Cleared PMP on Oct 1st
Submitted by karthik21 on Mon, 10/01/2012 - 17:13
Hello All
I cleared my PMP exam today. I have created a template on the information I would look for on a LL post.Sharing the same for your reference:
| S.No | Item description | Comment |
| 1 | Preparation time | May to Sep |
| 2 | Strategy | PMBOK and Rita . Read a chapter in PMBOK and followed it up with the same chapter in Rita Last week preparation was focused on Rajesh Nair notes. Just amazing !! |
| 3 | Mock scores | Olivers 175-67% pmstudy:71% pmstudy(paind exam3):75% pmpforsure:70% Certchamp demo:80% PMPrepcast-65% Examcentral=76% (Initiaon=85%,Plan=75%,Exec=80%, M&C=70%,Closing:63%) Skillsign: 64% PMTestonline=73% Edwel=65% preparepm.com(1)-83% passionatepm.com(100Q)-81% BetterPM=82% PMtrend(25)=76% Epmc=57% farndale-166/262(63%) pmzilla(200q)=116/200(58%) simlilearn 66.86% HP exam(24/30)=80% Skillport 200=76% (Initiaon=77%,Plan=67%,Exec=85%,M&C=86%,Closing:63%) Kim Heldman (exam 3) |
| 4 | Exam | Very much like Pmstudy/PMPforsure Completed 200 qns in 2:54 mins Marked 43 qns and reviewed them Completed review when 15 mins were left for 4 hrs cut off! Most qns from Scope/Time/Cost/HR/Risk After review , the magic words appeared Score: Proficient(Initiation, Planning) Moderately proficient(execution, M&C,closing) |
| 5 | Acknowledgement | KK, RD, Pawar Ji and Saket ande definitely every member who had posted in the Pmzilla forum(I made PMZilla my home page for the past 4 months!!) Our Virtual team of RD/KK myself worked perfectly well thus proving distance is not a roadblock to colloborate |
| 6 | Don’t forget | Read the glossaries in PMBOK without fail |
| 7 | What I would do differently I I need to prepare once again? | Read PMBOK in combination with Headfirst and once I am confident with the concepts, I would try Rita.HeadFirst will give you a head start to the PMP preparation |
| 8 | Overall Felling | An overwhelming feeling of acheivement.If somebody would ask me to do my Engineering and MBA all over again , I will trade that for the PMP exam :-) |
Thanks and Regards
Karthik PMP
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sspawar
Mon, 10/01/2012 - 23:10
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weldone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
weldone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! karthik
ye toh hona hi thhaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it has to be happened!!!!!!!!!!!
congrats!!
krantikumar50
Tue, 10/02/2012 - 01:02
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You Did It :)
Wow... Karthik you finally did it. Great and congrats.
I also agree with Respected Pawarji Sir that it was already known aka pre-ordained.
Enjoy :)
KK
mnair99
Tue, 10/02/2012 - 01:34
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congrats!
Congratulations !!
Can you tell which exam you found close to the real exam?
I'm not new to PMP, I've started my journey again.. am resuming my prep for the exam after my 1st attempt.
My 1st attempt was a tough one with loads of long questions, which took toll of my time in reading and answering in a timely manner.. will be good to know if any of our readers who've passed got similar kind of q's, to my surprise i had got a decent no. of questions (long questions) - was literally exhausted going through all the those big ones.. Lesson Learned.. prepare well and do as much as practice tests as possible.. its certainly not easy to over come such disappointments.. but i am back after a trip to try again!
Looking fwd to hear from u,
cheers!
karthik21
Tue, 10/02/2012 - 06:17
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Honestly there were hardly
Honestly there were hardly 10 qns max which exceeded 5 lines. All others were very straightforward
I really dont know whether the same kind of questions appear ffor all but i was able to move at the arte of 75 qns/hr which will give an indication on the effort spent in reading the questions.
Back to your original topic of the exam which looked close to the exam.. my take... pmstudy
Myself,KK and RD stuck a partnership and we purchased Pmstudy3 and we tried it between us.
I took this exam 1 week before the real exam and once I scopred 74% i was pretty confident
Sometimes when I saw LL post where people scored consisteltly around 80% i used to get nervous
But we if the focus is on clearing the exam , I really do not feel such high scores are needed as you can see my scored from my LL(i was scorong around 50% consistetnly till a month before the exam when I really tighetend the screws!!!)
So scores in the mock exam may not actually relect the original scnarios
Do take a printout of the glossary /PMI lexicon and read it /undersatnd it clearly
You exam ocuses more on what you do in a situation kind of questions.Needless to say, if you know what the trminology means, then you can be sure that only 1 of the 4 will be right answer
Hope this helps and do not hesitate to re post if you have any further questions
admin
Wed, 10/03/2012 - 04:38
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Reading your LL one thing is
Reading your LL one thing is clear that your prep was rock solid and you have scored well in all mock tests, so as Pawar said PMP to hona hi tha. ! :)
Congratulations from my side too.