I took the exam today 10/10/11 and when I finished the screen flashed congratulation you passed. That culminates about 6 long months of preparation for me.

Initially I was supposed to take the exam on 8/29 and it seemed nature did not want me to take the test that day, Huricane Irene played spoil sport. I was given the option to take the exam a few days later in the old format in a PBT but I was disappointed by the let down and opted to take the CBT in the new format and re-scheduled for today instead.

For my first pmp test date I read PMBOK about 2 times and Rita's 6th edition once. For my next round I read PMBOK twice again and read Andy Crowe 4th edition. This time I came across Rajesh Nair's Notes which really helped me a lot I have converted the excel to a doc/PDF format which is easier to read and might post it some day.I studied Vidya Subramanian's book for the Math part there were some sample exams in the end.

As for as mock exams goes. I preped using all the excercises from Rita's book as well as Andy Crowes. I used the full practice test from Andy Crowe's book which i was able to score more than 80%

I tried PMStudy free exam 1 where scored in the 70's. I used examcentral free test twice and scored above 85% both the times. Attempted Head First exam twice. scored in the 80's.

After each test I made sure to review all the incorrect as well as the correct answers just to make sure I understood the concept.

For the exam today

There were about 40% one liners to 60% multi-line questions.For the first 20 questions I got a series of multi-lined questions in the begining which i was not sure and i just marked them for review later and did not want to get hung up on them. After that i felt calmed down and i was enjoying it. In the end there were about 25 mins left (I am not a very fast reader) for me to review and I tried to review as much as I could. I realized that learning the ITTO's well helped me a lots the questions mostly used the different ways to ask the same questions. I enjoyed all the math questions and breezed through them.

My scores are as follows

Initiation - Mod. proficient,

Planning - Proficient,

Execution-Proficient,

M&C- Mod prof, Closing - ModProf.

I thank all the people who have posted their Lessons learnt here before me as well as Wish all the PMP aspirants good luck.