Graeme CardSenior Programme Manager - Strategy & Science| Gisborne District CouncilGisborne, Gisborne, New Zealand
Final question before I sit the exam tomorrow. Feeling well prepared and semi-confident! The online course I did had 5 full practice tests on it and I did them all. However, they seemed to ask the question kinda of in order i.e. initiating questions first then, planning etc with closing questions last. Is the real exam structured this way? I'm presuming it's a bit more random.... but you never know, so after your guys impressions..... Saving Changes...
Tip 1: You will be given a sheet of paper, try and write out all the formulas (because the formulas will be fresh in your memory) as you don't want to have to waste time trying to remember them.
Tip 2: If you pace yourself accordingly, you will have more than enough time to review every question.
Yes Graeme, they removed that advantage a while ago. When I took my exam a year ago, it was not allowed either.
Congrats by the way and well done :-)
Hi everyone
Does any one knows what is the reason to not allowed to do brain dump? I was counting with that
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1 reply by Graeme Card
Feb 20, 2018 5:58 PM
Graeme Card
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you can still do the brain dump - it just uses up some of your exam time. I did it and it took about 18 minutes - had to hold my nerve !!!! but I was okay for time. Had about 1h15mins at the end to review skipped questions (28) of them and the 48 I had marked as being uncertain.
By the way, Congratulations Greame! Saving Changes...
Anish AbrahamPrivacy Program Manager| University of WashingtonAuburn, Wa, United States
Feb 20, 2018 2:20 AM
Replying to Graeme Card
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Hi everyone - thanks for your tips and suggestions and advice. I passed my exam earlier today so that's great. Someone ask me to note my impressions of the exam so here goes.
Firstly - my on-line course said that I could use the remaining free time in my tutorial before the exam - about 14 minutes - to do a brain dump. However, I was expressly forbidden from doing so by the exam proctors at my testing site. So is this true? Fist 20 minutes of my exams was doing a brain dump.
Secondly, I though the exam asked really fair questions - hardly any of the trick type questions I had encountered in my on-lline practice exams, and hardly any negatively based question - much to my relief!
Thirdly - all the questions were situational - no questions such as "what's at the bottom of Maslow's Hierachy". and most (about 80-90%) were "what should the PM do next?"
Fourth - it seemed to me that most of my answers were "communication management plan" based "make change request", or Pareto charts - which did freak me out a little bit and test the courage of my convictions. But after reviewing my answers, I still kept those answers.
Once again, thanks to everyone for their input - it was much appreciated. Now it's time for this stay-at-home parent to find a job!
Congrats and all the best !! Saving Changes...
Graeme CardSenior Programme Manager - Strategy & Science| Gisborne District CouncilGisborne, Gisborne, New Zealand
Feb 20, 2018 4:51 PM
Replying to Natalia Camino
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Hi everyone
Does any one knows what is the reason to not allowed to do brain dump? I was counting with that
you can still do the brain dump - it just uses up some of your exam time. I did it and it took about 18 minutes - had to hold my nerve !!!! but I was okay for time. Had about 1h15mins at the end to review skipped questions (28) of them and the 48 I had marked as being uncertain. Saving Changes...
Yes I think that might be risky for a lot of people Graeme. They use to allow people to do that in the intro time which didn't go against the exam time. Not anymore. I would suggest people memorize formulas and brain dump info like I did before going in, rather than spend X minutes during exam time re-creating it.
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1 reply by Graeme Card
Feb 20, 2018 8:54 PM
Graeme Card
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So if you brain dumped info before you went in, how did they let you in to the exam room with it. I guess I'm not understanding what you said. For me the 18 minutes was worth it as it was more of a confidence builder for me, and the routine I had used before every practice exam. I agree it is a lot of time and might be a risky strategy for some people, but I was pretty confident I would get through the 200 questions and still have about 1.5h left to go over everything - in the end I had about 1.25h - so it worked for me.
Hi everyone - thanks for your tips and suggestions and advice. I passed my exam earlier today so that's great. Someone ask me to note my impressions of the exam so here goes.
Firstly - my on-line course said that I could use the remaining free time in my tutorial before the exam - about 14 minutes - to do a brain dump. However, I was expressly forbidden from doing so by the exam proctors at my testing site. So is this true? Fist 20 minutes of my exams was doing a brain dump.
Secondly, I though the exam asked really fair questions - hardly any of the trick type questions I had encountered in my on-lline practice exams, and hardly any negatively based question - much to my relief!
Thirdly - all the questions were situational - no questions such as "what's at the bottom of Maslow's Hierachy". and most (about 80-90%) were "what should the PM do next?"
Fourth - it seemed to me that most of my answers were "communication management plan" based "make change request", or Pareto charts - which did freak me out a little bit and test the courage of my convictions. But after reviewing my answers, I still kept those answers.
Once again, thanks to everyone for their input - it was much appreciated. Now it's time for this stay-at-home parent to find a job!
Congratulations Graeme and welcome to the club. Saving Changes...
Graeme CardSenior Programme Manager - Strategy & Science| Gisborne District CouncilGisborne, Gisborne, New Zealand
Feb 20, 2018 8:14 PM
Replying to Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD
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Yes I think that might be risky for a lot of people Graeme. They use to allow people to do that in the intro time which didn't go against the exam time. Not anymore. I would suggest people memorize formulas and brain dump info like I did before going in, rather than spend X minutes during exam time re-creating it.
So if you brain dumped info before you went in, how did they let you in to the exam room with it. I guess I'm not understanding what you said. For me the 18 minutes was worth it as it was more of a confidence builder for me, and the routine I had used before every practice exam. I agree it is a lot of time and might be a risky strategy for some people, but I was pretty confident I would get through the 200 questions and still have about 1.5h left to go over everything - in the end I had about 1.25h - so it worked for me.
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1 reply by Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD
Feb 20, 2018 11:08 PM
Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD
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They didn't let me into the exam room with it, and they didn't allow me to write or do anything on paper pre the exam starting, like candidates use to be able to do before the exam in the tutorial time. I read the tutorial instructions (I think they give you 15 minutes or so), but I couldn't write anything down. So before I went into the exam (I am talking the weeks and months preceding) I memorized the brain dump of formulas, some key concepts and words, T&T's (yes I memorized them) etc.
So if you brain dumped info before you went in, how did they let you in to the exam room with it. I guess I'm not understanding what you said. For me the 18 minutes was worth it as it was more of a confidence builder for me, and the routine I had used before every practice exam. I agree it is a lot of time and might be a risky strategy for some people, but I was pretty confident I would get through the 200 questions and still have about 1.5h left to go over everything - in the end I had about 1.25h - so it worked for me.
They didn't let me into the exam room with it, and they didn't allow me to write or do anything on paper pre the exam starting, like candidates use to be able to do before the exam in the tutorial time. I read the tutorial instructions (I think they give you 15 minutes or so), but I couldn't write anything down. So before I went into the exam (I am talking the weeks and months preceding) I memorized the brain dump of formulas, some key concepts and words, T&T's (yes I memorized them) etc. Saving Changes...
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