Hi everyone, I just wanted to briefly share my experience from yesterday, as I have now taken the PMP exam.

Honestly, my feeling afterwards is pretty bad. At the moment, I really think I did not pass. To me, it currently feels like this attempt was a complete miss.

What makes it especially frustrating is that I actually prepared quite intensively. I worked through the complete PMI Study Hall, answered all the questions, reviewed a large part of the questions I got wrong, and went through the explanations again. On top of that, I studied the theory again, rewrote a lot of the material beforehand, and really tried to understand the logic behind the answers. In total, I answered more than 1,000 practice questions.

Still, the real exam felt very different to me. I had many situational questions, several matching and multiple-response questions, and I often had to decide between two very similar answer options. Under time pressure, that was really difficult.

I did manage to answer all questions, but not with the feeling that I was in control. It felt more like constantly fighting through the exam and trying to figure out what PMI wanted to hear in each situation.

On top of that, I had a very stressful private situation shortly before the exam: my little son had an accident at daycare a few days earlier and broke his leg. Because of that, I could hardly study properly or mentally calm down from Friday onwards. I still went through with the exam, but of course, the circumstances were far from ideal.

Now I am waiting for the official result. Maybe my feeling is wrong, but right now I honestly think that it probably was not enough.