Passed PMP today
Hi All
Today I sat and passed the exam. 4 Profficents and 1 Mostly Profficent (Closing).
To sum it iall up if you do a lot of study and lots of practice exams you will be fine. All up I estimate I probably put in about 100 hours over about 3 months.
Dont get caught up too much on the results you get in the practice exams. I did Oliver Lehman 175 questions 4 days out from the exam and only scored 125 when it is reccomended you get 131. Similarly I did a lot of practice (about 20 hours totoa) on pm-exam-simulator and only scored as high as 74% on practice exams (which according to pm-exam-simulator.com is a fail).
I would personally recomend the pm-exam-simulator.com. Yes it about $80 from memory but the questions are good and it is a good way to track which areas you need to go back and pay more attention to. Also the explinations to the answers are very straightforward. I do remember getting a bit frustrated with some of the random free exams you find online which seem to have outdated Q&A or answers that are not translated in to English that well and dont seem to make sense.
If you read Rita and PMBOK a couple of times and are comfortable with the concepts you should be fine.
Good Luck to all those currently studying.
Amy
Vishwanath
Tue, 10/16/2012 - 06:54
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Congrats
Congrats and thanks for sharing the LL.
All the best for your career.
Can you kindly express how did you feel the exam to be? Was it easy or tough? Can you kindly suggest few tips to concentrate on.
Regards,
Vishwanath
Amy_Hitch
Tue, 10/16/2012 - 07:02
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I found the first 30
I found the first 30 questions (especially the first 3) quite tough and a bit unfamiliar. Next 70 were very straight forward and felt like I had answered them before in test questions. I had a break at 100 questions and a quick snack. Next 80 questions were again pretty straight forward with the odd question that threw me a bit but I did my best not to get rattled and carried on. The last 20 questions I was pretty much over it by then as it is pretty exhausting.
I had marked about 20 questions and almost made it through all of them again before the time ran out. I definatly used the whole 4 hours reading each question about 2-3 times before even looking at the answers. From my practice exams I knew that when I made mistakes it was from rushing and not reading the questions properly.
Good Luck
Vishwanath
Tue, 10/16/2012 - 07:16
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Thanks for the Reply
Thanks for the reply. Can you kindly share your study plan for the preparation of PMP plz.
Regards,
Vishwanath