Have you taken the PMP Exam? Post your tip!

I took the exam this month for the second time and passed. The difference for me this time was studying more books and using tools that actually had applications rather than studying so pmbok. On the first exam I spend more time studying the pmbok and my notes rather than applying what I was learning. On the second trial I spent six weeks studying beforehand I read Rita's books and it all of the exercises I use several mobile apps and practice those daily and was able to pass on the second try

I took the exam for PMP on February 10, 2018. paper based. in Ecuador. I really felt comfortable but unfortunately did not pass. I could not finish the last 20 questions (I did not even read them for lack of time, anyway I answered them, guessing).

TIP: answering the last questions at the beginning of the exam could help. What do you think? That is, do not pass through the exam in order but try to leave unanswered questions other than the last ones.

Really useful for starters like me, Thanks

Bernardo - sorry to hear about your results. I am studying right now to take the exam on 3/21. Things that I am finding helpful are: Do not use PMChallenge as a simulator, you can find many true simulators for free and some you can purchase. Prepcast is always mentioned as the closest to the actual test.

Everyone learns in different ways, but the value of doing a complete practice exam (4 hours/200 questions) is crucial so you can experience how it feels to sit and focus for 4 hours, be able to handle 200 questions, and learn how to watch your time and pace yourself - i.e. hurry up or you have enough time go back and review questions you marked.

I have seen many PM's mention that you should try to answer around 2,000 practice questions. And always look up the questions you got wrong.

That's my 2 cents.

Diane

I took an exam of PMP on 23rd of Feb 2018, and I failed I studied PMBOOK a lot and little of "How to pass the exam on the first trial" by Andy Crow, I just found my self to know the procedures but I was inexperience with lots of exercises and mock exam I thought the questions were going to be little bit direct and for real I was wrong, it gave me a very hard time to answer the situational questions, and also when I got there first thing I just started to draw the PMBOOK table which include all the knowledge areas and the project processes hope it could have helped me in one way or another... But the results it was just, I lost lot of time drawing and use more than 25mins which also put my situation jeopardized out of time which also leading me not to concentrate on the last questions just to put the answers without checking if its owky or not., but I learned a lot and hope next time I will be the one holding the PMP.