The following items cover the various actions you can take while preparing for your exam. Some actions can be taken at any point during the preparations, others are for action a week before the exam, while yet others are to help you prepare a day or even the night before the exam.
Sometime before your exam day:
- Schedule one or, ideally, two days off from work to help you focus on the exam, not your job: one for the day before the exam, one for the exam day.
One week before your exam day:
- If your exam is at a test center, visit the test center to make sure you know exactly where it is located.
- Consider driving to the testing center around the same time as you would on the actual exam date. For example, if your exam is at 11 a.m. on a Friday, drive there the week before to arrive at the right time.
- Consider going into the testing center and asking about procedures, breaks, lockers, and other administrative aspects.
- Ask what you are allowed to bring and what you are not allowed to bring.
- Ask if they have this information available as a checklist that you can take home.
- Usually, it is not possible to “tour” the facility, but you can ask them if you can take a brief look into the testing room.
- Check if the test center offers any dry runs to reduce anxiety for test takers.
If your exam is online with a proctor, read through the Pearson VUE’s information page for PMI online test takers: https://home.pearsonvue.com/pmi/onvue
One day before the exam:
- Review your exam-taking strategies.
- Lay out all the items that you will need to bring with you tomorrow.
The night before the exam:
- Get a good night’s sleep. This is very important and success critical!
In the next lesson, you will find the Exam Day Checklist ...