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TOPIC: My Story - Cleared my PMP exam in 1st Attempt
My Story - Cleared my PMP exam in 1st Attempt 10 years 4 months ago #4422
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Hi All,
I Cleared my PMP exam on first attempt in March 2014 . Initiation - MP Planning - P Executing - P M&C - MP Closing - MP The materials that i used were: 1. PM PrepCast Exam Simulator 2. Rita Mulcahy PMP Exam Prep 8th Edition 3. PMBOK Guide ( Literally read it 4 times) 4. PM Study Exam Simulator (5 tests including the free one) PMP Exam Simulator Results (Cornelius Fichtner) Exam 1 - 80.50% Exam 2 - 81.50% Exam 3 - 79% Exam 4 - 78.50% Exam 5 - 86% Exam 6 - 83% Exam 7 - 84.50% Exam 8 - 78.50% My Story I started studying some time during November 2013 because i was a little bit over cautious in my estimate of preparing for the exam. Although i did realized that 3 full months of dedicated preparation is enough for clearing the exam on first attempt. I joined the PMI and I submitted my application and got an email 3 days later to "Continue with my Application". My application was not audited.  I scheduled for my exam on the 31st of March 2014. One tip: Read the PMBoK thoroughly. Read it over and over again to get the concepts right. I read in a few blogs where they emphasize that you should mug up the ITTO's. But in my exam i just got 3-4 questions on ITTO's. So i would leave that on your judgement whether or not to have the ITTO's at your fingertips. On the test day, I got to the test center one hour early and I was allowed to start immediately. I made sure I answered each question as I progressed (selected an option even if I was not sure) and marked the ones I was not sure of. I had about 30 minutes left when I eventually went through all 200 questions. I started my review and I noticed I had marked 40 questions! This meant I had less than a minute to review each one. Although even during the review i found most of my answers to be correct. Then came the survey. I breezed through that and viola the word "Congratulation" came up on the screen. One word of advice - The answers aren't as straight forward as in exam simulators. Practice as many question as you can. You can only perfect this exam by practicing a lot of questions. Just google it and you will find a lot of resources. Although the PM Prepcast exam simulator did help me a lot. That's my story for the exam. Cheers..!! Nilesh |
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