Hello all

Time to share the lessons learned from my end. I passed my PMP in the first try and got 4 - Proficient and 1 - moderately proficient.

The entire process of prepartion took me 3 months, i have gone through the PMBOK book from end to end 3 times and many number of times casually glancing over. I did not read any other book other than some notes here and there for org theories and stuff like that.

I did subscribe to Cornelius Fischners PM Prepcase for the 35 hours and the simulation exams with him. I was scoring an average of 85% on those exams
After my study I tried to over Rita Mulcahy but it confused me a lot. Lot of the details in the book made many assumptions, which was hard for me to understand so I stopped reading it.
I came across Kim Heldmans book and I was very impressed with his style of writing, however I did not complete it as I was running out of time.

I addressed as many sample questions as possible on the internet some of them did lead to confusion as they were old.

The exam itself turned out to be much easier than what I had imagined. The questions were very clear in what they were expecting, there were no inbuilt assumptions to be made. I finished answering all the questions in about two and a half hours and spent the rest of the time reviewing the answers
Overall it was a good experience as i have learnt a lot during this process.

Thanks a lot to this forum for helping me out with some of the concepts.