I passed my PMP exam today at my first attempt. I'm still not able to belive I've done it!! It was a 3 month hard work with daily effort of 7-8 hours!!

Thanks to PMZilla which has been a source of great information to me. Now it would be my chance to help others.

I would strongly suggest to go through the PMBOK guide word by word as many questions are direct based on definitions and ITTOs. This would help you to solve a good no. of non-situational questions in less time and would give you more time to analyze on situational questions.

When I started the exam, the questions initially seemed tough to me (may be I was nervous) but I answered and marked those questions to be analyzed later. As soon as I got into the flow, I was able to solve good amount of direct/non-situational (including numericals) questions, without being marked, for which I was sure and shot. This gave me confidence. And after 2.5 hours, I was done with 114/200 sure and shot questions.

Another 60 minutes went for second round, to analyze remaining 86 confusing questions (for few questions out of 86 in first round, I was 90% damn sure I did it right, but marked them to review in second round). After second round, more confusing questions were still left marked (around 40).

Last 15-20 minutes went for 3rd round which could not be completed, as time ran out. But finally, I was glad to see "Congratulations" on my screen after sitting for exam for continuously 4 hours without any break.

My suggestions:

1) Read PMBOK guide thoroughly atleast twice

2) Rita Mulcahy (read 3 times to clear the concepts). Questions at the end of each exercise are very useful.

3) Solve as many sample questions as you can from all the sites possible and the links provided in PMZilla (I Went for all free and demo exams!). Though some sites do not have quality questions/authentic answers but searching for authentic answers in books again would help you to memorize. Although, there are many good links with good quality questions. Few of which I recommend are

-EPMC

-Exam Central

-Oliver Lehmann (both 175 and 75 questions)

-Headfirst

-Fradricks

4) Going through PMZilla discussion forum is useful. These may provide good analysis of questions and many undiscovered links.

I hope my above experience would be of help to you. In case of any other query, please feel free to revert.