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So I've been getting some old grades up, and taking some new courses, before I start studying at univercity 100% after the summer. One of those were a distance course called "Computer communication" (which is basically CCNA 1 for you Cisco people).
Anyway I've been kind of lazy and this school calls you up and you have a "grade talk" in the end of the term. So today was that day, and I was nervous as hell. I expected it to go on for something like 30 minutes to an hour and have questions about VLSM, calculating broadcast adresses and such things. So I study like crazy yesterday, write notes to cheat a little bit on the hard parts.
So today he calls me, I get to say what I thought of the course and he goes "Ok so now lets get into the grade talk" and I'm like "oh shit, I'm not gonna make this". Then he says: "Ok so I'm not gonna ask you questions, instead you'll tell me a bit about three of the layers in the OSI-model. You choose which".
LOL THE FUCKING OSI-MODEL?! I KNOWN THAT SHIT INSIDE OUT SINCE I WAS 10. All that hard studying for nothing! NOTHING I TELL YOU.
So yeah, distance studying is a fucking joke. Atleast with this school.
 
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On the contrary; it made you study hard and know your stuff. That's what it's for.
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CCNA is really hard in some places and really easy in others.
For example where I did it. We had to get above 80% for every single test (which was every week) and final exam (which was 4 times) for the whole year, and then we graduated.
We didn't have grade talks, but we had prac tests and damn they were hard, getting all these routers and switches to work with servers and crap. But doing it at a proper place is really cool, the place I went actually ran ridiculous amounts of Cisco hardware, fibre optics and all the shiz, the people who taught were actually qualified cisco people who have a job as network engineers, who were also built and run the implementation at the school.
Although I did CCNA 1-4, CCNA 1 was pretty easy, although I cheated in the prac test by watching someone else, otherwise I would have failed lol.
Some guy I know in Sweden got like %50 for everything and passed, even though that's a complete fail in Melbourne or at least where I went.
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It is as with any other IT-related course. You do it to get it on paper, but how much you learn during the year is up to you.
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wow I've never seen someone so upset with acing an exam
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CCNA is so easy omg anyone who has troubles with those courses should really choose another career
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so whats your mood like right now?
a) ultra upset because of the fact that you studied but the studied content wasn't examined or
b) ultra upset x2 because you aced it anyway (oh how exhausting having to smash an exam on the basis of a topic i know inside out since i w4z t3n yEaRz oLD)
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When you drop a pencil, do you feel like committing suicide?
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Snet
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Online classes at my school are ridiculously hard and annoying.
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I did the same course at NTI-skolan, distance of course. It wasn't hard at all but it seems I had a much better teacher since he actually discussed my test and project with me, rather than having me talk about the OSI model. But the only decent-ish thing you get out of that course is the OSI model and subnetting, the rest is kind of outdated and not a necessity to know, although it can help at times. (In my opinion, of course)
And the OSI model isn't as obvious to others as it is to you, I hadn't heard of it before I did the course, and I've been quite a nerd throughout my early years, but I never went to high school.
Edit: The reason why you (and me) found the course easy is probably because we've grown up with doing what the course was supposed to teach you. I can't speak for you but ever since we got ADSL -98 and I installed it as an 11 year old kid I've been in charge for setting up our network and basically anything computer related in our household. While I may not be a professional I'm a lot better than the average person reading CCNA 1 at a high school level, and I bet you are too.
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I took CISCO in HS ... it was kinda a joke class. The teacher knew less than us and we just followed the online/software lessons every day.
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You'd be impressed to know how many kids fail these things though :/
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I'm kind of curious what people learn in these kinds of classes. Which layers of the OSI model did you talk about? What issues did you discuss?
It's always interesting to me to see the different perspectives of people with different backgrounds learning the same material. I'm an EE and would prefer to talk about layers 1-3 in that order. In many robotics and especially control theory classes, you see people from different engineering backgrounds. Of course, there are many more examples.
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