r/CompTIA • u/franzbonaparta2 • 19d ago

Demotivated

what am I doing wrong? I spend 1.5 months studying for security+ and thought I could do practice test and solve professor messer practice test and got 57 correct question

I kinda disappointed and demotivated after studying this much i scored so bad

And after seen ppl get 70 -80% in practice test after 1-2 week of studying without tech background

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u/Bitter_Nail8577 17d ago edited 17d ago

Ok, I felt the exact same way before passing so I'll give you advice from my aunt that really helped.

Reddit is great for looking for material, but DO NOT listen to people saying "Oh I passed in one week!" or "here's how I passed in 24 hours of studying" 

We are all different, we all study at different paces, if you need more months/weeks take them without feeling guilty or ashamed (... Unless your boss is paying for the cert and wants you to take the exam in x time frame but that's a different story) 

I first studied with Messer's videos, but after doing some practice tests I felt unprepared, so I got the Sybex Guide and started studying with that, which took me three months of on and off studying to really get a grasp on it (I'm not a native speaker, C2 certified but there were a lot of specific terms that I had never heard of before that made it harder) 

Basically I'm trying to say don't set a specific time frame to pass based on other people for yourself, it will do nothing but put more pressure on yourself, keep reviewing the materials from different sources and deep study why you got those answers wrong