Exam Update

As I have friends that are studying right now, I've checked at PMI website and Prometrics here in USA. I did not read anything about that.

I while wait until official confirmation before to scary them.

Maria, Anupam,

I am not sure what the big deal is even if this was true. If someone will get scared because he / she can't write notes then they should not sit for the exam.

I personally never used the scratch paper or did any brain dump what so ever. My advise is that when you study, do not rely on such things - Study as if this is not there. If it was there, it might be a plus and if not then this shouldn't affect the performance on the exam.

This is my humble opinion.

Hello all,

yes it is true and officially confirmed; please refer to this article here:


https://goo.gl/WsBSDg


No More Brain Dumps During Exam Tutorial


Effective immediately, PMI and Prometric have made the following change to the examination format of all PMI certifications: You are no longer allowed to take any notes during the 15 minute time of the tutorial.

Here is what this means for you.
Contents

1. PMI Brain Dump Policy
2. Are Brain Dumps Now Forbidden?
3. PMI Still Allows Brain Dumps
4. We Recommend: When in Doubt... Ask!
5. A Brain Dump is NOT = Exam Success!
6. Having Your Personal Brain Dumps IS Valuable
7. Read this Forum Post

please read further:

https://goo.gl/WsBSDg

Regards,

Markus

totally agree with you, Rami.

i didn't use a brain dump either ... just wrote down some formulas to be faster if there come some calculations to do.

Maria, Anupam,

I am not sure what the big deal is even if this was true. If someone will get scared because he / she can't write notes then they should not sit for the exam.

I personally never used the scratch paper or did any brain dump what so ever. My advise is that when you study, do not rely on such things - Study as if this is not there. If it was there, it might be a plus and if not then this shouldn't affect the performance on the exam.

This is my humble opinion.

Hi Maria,

no reason to scare anybody, but it is true. It is not longer allowed to do the brain dump WHILE the 15 minutes tutorial period.
But you can do your brain dump in the beginning of the exam time, but you should train to do it within a few minutes until it counts towards your time you will have to answer the questions ...

Regards,

Markus

PS: You may refer also to the article i mentioned in my previous posting ...

Rami,

For me wasn't a big deal, I didn't use it, but I have friends with "fish memory" that will help them to feel more confident.

Completely agree with you, that shouldn't affect the performance on the exam, but not all of us have the same abilities or stress control to prepare a test.

Markus,

I've checked your links, this is an article for a REP or company that helps people to prepare the test.

All based on Gregg Shaffer (Manager, Registered Education Provider (R.E.P.) Program said, similar to first Anupam post.

From my point of view, first I don't have the pleasure to know Gregg in order to ask him, second, this is not a confirmation, because it doesn't have any reference to oficial information as PMI website or Prometric.

I'll appreciate if someone has a "oficial" information, will share it.