Passed my PMP Exam today 02.06.2014 (1st attempt, 4P 1MP)
I was rather passive reader of PMZilla forum, however I want to thank everyone who shared her/his thoughts - ability to read all this posts was a great help to me. I hope I can repay with this LL.
First in January 2014 I scheduled my CAPM exam - today I think it was very good move from my part. I was afraid about this exam because English is not my first language (mother tongue). In fact - English is not even my business language (yes I communicate in my business work with several people in English, but there are simple orders or short e-mails). So I read twice PMBOK and Rita once and passed on 17.03.2014 my first PMI certification.
CAPM is knowlegde related exam - so I had to be familiar with 10 knowledge areas and terms from PMBOK and also gained experience how PMI exam look like.
Then I scheduled my PMI exam on 2nd June and started to read Rita again (in fact I read this book twice in April and May). I didn't read PMBOK anymode - two times before CAPM Exam was enough ;).
I also started doing mock exams - I tried to do 1 exam per day (at first 50-60 questions, last two weeks before PMP Exam I did several full 200 questions exams).
For statistics - my scores:
Olivier Lehmann 75Q - 68%
Olivier Lehmann 175Q - 71%
Christopher Scordo 1-11 - 82-89%
Christopher Scordo 12-15 - 80-84%
Christopher Scordo 16-18 - 69-73%
Head First Free 73% (in March 2014)
Rita 55-63% (in February)
Last week
Head First Free 200Q - 83%
PMStudy free 200Q - 85,14%
Rita (100-120 questions per day) - 80-89%
TechFAQ360 200Q - 87%
PMPForSure 100Q - 65%
I answered about 2500-2800 questions from a dozen sources. I think it is important not to rely on single source of questions - you can gain false assurance that you
know all the questions and answers (see my progress in Rita and Head First mock test).
A good advice for me was from Cornelius Fichtner (available on youtube) - "you are ready for exam when you can score 85% from any new mock test" (OK, for me, if you can score 75% on new mock test - you are ready).
Therefore I didn't try to improve my scores in (for example) Olivier Lehmann tests.
I think it is pointless - the most important thing is real PMP exam, not even best mock preparation test. But I tried to analyze every bad answer and every good answer I didn't 100% certain.
The day before exam I watched several youtube clips about areas I thought I didn't feel comfortable (quality - I recommend iZenBridge videos, risk, HR) and I tried to relax before big day.
Today my exam was at 12:30, so I went to Kraków (there are only 2 Prometric centers which can operate PMP Exams in Poland, CAPM exams can do many more test centers) and about noon I did check-in in test centre.
I knew from my CAPM exam all initial operations so I started exam almost immidiately. I didn't do any braindumping - I recognize myself as quite good at math so I really didn't have to wrote dozen easy (for me) formulas. Also all 47 processes didn't need for me to be dumped and also other stuff (like 7 Quality Tools). I rather tried to understand them than memorize.
After about 30 questions my thoughts were - well, when can I schedule my next exam?
but after 70 questions things started to be little less complicated, so I finished 200 questions in 200 minutes. Then I reviewed my marked (about 35) questions and 18
minutes before end I pressed "End Exam" button.
Afer quick (again I knew about it from my CAPM exam) questionnaire - there was looong 4-5 seconds of uncertainty and at last CONGRATULATIONS screen.
If I could do this - you can pass your PMP exam as well
Best of luck from Poland.
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Janusz Pawlinka


admin
Tue, 06/03/2014 - 06:04
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Congratulations and thanks
Congratulations and thanks for posting LL here.
sanjay077
Tue, 06/03/2014 - 12:54
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congrats..!
Congratulations..!!