just passed in my first try 20101112

I am happy that I just passed the PMP exam today with 4P2MP(in close and ethic). The exam is very straintforward and easy. I think I was overstudied. I prepared for 2.5 months and did a lot sample questions. I feel the most difficult here was to control the pressure because the exam eligibal time was going to be expired. I did feel heart beat a lot when exam finished and computer was calculating score. I acutally moved my exam day 1 week ahead as I didn't want to waste my time everyday to go many kind of books over and over. It was really hard for person like to achieve perfect.

The advice I can give here is you don't need study too much and try to get perfect. I didn't sleep well last night and got up in 3:30am - bad experience. Anyway I am very happy I can pass the exam in my first try!

Congratulations buddy !!! How good you were scoring in your sample tests ? My test is on next weekend.

oliver'175  76%

head first  83.5%

edwel   76%

pmstudy  75%

fasttrack  82%

andy's 93%

good luck!

Were you a PM before you started this journey? If not can you give me some tips on the Eligibilty req.:

"4,500 hours and the project dates must indicate that the candidate has at least three (3) years of project management experience within the six-year (6) period prior to the application?" 

Outside of a little over  year of PM duties over 6 year ago, I have no PM experience unless I'm ovethinking this here.  Your insight would be wonderful.

Thank you!