Hey everyone,
I started taking my exams this past June (CDS first) after about 10 years of continuous work.
I am not a strong test taker but took the first test with very little studying (I spent about 8 hours or so a weekend before the test) the first time and failed...
The second time I studied a lot more but really only reading the books not many practice questions... and failed.
I finally took the CDS test the 3rd time recently and passed! I think the reason I passed is I used the designer hacks quizzes and studied them till i got nearly 100% (I think my highest was 99%) on the 100 question full test. As everyone knows the vignette is easy for CDS but the questions are tricky with how they ask them, the designer hacks quizzes helped tremendously and anyone having trouble with the exam i highly recommend this program before the rolling clock pushes you to 5.0. I now need to figure out how to pass the vignette for the PPP exam as i have taken this test 3 times as well and only ever failed the vignette!
Thanks!