After three days of jamming government regulations and systems engineering processes into my head (and sometimes missing), I am in my final hours of study before having to take a three hour test tomorrow.
I've learned much, but I am not ready. My confidence in success is low. Passing the test is not a requirement so much as the having the knowledge, but failing the test certainly has no benefit. However, it doesn't help to know that the testing writers (systems engineers and pscychometrists at the National Security Agency I'm told by the instructor) design the test around a non-high pass rate. Meaning they don't want low pass rate, but they don't want a real high one either.
They really only want the most subject knowledgeable folks passing, and I knew the day I walked into that classroom that I was at the bottom of the pack. That class was full of a bunch of REALLY smart people, with MUCH more experience than myself.
So, wish me luck. If I pass this test it will likely be more due to excellent deduction rather than true smarts for the topic. But it would certainly be nice to be among the few hundred people in the world to have passed this same exam (so says the instructor).
Next, next stop... Philly.
UPDATE, 25 AUGUST
Unbelievable. I passed. I am now an ISSEP. And one of less than four hundred. Crazy.
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