""Edward Solomon"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > If the GK BSCN course uses the official Cisco materials, the last day is
> > mainly a "superlab" that, if you've been listening and understanding the
> > previous four days, you can complete in an hour or two. Its more-or-less
a
> > combination of all of the previous course labs. My lab partner and I
were
> > out of there by 11:00, even having taken quite a bit of time to 'play'.
>
> We also teach these courses at IBM (nice to know there's a decent
> alternative to GKN, at least in Canada, where they had a monopoly until
> recently). In my experience, the Cisco courses are *so* fully packed with
> material that it is virtually impossible to finish much before 5pm EVERY
DAY
> INCLUDING FRIDAY. The labs do take longer than the estimated time, on
> average, and the majority of students enjoy the variety of activities -
> written exercises, case studies, hands-on labs. I know that whenever I
teach
> a Cisco course, the customer gets his money's worth. There's no cutting
> corners and finishing early. I warn the class of this on day one at 9am.
I respect, and appreciate, that you try to give the student their money's
worth. But in the case of BSCN, the last portion is an optional "superlab"
for which you are allocated 3 hours. It is, literally, a rehash of the
material in all of the previous labs of the course. If you understood those,
there is no way it should take 3 hours to complete - its just not that
difficult. As for the rest of the course labs, maybe it was just my partner
and I, but none of them took even 3/4 of the time we were alloted.
Admittedly, a couple of other pods were slower, and maybe my experience was
the exception. By the time the labs came around, the material was understood
well enough by my partner and me, and most other pods, that the labs were
very simple.
I'm not complaining, mind you, just pointing out that in the case of BSCN, I
think you would find on average that the Friday class will not last a full
day. The rest of the week, we were usually out by 4:00 or so, simply because
we ended the day on labs, which did not take us as long to complete as we
were allocated.
BTW, a plug for the instructor, Robert Myhre with Ascolta. He was very good.
I believe he has a BSCN book coming out that I may purchase even though I
will have passed the Routing 2.0 test by then.
---JRE---
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