Hi Thambi,

Please join the 2nd timer club. I am also a fellow of the same group.

I shall tell you what I am doing,

1. Reading PMBOk, Rita, and Head 1st.

2. Took paid site of Brainbok for ITTOs. It has helped me a lot. I score 85+ even if my wife logs in Brainbok and asks me questions at random. I am still to master OPA updates and Project document updates thogh.

3. Devote 2 + 3 hours everyday. 2 in morning, 3 in the evening or night.

4. Start visualising the PMI way

5. Read few additional books on Risk, Procurement, and Quality. I do not know about you or others but when I took the exam the bulk of the questions were on these three areas.

6. Bought the book Maths for PMP by Subramaniam (I hope the name is correct)

7. Bought PMPforsure and Rita. PMPforsure, I know, is early but essentially to set a benchmark. Apart from test 1 where I got 72%, I performed extremely bad on Test 2 and 3 with 58 and 65% respectively or Fail.

8. Reading HBR or Harvard Business Review and Reader's Digest.

9. Be regularly on PMZilla (thanks to my BB/BlackBerry).

10. Last but not the least, Positive thought and lots of hard work. I never go by when people say I cleared in 15 days, 1 month or so. One has to do his or her feasibility before deciding how much time does one need and read Saket Sir's posts v v carefully.

You work hard with the right inputs and believe me the result would be good.

From tomorrow, I am joining a study club (chaired by Brittann- a Zillian). You may also join us if you want.

Until then,

Warmly, KK....

Since you have failed the biggest challenge now becomes fear overcome. I see with all of my students. It’s bound to happen, we are all humans and get carried out by emotions and past memory.

I see you did the right study last time and took test from 2 good source. I am little different from majority of guide, I tell people spent 2-3 months time in reading books with slow pace, to me understanding/grasping is different from reading. Understanding is also as a result of progressive elaboration and it needs some time.

Secondly, I tell my students to explore options from various sources and not just the brand names. As per my knowledge over 1000 people in PMI are involved in framing PMP questions. When you have such big numbers, its bound to happen you will get PMP questions from various pattern, language, simple, tough, confusing, big, tricky etc. This is the strong reason I keep saying, explore options and try free questions from various sources, this will also help you to get different taste and variations. This activity takes around 30-40 days assuming you target 2000-3000 questions practice.

Lastly, use reference book to understand project management concepts, BUT use ONLY PMBOK to prepare for PMP questions. The PMI panels while framing PMP questions would keep with them PMBOK and only PMBOK. Read it multiple times and get used to its language, tone, sentences etc.

I am sure, this would help you the next time. All the best.

Saket, PMP
 

This is exactly what happened with me

 Before examination I did head first, Tesk King and actual tests which were mock up tests, but none of them worked at all, I constantly scored around 95% on each one of them.

I find ITTO quite difficult and couldn't memorize them all.

Need steps by step preparation suggestions on clearing the examination.