I'm quite surprised I passed.

Don't get me wrong, I studied very, very hard for three months. But I did walk out of the testing room in a daze. It was harder than I thought. I didn't feel unprepared, just unconfident that I could do it.

My studying was 35 contact hours of a local PMI chapter course around Andy Crowe's work, Rita FastTrack 7, PMstudy tests 1-4, and, of course, the PMBOK Guide.

I was grading at 65%-70% on the PMstudy tests. In all other materials I was scoring approximately 80%. I'm not sure why the PMstudy tests really had my number.