200 Questions in 4 hours

Submitted by KABANERJI on Tue, 10/07/2014 - 08:09

Hi,

I am preparing for my PMP Exam right now. I look forward to your opinions and suggestions about the speed of answering questions in the exam. 200 questions are to be solved in 4 hours. How hard pressed is it for speed of answering all the questions?

Many of the questions would be quite wordy, as per popular opinion. Also many questions would have the EXCEPT or NOT trick built in to them. I have been doing practice tests and speed seems OK. I would expect to be "on the toes" through the entire period of 4 hours. I have cleared the CAPM about five years back, I had about an hour to spare when I finished and walked out, but I realize CAPM is a much easier and quite different an examination.

Any opinions and suggestions are very welcome, it will help me decide how to mentally prepare better to take the PMP. Thanks to all who respond to this post, in advance! PM Zilla rocks!!!

KAB

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Ramesh235

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:09

Having taken the exam just yesterday, I would say not easy. I used to be confident at my speed of answering questions before preparing for PMP and even during the Practice exams. Questions in the real PMP exam will be different and wordy and sometimes not straight forward, so preparation is the key. Also plan to spend more time on complex and wordy questions and breeze through the straight forward questions. you would come across both wordy and single line questions. Key is is to answer the maximum number of correct answers.if you are confident that you would get the answer right, then there is no harm to spend more time on a particular question. Also Prepare the PMBOK concepts and how each of them relate. Also what happens in each of the scenarios and the role of a Project Manager according to PMI.

for me, I could complete 200 questions just 15 mins before 4 hours with close to 35 questions marked for review. In the 15 mins, I could go back and review only 15 questions. So make sure you mark your best guess even for questions you plan to mark, so that in case if you cannot come back, your initial answer would still be counted.

hope this helps!

KABANERJI

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:20

Congratulations to you! Thank you very much for the suggestions and information!

Wish you a very successful career ahead!!!

KAB

slashinv

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 07:07

Hi

when it comes to the mental preparations during exam, I would suggest - do a brain dump. write down the PG and KA chart, note down imp formulae etc or anything that you feel is helpful for you during exam.

This will put you into a groove and set up your mind for tackling the questions. I found doing brain dump very helpful as I had to travel a bit to reach to exam center.

reg exam questions, i would say be ready to face any type of question and at any sequence.questions will range from very obvious answer to tricky answers. Please read my exam experience at my blog below

http://sachinvehale.blogspot.in/2014/01/lessons-learned.html

KABANERJI

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 17:31

Thank you for your excellent response, Sachin! Your LL is really very enriching! Wish you the very best in your professional career ahead!!

KAB

alexmcduffie

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 21:54

Each person is unique but I find that people who finish the exam in 3 hrs 15 min range and go back to review the questions typically do well on the exam. Typically when you read and answer the question you know it or you do not. The math questions I typically suggest to save them all to the end. That way your mind can be math focused only. Different part of the brain is used for math.