Hi everyone, I’d like to share my experience with preparing for and taking the PMP exam. I started with Andrew’s PMP course on Udemy, which I found quite helpful. But once I began reading his book, I realized it was much more helpful ☺️. I’d absolutely recommend focusing more on the book than the online course. I think I went through the book 5–8 times until I had everything memorized. I also answered all the questions in the book—not because they prepare you directly for the PMP exam, but because they help you check whether you’ve properly memorized the chapter content. When I started using PMI Study Hall and took my first mini test, I ran into a big issue: I was either wrong or unsure about almost every question. That’s when I realized I had memorized everything but hadn’t developed the right mindset. So I turned to Andrew’s video on the 200 PMI questions. I watched about 50 of them, and they gave me a lot of insight into how to approach the questions—especially how to eliminate options effectively. Then I went back to Study Hall and treated it as a learning tool rather than an evaluation. I didn’t take any full exams at that point because I wanted to save them for later. I strongly recommend using Copilot to help interpret the questions and answers—especially early on, when the explanations in Study Hall can be a bit hard to digest. After completing all the mini exams and reviewing them, I moved on to the full exams; you can see my scores in another post I made here. On exam days, I woke up at 8 a.m., started at 9 a.m., and tackled the questions in three sections with two 10-minute breaks. I even paid attention to what I ate and drank during the exam. I took the full exams with one or two days break in between. What helped me most on exam day was keeping things simple. Don’t overthink the questions—just read and go with the first answer that comes to mind. Yes, you might get some wrong, but it’s better than diving too deep and second-guessing everything, in my opinion. If you overanalyze, every option can start to look correct.

I know,, most people came here to share their successful stories. I want to share the real stories, maybe it will resonate with some people who are in the same shoes. I prepared the exam for two weeks. Although it’s a short period of time, I felt so ready. I finished simulator questions scored from 65 at first which was more intended for using the exam questions for study purpose, then started to increased to 73 then 80. I studied 200 extra hard questions and David’s 200 of Agile questions and other videos and materials. Before the exam I also reviewed AJ’s mindset materials etc. I felt ready! I planned to take it easy two days before exam, because I studied long hours on weekends, and stayed late to study after work on week days. But just in case, I studied more… that burned me out. I was not able to focus on the exam day. Questions were not difficult, but I struggled to stay focused to read questions and think straight. As result I got people AT, but rest two models didn’t meet the target. AJ has mentioned rest the day before exam. Listen to him. I can’t change what has happened, I’m mad at myself, and feeling down, but I’ll be okay. Anyone has any suggestions on how should I prepared the rest two modules (again) effectively and efficiently? TIA.

Hi Everyone, I am going to take my PMP exam on 1st of Sep. I was wondering to know how similar the questions in study hall of PMI are to the actual PMP exam? my scores on PMI study hall ful exams are 71-76-76-68-70% accuracy. Is it good enough? Regards, Moein.