Need Advice on Exam Readiness

Hello everyone, newbieposting on the forums, but have been reading for months.  I am 2.5 weeks out from sitting for the PMP exam, and would appreciate advice on my readiness:

Heres where I am:

- I am a veteran of grueling Cert exams (CCNP/CISSP Etc), so have experience with the certification torture process.  

- Studying 3 hours a day for past 2.5 months, in past few weeks have pushed that up to 6-8 hours a days on weekends. Hopefully I will still be married after the exam !

- Went completely through Headfirst book Dec to get my feet wet, then went through a bootcamp in Nov, then went through those books twice (Jan). Went through RMC 8th twice (Jan-Feb), now going through PMBOK 5th and burning through thousands of practice exam questions.

Practice test scores:

Headfirst: (Average 92%) these were easiest so started here.

RMC Chapter tests Average 79%-80%

MeasureUp Test (Got free access by taking the Exam Prep bootcamp):  Averaging 85-86% on full length 200 question exams (they are middle-to-lower-hard in difficulty, but match VERY close to PMBOK.

Will be starting Fastrack This week, and also have purchased the PMZilla super difficult questions when i'm one week out. Will repost those average scores next week

Would appreciate any advice on my prep methods so far. What odd is that I prefer the long RMC questions to the short questions from other exams. I answer the short questions much to quickly and make stupid mistakes, the long questions force me to think and absorb prior to jumping to the answer button.

 

Bueller? 

Hi Danang,

looks like you are all set for the exam. Your mock test scores are pretty good.

I would suggest you take a good look at S Curve, communication channel calculation, project cost forcasting and HR managagement before you go for the exam. These are the topics from which I got most of the long questions.

 

Towards the end of your preparation, take a few tests on examcentral.net. That should refresh some of the basic PM concepts.

 

Attempt the short questions first and mark the long ones for revision. You will find a lot of straight forward short questions that you can quickly answer and move on. Dont get frustrated with the long questions. Be patient. Generally they are easy to answer.

 

I am sure you will pass the exam with a good score.

 

Satya

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Please take more mock tests from different sources.

I trust you've already passed your exam so this answer is for others wondering the same. You can never have too many practice questions! Try www.PMstudy.com's too. One plus there is the format, font, questions, etc, are all approved by and very complimentary to the real exam. For questions you can email me at sandra.s@PMstudy.com.