru. The worry still lingered in me and it was really bad. Then came the start of the exam and i took a deep breath, said a prayer and started. To my horror of horrors, the questions were sooooo unlike those i had done before!! IOW, it was unlike those from the practice exams! Oh my, then i felt i had gone into a deeper $#%$ and i couldn't concentrate in reading the questions. I had to read each question a few times to decipher its meaning! Worse, i was harboring the thought that i was going to fail! It went on like that for the first 1.5 hours. However, the next hour i didn't feel so bad already. Perhaps i had worried too much and so i had unconsciously resigned to my fate. Anyway, as i pressed the "submit" button, i didn't expect anything really. I wasn't expecting any result, i just wanted to "submit and die" so to speak. BUT, to my surprise, it said i got 770 out of 1000!!! And that meant i went pass the passing mark of 700!! Praise the Lord!!! Passing one exam also means i'm now a Microsoft Certified Professional. Now i just have 2 more papers to go. This time, i'll make sure i'm well prepared for them.

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