My turn has finally come! I praise God 🙌🏽 I sat for the exam yesterday at Pearson (sooner than I had initially planned) and received my official score tonight! I am extremely grateful to have this community to share my big news on top of my network because you all know all the effort that goes into this. Finding Andrew saved me from staying in a dark place after I missed my first attempt in December and found this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkQH0ehAi10. For all who might be in these shoes, or just dreading to even go for it, shake off the fear! My journey is quite unusual because I have anxiety issues with mock exams in general so I did not use the simulator. I just considered my first attempt as a very expensive yet the most accurate practice test (as Andrew mentioned in his video) made sure to restart my study process totally with the 35h course and focused on the mindset. The day before the exam, I made sure to rewatch all the mindset videos last. On Exam day, besides writing down the formulas in case I needed them ( I did not) I made sure to note a thourough breakdown of the timing I wanted to follow for every 30 questions (building from the tips in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DmcHTkxJYw&t=349s) so I could make sure to have time under control and reduce my stress. I finished with 10 minutes left on the clock and used some to review flagged questions. Overall, the exam was challenging but it felt great to be able to answer many of the questions in a breeze thanks to the mindset! I've been celebrating since yesterday after the provisional report and even more so now that I have the official badge and certificate and OMG 3AT feels AWESOME !!!

Happy to share that I have passed the PMP certification exam yesterday on the first attempt! Here's a summary of my experience taking the exam: Agile approach based questions were comparatively more than traditional ones. I prepared a lot for the EVM formulas but I got only one question but that too didn't require me to calculate anything. Things that worked for me - Andrew's 35 hours Udemy course, PMP exam prep simplified and TIA simulator exams. I also referred other YouTube videos to have additional practice on scenario-based questions and tricks to understand the 49 processes. The key is to logically grasp what process follows which one under what process group and knowledge area. If you are taking up your PMP exam soon, you got this! Just do a FOCUSED study a few hours daily/consistently. *Important* Time yourself correctly and as often as possible while taking the test by monitoring the time counter on the top right of your screen. I answered the easy questions very quickly, flagged those where I thought there may be two equally good answers to be reviewed later (and for those couple of questions where I wasn't sure what the answer was - I made sure I selected one option) and continued to move ahead. This allowed me to have enough time at the end of each section to review and address all my flagged questions. These steps helped me stay on time through each section of the exam. Happy to answer any questions that anyone has :-)

If anyone is setting up a study group, I would be happy to join and share my knowledge with the group. Please note that I am unavailable on Thursdays and Fridays as I chair another study group during those days. Thank you.

Got my PMP last week and just got my ACP(20 minutes ago 😀🙈), thank you Andrew . Mindset is key and Andrew’s material is sufficient

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