First one done

I took the day pretty much off yesterday as I "prepared" myself for the exam. I did a brief study, watched about 4 hours of "Bones" and then did one more practice exam, scoring a 92%. Felt like I was pretty much ready to take the test. I wanted to see how well my mind did with a brief study period, then hours and hours of distraction and how much I could recall. I was pretty sure I was ready for the CIW Web Design Specialist which is the course CUV1 at WGU.

This morning I took my test at my former community college, where I volunteer twice a week with my former instructor, helping out his new class.

I've been in the testing center many times before. I was scheduled for an 8:30am test, but no one was waiting so I started around 8:15am.

99% of the questions were NOT what I had studied. I had read on the discussion boards of the college, that the material we studied was outdated. For example, Firefox was listed as the #1 web browser, which is no longer true as Chrome holds the largest market share now. This chart shows usage as of 2012.

And here is another chart showing as of 2013

The questions on the test are similar in many aspects so I was able to extrapolate from my study and do well enough. It took me approximately 20 or so minutes to complete the exam and I scored a 78%. For the perfectionist inside of me, this is not good enough but my student mentor, Joyce, was very happy for me as I am way ahead in my schedule for completion of this semester.

My next class is Operating Systems 1, class ID of DRV1 which is actually the first part of the CompTIA Linux+ , LX0-101. I am pretty familiar with Linux, as I use it exclusively for my Android ROM development for the Dell Streak 7. So I am excited to start this next class. First class, I was scheduled for 6 weeks, I took 9 days.