I gave ZCO at the Lucknow center and I’ve got one word for the whole experience, TERRIBLE!
You should know this before you go ahead: I live in bareilly and had to travel 250km to attend ZCO at Lucknow center, which is the nearest.
Now let me point out the things(in order they happened):
- Reporting time was 1PM and every kid reached their at that time. However no one was even allowed to get inside the campus until it was 1:50PM. Everyone had to stand outside in scorching weather.
- When we got inside at 1:50PM, we hope the exam would finally start but it didn’t! There were issued with every system and the connectivity was poor (I’m assuming this because they were on phone saying that the internet isn’t working and other similar phrases).
- The first PC that I was alloted had a malfunctioning Keyboard and the “#” key won’t work, including many others. So they replaced the keyboard but here’s the thing, my 10 min practice session’s time wasn’t paused. When around 2 min were left in practice session, I realized that the debugger isn’t working the way it should. It won’t even compile and run the program. That black window won’t even appear.
- They now replaced my system and boom, my practice session was over and the 180min time already started. 10 more minutes went by and I finally had a system with partly working keyboard and okayish debugger. But wait, it doesn’t end here.
- Countless number of times, the session expired. Other half of the times the debugger won’t even stop for the user input. (I even tried a basic input output program to confirm this issue). And do remember my time was flowing.
In all, I would say this was very unfair! Moreover when there was the review page, where we would give ratings, the instructor himself clicked on next, thus not even allowing me give genuine ratings.
This was a very unfair and poorly organized exam. I don’t understand how am I even supposed to work on the problems when the system isn’t okay.