My New Study Schedule
Posted by Aragoen Celtdra on 3rd April 2008
Finally finished some sort of a decent looking study schedule that I can follow in preparation for the INCD2 test I plan to take at the end of June.
In the next 3 months, my schedule is going to look a little something like the table below. This is not the complete table. I have the complete schedule for the whole 3 months. This is just an illustration of how I plan to approach my studies.
| PART I: LAN Switching | ||||
| Monday, March 31, 2008 | CHAPTER 1: Virtual LANs | Page 1-52 (52 pages) | ||
| Tuesday, April 01, 2008 | ||||
| Wednesday, April 02, 2008 | ||||
| Thursday, April 03, 2008 | ||||
| Friday, April 04, 2008 | CHAPTER 2: Spanning Tree Protocol | Page 57-107 (50 Pages) | ||
| Saturday, April 05, 2008 | ||||
| Sunday, April 06, 2008 | ||||
| Monday, April 07, 2008 | ||||
| Tuesday, April 08, 2008 | CHAPTER 3: Troubleshooting LAN Switching | Page 109-155 (46 pages) | ||
| Wednesday, April 09, 2008 | ||||
| Thursday, April 10, 2008 | ||||
| Friday, April 11, 2008 | ||||
I’ve been consistently waking up at about 6am and study until about 8:30 am everyday for the last 3 months. Then I study for about 3 more hours at night. That’s not including a few times I get to study at work during down times. Here’s a glimpse of what my typical day looks like:
6:00 – 6:30 Wake up
7:00 – 8:30 Study
9:00 – 6:00p Work
6:30 – 8:30p Family time
8:30 – 11:30p Study
12:00m Sleep
So given a typical work week, I can usually put in 5-6 hours a day of studying. On the weekends, I usually plan on putting in about 7-8 hours of study time, depending on what we have planned for that weekend. Of course not all those times are devoted to pure studying. You also have to take into account lab preparation time, unexpected distractions, breaks, and reading other resources such as forums, tech news, and the occasional web surfing and checking sports scores online. But for the most part, I try to keep the study time slots devoted to a lot of study.
So my goal is to take the ICND2 (640-816) exam on June 28, and to have finished at least two CCNP track exams by the end of the year. That amounts to 3 months of studying per test by the end of the year. Rough estimate puts my study time to about 1800 hours a year if I studied every day for about 5 hours a day. As long as my motivation keeps up with me until the end of the year, I should be good. I also want to condition myself to do this in case I want to pursue a CCIE – which at this point is a strong possibility. In fact, I’m approaching this whole journey as if my ultimate goal is to achieve a CCIE. The only thing that may possibly get in the way of this plan are family issues, a change in work situation/condition, or some sort of disability on my part. Otherwise I’d like to see myself through the whole thing.
We’ll just see what happens, I guess.
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