Just passed my Unity Certification Exam with a score of 85%. I want to say a big thank you to Ben and Sam for this course as my prior Unity experience was just with 2D - so a lot to make up. I was a bit nervous, but it turned out I was really well prepared by this course; I think there were 2 questions I genuinely didn’t know out of 100 . As others have said, I got tripped up by language and wording, so make sure you read those questions!
My exam was at the Melbourne Unite Developer Conference ( part of Melbourne international games week). First of all I want to point out that Unity’s customer service were brilliant! After I bought my conference pass and exam ticket, they introduced a discount if you bought both, and refunded me the difference without me saying anything, First I heard about it, was when they sent me an email saying they were refunding $50! Second, my advice is if you can avoid it, don’t take your exam at the conference. The morning was amazing: unity key note; Nvidea VRWorks keynote; Particle phys and such… (playing cricket on VR) but the afternoon I missed because I wanted to do some last minute cramming. When I was speaking to the others taking the exam several of them said they felt the same, so it’s something to bare in mind.
As for the exam, it was just as everyone else has said - you take 100 questions from a random sample of 500. You’re quizzed on the topics in alphabetical order and you know your score after each section, so you can keep a running total. There were 16 of us sitting the exam, I took my time and finished in 50 minutes, most people finished in about 40 and the last two were just over an hour, so you do have lots of time.
My main tip is study Animation backwards - it’s a big section and the first because of the alphabet, so knowing you did well in that is a real confidence boost for the rest of the exam!
For me the hardest section in terms of language is lighting. I did pretty poorly there, despite it being one of the areas I’m actually strongest on in my own understanding and testing, and I think a couple of questions I either mis-read or thought they were talking about something else.
One nice thing was that many of the heads of unity were there for the conference, so the guy in charge of all of unity’s certification and training world wide was asking feedback about what questions we found too vague and such at the end
In terms of how I prepared for this exam, it was 100% this course. I first watched all the videos through not completing the challenges (sorry ben) and just making rough notes at what I missed, then the next week I watched the videos through again doing the challenges. After that I went through the videos a third time on 2x speed not doing the challenges and then I went through using my own examples for the challenges. That took me up to the week before the exam, and in that week, I took the practice exam on the monday, made notes of all my scores and then spent last week watching videos out of order - that’s my top tip once youve seen them a few times: watching them out of order really helps!
Thanks again guys! Got my T-shirt, but finished just too late to get a badge (There were only enough for half those taking the exam ) and had to choose between a water bottle and a mousematinstead lol.
Best of luck to anyone studying for the exam: I was dead nervous too - you can do it