One Exam at a time?

[MorseLady]

I am doing a very intensive Windows 2000 Server MCP course combined with City and Guilds Level Three Networking and Systems Management. This is a two year course being taught in just one year and it is getting really hard. I am retired and doing it for personal fulfillment and a possible late third career(I have previously worked in Law and also in Music Teaching).

I told my tutor I was worried about my progress or lack of and after reassuring me that we had a while to go yet to exams which are optional anyway and that I would be ready he told me that I should drop everything else and concentrate on this course.

By everything else he means the LearnDirect A+ course augmented with books and CDs, plus doing Skill Drills and practice exams in practically everything from W98 and NT to XP and .NET and CISCO and Web Design and Networking and of course getting some pretty bum scores in things I have not studied and then getting despondent. I told him I was using these practice exams to learn but he says one exam at a time, so should I drop absolutely everything except the W2K Server and Networking course?

If I was at school or Uni I would be doing various courses, so what is the difference? Or are IT exams different from others?

Do I accept my tutor's advice and drop everything else?