[JDMurray]

Originally Posted by LarryDaMan

I took two days off before my bootcamp, so I will have a Thursday-Sunday mini camp at home before it starts. My goal all along was to walk into the bootcamp being able to pass on day one, and just use the time at camp for distraction free studying. If I learn something new, it will be a bonus.

That's the way to do it. The recommendation is that people should start studying 2-3 months before a bootcamp so they will be prepared to understand the information that's being thrown to them at light-speed. People who walk into a bootcamp unprepared and thinking that they'll be taught everything they need to know for the exam usually don't do very well because the information is presented so quickly and there's no time to fully understand it only in class.

Originally Posted by LarryDaMan

When I started studying for real about 2 months ago, I made this nifty spread sheet to keep track of every practice question that I took. It breaks it down by domain and then totals everything. I will use that as an indicator of where to focus on those last few days. I also scribble down in a notebook every topic that I don't FULLY grasp, so I can wiki/google it at a later time.

So far I have taken 1755 practice questions from Shon Harris, OIG, Transcender, CCCURE, Preplogic, Expresscerts (ISC2).... and I have about an 80%. Most of my worst scores were in July and August... so I have improved.

I'm taking a more cognitive approach, where I keep track of the possible exam question topics and gauge my progress by my ability to give a 1-2 minute speech on each concept. The practice exams are just to find factual and reasoning details that I may have missed. And because most of the practice exams questions out there aren't of the same format and quality of the actual CISSP exams, I don't put much stock in the scores that I get; I'm just using the questions as fodder for data mining and stamina-training my brain.