I know the famous statement which saying (practice , practice and practice) is the most factor which let you pass the PMP exam.
What is your recommendation for me? Saving Changes...
What worked for me, and may or may not work for you, is to read the PMBOK cover to cover. Understand it. Get a good book, let's say Rita's 9th edition (no commission from this statement), and read it cover to cover - at least five times. Then test yourself - your understanding of PMBOK a hundred times. It took me more than a year and a half to feel ready to take the PMP exam, then the day of the exam, I felt like I forgot everything I had learned. But I passed, and did a lot better than I expected, and you probably will too! Saving Changes...
Drew CraigSr. Agile & Product Coach| VanguardPhiladelphia, Pa, United States
It is also a matter of being a good test taker - trust your intuition (you've worked very hard to get the knowledge behind it), answer of mark it (don't waste time choosing) - I ignored all network and formula questions to the end, don't second guess.
Time creeps up on you quick, and if you do not manage wisely, before you know it, you only have 1 hour left, with 75 questions - and panic sets in. A trick I did, was skip the first 10 questions to trick myself into thinking I was further ahead to help remain confident. I also did not take any bathroom or drink break until I was complete, and only had my marked questions to review which was I believe 10.
Good Luck, and stay confident. Saving Changes...
SUNNY HELWANDEBUSINESS LEAD| ExxonMobil Services Private LimitedDombivli, Maharashtra, India
In my opinion, doind regular revisions, taking few mock test helps you in clearing PMP.
However the fundamental and minimum requirement is understanding the concepts given in PMBOK, correlating those concepts with your real project issues and situations. Saving Changes...
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten AssociatesNew Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
My fellow colleague have you great advise. If you have a problem in timing only then you need to practice more on simulation exams so you can be able to scan the questions quickly and answer. Most of the questions are long and contains lots of information. Good Luck ! Saving Changes...
Anton OosthuizenSenior Business Analyst / Project Manager| Self EmployedPretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
I notice that your subject line mention a problem with timing. Remember that you have the ability to go back to unanswered, or flagged questions, use it. Do not sit and overthink a question that seems complex due to it's length. Scan it quickly, get the gist of what they are asking and then either respond or move on. Also if you have an idea but am not sure don't fret, write it down, flag the question and move on. If you have time you can go back, if you run out of time then at least you did not spend 80% of your time on 20% of the questions. Saving Changes...
SAJJAD PATILGeneral Manager| ViatrisBangalore, Karnataka, India
just one more suggestion. You will get a paper and a pencil to do rough work. write down the chart for process groups and knowledge areas (I am sure by now you remember it by heart) even before you start the test. This is will help you answer few very simple questions in no time. Once you write down the chart, you don't have to spend time remembering it again. you just need to refer to it.
Also, remember that there are a limited number of papers available for rough work. so manage well. All the best!! Saving Changes...
Markus KopkoAI Enabler for Project & Program Mgmt | Founder PMotion.ai / The PM
AI Coach| PMotion.aiHamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Hi Mansour,
i would recommend NOT ONLY doing as much sample questions as you can, cause practice is the key!
Furthermore you should try to really SIMULATE the exam. It is not an easy job to do 200 (more or less difficult) Questions in a time frame of 4 Hours.
Those 4 Hours could get really long and/or you could run out of time in case you will hang on to long to one very difficult/complex question for instance.
So, you should train your time management for the exam also.
You can do so with those tons of free sample question available on the internet, but in my experience, a professional tool which provides you exactly the exam circumstances, is much better for this.
Yes, it may take a little invest, but from my point of view and my experience this is priceless.
I would like to recommend you the exam simulator by Cornelius Fichtner, which provides you ? 1.800 high quality PMP questions and which gives you ? high flexibility in how to train your questions up to max. ? 9 fully loaded and timed exam simulations, each with ? 200 individual questions.
You may have a look here: ? http://goo.gl/9jh79N
To get an idea of what you can expect, please use ?the free/trial version to try out: ? http://goo.gl/SorPfD
Revising PMBOK and testing your knowledge on simulation exams will help you to improve your performance.
Also, keep knowledge areas chart, EVM formulae handy while solving the exams. You should be able to solve at least 5 simulator exams timely before you actually jump to PMP exam. Saving Changes...
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