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I took the SCJP Java 6 test about 2 weeks ago and didn't do so well...so I am retaking it in tomorrow. Has anyone ever retaken it and what were the questions like? Do they give you a completely new set of questions or is it pretty much the same? How often do the questions get renewed?

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The SCJP is, afair, compiled from a pool of similar questions for each section of the exam. Your likelihood of seeing any of the same questions from your first round is pretty low. – mcfinnigan Apr 23 '12 at 13:10

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The Oracle certifications exams are designed with way more questions than there are in a single exam, so that the probability that someone who is retaking the exam would get some questions he got in the previous attempt, is actually null.

So basically, you could expect getting questions from the same kind but never the exact same ones.

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I retook the test and some of the questions appeared again. Apparently they have a pool of roughly 270 questions that they choose at random for each test. If someone retakes it, it's possible that he/she will see some of the same questions twice.

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