TOPIC: Passed 1st Attempt (30 days learned incl. Exam Simulator) - Lessons Learned

Dear community,

I just had my first attempt and passed the PMP.
In the following, I want to share my experience concerning the approach I had taken:

After finishing the "Prep Cast", submitting the application to PMI and getting the green light to apply for the exam; I scheduled an appointment for the exam and I made a 30 day learning plan.
The learning plan: 30 learning sessions over 30 days (first 23 of those were about 2hrs, then followed by 7 sessions about half day long).

How I had learned:
1) I had already read the PMBOK during the "Prep Cast" (for each topic I read related chapter PMBOK after finishing related "Prep Cast" material)

2) Short learning sessions:
For the 23 short learning sessions sessions, I used the book "PMP Exam Prep Simplified" from Andrew Ramdayal ;

> ]Each evening, I used to read related chapters thoroughly, then after finishing reading a chapter, I done related quiz with "exam like" questions for each chapter
> Questions which I answered wrongly, I tried to understand why and if needed I looked deeper in PMBOK) .
> After the first 13 short sessions, I had finished all chapters.
> From this time onward, I repeated reading this book "PMP Exam Prep Simplified" for the second time, but this time I done a quiz in "PMP Exam Simulator" (ca. 30 questions related to the chapter read).
> Same procedure, for wrongly answered questions, I tried to understand WHY.
> After finishing the 23 sessions, I had already read twice the "PMP Exam Prep Simplified"

3) Long learning sessions:

• Here I taken the full length exam "PMP Exam Simulator"(1 Exam/session)
  My score was between 80% - 85%
• 
  After this I took the real exam (finished last learning session on Wednesday and the real exam was on Friday)
  Exam done and passed
  
  What I can say, the real exam questions were very similar to those in the simulator
  Hope this experience help you....

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