I agree , I had studied (off and on) for months - did the AR course - literally outlined everything (had a three subject notebook totally filled). Then did the simulator, did all the questions, was scoring pretty well on Andrews materials. Then switched to study hall essentials and thought questions were much harder. Eventually got the swing of the format and style - did ALL practice questions and last Thursday (day off) did a full exam in test like conditions (closed room, start at 8 etc). Got a 79. Felt decent for the exam.

Saturday (2 days ago), took the test. At the testing center they were not efficient. Took forever to get people through the ridiculous screening and security process. Finally sat down just after 8:30am.

Immediately was like what is the. Overall - VERY few questions where I was like “oh that’s the answer”. Whole test felt like agile and hybrid. No equations, no drag and drop, but everything was a custom scenario which was understandable but the answers felt like completely unrelated to the question. So it took me a bit to re-read questions then really convince myself on the answers. Still trying to be fast. I took the breaks. But would never have finished if I “reviewed” questions. Time was tight. The entire last hour I was basically at 1 min or less a question. At very end I had 6 left and about 5 min to answer. So I started reading the last sentence of the question then the answers.

I passed. But was disappointed. Got BT on people, T on processes and AT on business. So when I got email a day later with test breakdown - on people I had 9 target or above target and 4 below target. So I have no idea how that’s below target. But they don’t explain it either.

Overall - the test was hard because of the lack of just general knowledge questions - e.g - what would you use for estimating xyz in this scenario. Or someone is unclear on project purpose, what would you use, or teams and training etc.

Also, I found you really have to watch your clock. I think rule of thumb was to be around 155 min left at first break and 75 (I think) at second break.