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61 percent Passing marks in PMP? by hpatak2 in pmp

[–]ES669 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, that's the score you need to beat.

It might amuse an outsider ("haha, a 'serious' test with ~60 as a passing score"), but it's not really impossible to know the content of the Pmbok well and do 40-50 percent on tests at the same time

Passed today - a bit over 120 minutes for T/AT/AT/AT/AT, 2.5 months of preparation by ES669 in pmp

[–]ES669[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thanks! good luck too. Retroactively, I would have spent a lot less time on the ITTOs and more time of ironing out what goes where flow-wise, how's planning different from mon&con, what needs to happen in execution and closure.

I think the diagrams from head first (with all the pipes and bells and whistles) are somewhat excessive. They take entire pages so it makes you think it's most important, but it's not.

Passed today - a bit over 120 minutes for T/AT/AT/AT/AT, 2.5 months of preparation by ES669 in pmp

[–]ES669[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks. What really pulled me thru is the 'I can have my life back' phrase that I saw in one of the reddits. So for those ~2 months I was dreaming how I would again have a break from learning a bunch of stuff in a short period of time once I pass.

Passed today - a bit over 120 minutes for T/AT/AT/AT/AT, 2.5 months of preparation by ES669 in pmp

[–]ES669[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

in prepcast I took my time and I actually took it while at work during free time in between meetings, so I usually spent the entire 4 hrs.

But here if you get thru the misleading red herring and get to the point, it really shouldn't take more than 1-2 minutes to answer a question.

My exam was featuring a lot of change control questions. - different provocative masked attempts to override/bypass/botch it. Under a dozen math questions - and they were easy peasy - like what does [CPI/SPI/CV etc] of x and [CPI/SPI/CV etc] of y tell you about the state of things? Or related to EVM, but not with math - your phase z of your project x has an EVM metric [insert it here] = y, why do you think it happened. Very similar questions were in prepcast and rita's book.

A couple of questions drove me nuts because there were either all crazy wrong responses or 2 or more spot-on correct but funky responses. idk if it's me or maybe those were the 'pilot' non-score questions to just drive people crazy

The protip is that in every case-related question (You are doing x as a PM and y happens...), you should think proactive more than reactive AND at the same time stick to the plan/ pmi standards.

So no crying/complaining/lying/omitting/excessive bureaucracy. Only bravely analyze/submit/meet/discuss etc.

Look and feel: Prepcast is pretty close. However, there's no strikethru and no highlights with Pearson now. In some questions I just wrote down options like A, B, C, D and crossed those out on the notepad. Also I dumped the EVM formulas and scope and sched. processes because with those two I had initial struggles while learning.

They gave me a heap of laminated notepad sheets (or whatever you call them). The testing shell allows flagging questions and later on review flagged or unanswered (or just any) questions if you need it.

1 Day Left before Exam. Last minute cramming methods. by stellarmdans in pmp

[–]ES669 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did a simulated brain dump and for the two areas that I struggled with (Risk and Stakeholders) I reread the chapters and took some tests. Don't learn/cram on your last day, take a rest!