John Caron, MBA, PMP, CSMVP - Technology Project Solutions Consultant| Bank of AmericaJacksonville, Fl, United States
I know a person who tested earlier today and received the following "scores". Moderately Proficient in four domains and Below in Planning. My perspective is this tester may have just barely answered enough to obtain Moderately Proficient in the four domains and score very low in Planning to have failed the exam.
While I know Planning constitutes approximately 24% of the exam, is it still valid that a passing score is 62? I'm curious if any person knows any person who had four Moderately Proficient which resulted in a failure of the exam.
John Caron, MBA, PMP, CSMVP - Technology Project Solutions Consultant| Bank of AmericaJacksonville, Fl, United States
Praveen, thank you for your above link, this proved insightful. Safe to assume the PMP is now like a boxing match between two power hitters. Go in well prepared as you have no idea what your opponent (PMI) will hit you with until the judges (PMI) score the battle. Saving Changes...
To assess the difficulty of questions, PMI trial questions during previous exams (that are not part of the marking score) and they also seek expert opinion from PMP qualified volunteers, it's a unusual way of doing it but more and more qualifying bodies are scoring this way as advised by ASQ (benchmark for quality) Saving Changes...
I can understand the need for an iterative search to find a balance for the certification scoring system. However, I think it is in the best interest of PMI as an organization focused on standard/best practices to find a meaningful scoring standard for its certification exam.
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1 reply by John Caron, MBA, PMP, CSM
Jun 21, 2016 10:06 AM
John Caron, MBA, PMP, CSM
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Emmanuel, you are not alone with that thought. I wonder if this also applies for all other certifications.
Product Operations Program ManagerBarcelona, Cataluña, Spain
Funny I learn all of this after passing the exam :-) Saving Changes...
John Caron, MBA, PMP, CSMVP - Technology Project Solutions Consultant| Bank of AmericaJacksonville, Fl, United States
Jun 20, 2016 2:10 PM
Replying to Emmanuel Umoh, Phd, PMP
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I can understand the need for an iterative search to find a balance for the certification scoring system. However, I think it is in the best interest of PMI as an organization focused on standard/best practices to find a meaningful scoring standard for its certification exam.
Emmanuel, you are not alone with that thought. I wonder if this also applies for all other certifications. Saving Changes...
Immanuel gururatnaLead Project Manager - IT Infrastructure| Kyndryl Solutions Pvt. Ltd.Bengalore, Karnataka, India
This is what you get as a printed document from PROMETRIC after the PMP Exam
Understanding Your Exam Results
Your exam results are reported in two ways:
1. An overall pass/fail result score is generated based on the number of questions you answered correctly.
2. The second level of results is the assignment of one of three proficiency levels to each domain.
• Each domain is assigned one of three levels of proficiency - Proficient, Moderately Proficient and Below Proficient - based on the number of questions answered correctly within the domain.
• This provides direction about where your strengths and weaknesses fall.
PMI defines the levels of “proficiency” as follows:
Proficient - indicates performance is above the average level of knowledge in this domain.
Moderately Proficient - indicates performance that is at the average level of knowledge in this domain.
Below Proficient - indicates performance is below the average level of knowledge in this domain.
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1 reply by John Caron, MBA, PMP, CSM
Jun 22, 2016 9:57 AM
John Caron, MBA, PMP, CSM
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Anupam,
You are correct in your reply, the mention is what a person receives from the PROMETRIC testing center however, it fails to mention the method it uses for "grading" an individuals pass/fail.
Markus provided a phenomenal link that genuinely explains the test scores and I wish the PMI would include a one paragraph statement to explain the results. I'm sure my friend is not the only person who has scored 4 MPs and 1 BP to fail, I'm still shocked at Mounir knowing a person who failed with 5 MPs.
This all ties to Markus link of explanation - thanks again, Markus.
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