Studying for SDD (2 Viewers)

[Jubei]

How did you get about studying for SDD ?

I find answering syllabus dot points entirely useless because none of the questions usually refer to it

how did you study for it ?

 

[:: ck ::]

use all the textooks availabl
i use 3 textbooks in total

 

[Jubei]

How did you use those textbooks to study ?

and is there any successone type books for SDD that gives you full answers to questions ?

 

[:: ck ::]

i just read thru them all... each textbook

highlighted definitions etc...

rememebered them...

it has worked for me so far im coming first just by reading it over every few weeks or so

 

[ezzy85]

ive been using the sam davis book and summarising it. write down definitions and try to learn them. i usually end up doing this the night before, so its not as effective. it would work well if you plan on studying weeks before an exam.

 

[Rahul]

yep...i'm planning to make notes in the holidays from sam davis' book, excel, wilson and fowlers book.....meh its gunna b boring!

 

[ezzy85]

whats the wilson book? never heard of it. any good?

 

[Rahul]

caroline wilson....its blue!

lol...i havent used it during the year much.

 

[:: ck ::]

carole wilson's one is the cambridge book

 

[Fiona]

I use the Davis one (purple), Wilson one (blue) and Excel one... but mainly the blue one

I basically just type up a summary of each chapter, then read it, highlight it, and hope that some of it might sink in

 

[Rahul]

likewise, there is a lot of content to cover, esp if u do the evo. of languages as the option. luckily i dont. developers view of hardware is so much easier

 

[Kn1ght_M4r3]

i uze Carole wilson one, and no its not that good. I think the sam davis one is better and excel is great for quick revision. =0)

i also practice algorithms coz that is definitely gonna be in the examz. and yah.

 

[Rahul]

i think the excel book is a must, it covers all areas well.

 

[Ragerunner]

How do you practice for exam ?

cuz i tried doing dot points from syllabus and horribly failed

while i did the same for physics and terrifically passed :O

 

[Rahul]

i think u will find that the main focus of the sdd exam is on scenarios, ticketing, railway system, etc. and u have to apply ur knowledge to the scenarios they throw at u.
best practice would be past papers and similar questions with worked solutions. learn the style of answering each question, this would include going back and revising the content(for eg- dfd's, feasibility study, ect)
anyways thats my 50 cents.

 

[Ragerunner]

there any successone type books for sdd ?

 

[anti]

For me, studying for SDD involved a lot of memorising crap.

Learn how to write algorithms

 

[:: ck ::]

Originally posted by anti
For me, studying for SDD involved a lot of memorising crap.

beautifully said

 

[Ragerunner]

i spent my time studying IPO charts then when i tried a scenario question i couldn't identify what the inputs/processing/outputs are.

how do you identify these ?

 

[Beaky]

Yep scenarios is the key i reckon...

and algorithims... otherwise i just summarise with Excel and Davis...