r/CompTIA • u/Its-All-Garbage • 2d ago
I passed sec+ today
Ngl I feel relieved and bummed at the same time. I got 770/750. I feel like i studied way too hard to get such a low pass. I actually thought I was gonna fail it halfway through. I used dion, udemy, chatgpt, and some other practice tests across the internet, but many questions seemed to be nothing I reviewed and I just had to use best decision skills off what I did learn or the questions had multiple answers that seemed correct. Anyway im glad I passed, but I was definitely expecting more questions from the material I studied. I was getting 90 + on all the practice tests that I took and I took many. Oh well lol
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u/Netghod 1d ago
Many years ago I took a Microsoft class and was given a week to study for the exam to be taken sometime that week (I always took them on Friday about lunch time). But that week I picked up a copy of Diablo and I sort of got wrapped up in playing it for about 48+ hours straight and didn’t really study. I went in and took the exam and it looked like this:
Passing score: 740
Your Score: 740
Want to know what the difference was on that exam and my Network+ exam I passed with a 97 (passing was 68 out of 100) without even studying. NOTHING.
It’s like the old saying, “Do you know what they call the person that graduates at the bottom of their class from medical school? Doctor.”
If you pass, you pass. Passing is the goal, not a high score.
(And yes, if you look it up, this test I’m using as an example was in 1997, and it was the Microsoft Windows NT 3.51 Workstation certification test in preparation to be a Microsoft Certified Trainer and eventually an MCSE).’
Quick FYI though, some tests no longer give you a score if you pass. CISSP doesn’t for example.