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9 months 3 weeks ago #31513

Elena Zelenevskaia

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Although I agree with Dominic and Harry, I would add that skipping a question just adds some additional stress during the exam. I mean, you are not just keeping in mind the amount of time for the remaining questions, but also that in the remaining time you need to allocate time to return to all the skipped questions.
9 months 3 weeks ago #31512

Harry Elston

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Dominic has it correct: 60 questions (can review) --> BREAK --> 60 questions (can review, but can't review first 60!)
9 months 3 weeks ago #31511

Dominic Hickey

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Hello Effiong,
If you're asking about the real PMP exam, it's not an "either or" situation. Although there is an important caveat.

You can always skip questions to be revisited later, whether you use the breaks or not. However, do remember that the exam questions are split up into three 60-question sections. Candidates are thus forced to seal off the first 60 questions before embarking on question number 61. In this way, you can only revisit the 60 questions in the section that you are currently working on. So, it's not like you have the possibility to finish off question number 180 and then go back and look at number 50 again, for example.

Do also bear in mind that not using the breaks provides zero extra time to answer questions. You simply finish the whole exam earlier than other people who started at the same time as you. In that context, I don't see any advantage to not making full use of the breaks.
9 months 3 weeks ago #31510

Effiong Nkanga

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If I continue the exam without a break, can I skip some questions to be revisited later?
1 year 6 months ago #30845

Dominic Hickey

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Hi Habib,
Is your question about the real PMP exam or the PrepCast Simulator? (They differ slightly on these points.)

If it's about the real PMP exam, you can only review the questions of the sixty-question section that you have just done, i.e. at the end of questions 1-60, at the end of 61-120, and at the end of 121-180. Note that you cannot go back and re-review a previous section's questions once you have confirmed that you are ready to move to the next section and/or confirmed that you have completed the exam having reviewed the last section.

Yes, an alert pops up at the appropriate time to remind you.

As for not wanting to take a break, I'm curious: why would you choose or want this?
You gain no extra time to answer questions by not taking the break and the sole advantage in cutting the breaks is to finish the exam earlier than the other candidates.
It is quite a demanding exam experience, in particular due to the time pressure. I haven't met anyone who hasn't appreciated having (just) ten minutes between the sections in which to take a moment away from the screen.
1 year 6 months ago #30844

Habib Gailan

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if I don't want to take a break and keep continue with exam, my question is when can I review unanswered /forgotten/ flagged questions? at the end of the exam?

is there any alert message pop up?

The bottom line here is I know there will be lengthy question which I need more time to answer them at the end of the exam!

thanks,

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