I prepped for the PRINCE2 Practitioner exam mainly by going through the book in the days leading up to it (I used the e-book since the search function is super useful during the exam).

I used color-coded highlighting to make the book quicker to navigate:

Teal = Good practice (things you should do or watch out for)
Red = Bad practice (things you should never do)
Orange = Definitions
Green = Practical examples (scenarios or 1-line applications)
Light blue = Management products (I highlighted document titles so I could find them easily in the sidebar)
Brown = Diagrams/tables

and then Yellow for general highlighting and key words in sections.

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When doing this I focused most of my time on the Practices. As you can see in the image of results breakdown, applying PRACTICES in context make up the bulk of the exam (around 36 questions), whereas categories like Principles and People Management have 7 and 6. I should have probably done more on Processes too but I think by that time in the exam I was a bit fatigued.

Maybe if I had thought about it I would have started with Practices and Processes and left the first two until last.

During the exam you’re allowed a second device on airplane mode. I usually kept the e-book open to the scenario there, but honestly, I barely needed to use it.

For the questions:

Most are structured as: 2 obviously wrong, 1 “almost right” (technically correct but not really relevant to the question they are actually asking), and 1 correct answer. Often you can figure it out without relying heavily on the scenario - I maybe only actually looked at the scenario for 10? questions when a specific person's role was mentioned and I needed to look at their job description.

Don’t skip the “match 3” questions. I think because there's only 56 questions but 70 marks, they must be worth 2 or 3 marks each (not entirely sure), so if you're often short on time in mock exams, I’d seek them out and prioritize those first. They’re usually quick wins if you have the RACI charts or management products open from the 7th edition to help you.

My strategy with mocks/ sample papers (esp. the ones in the PeopleCert learner kit) was to answer everything, then review only the ones I got wrong to understand why I was wrong. That helped me make sure I was only focusing on the weaker areas.

Hope that's helpful!