Your PMP Preparation Plan MUST Include Practice Exams
Student Success Story
Becoming familiar and confident in the types of exam questions, their format, and content, and what is considered a ‘best’ answer by using the PM Exam Simulator was the single most useful tool in my study plan.
Russell Keenan, PMP
Take advantage of practice PMP exams as frequently as possible. In fact, use a PMP Exam Simulator!
Evaluate your exam results, paying special attention to the questions you did not answer correctly and why the correct answers are correct. Getting your PMP certification is based on your ability to think and respond as a project manager, not how well you memorized project management “facts.”
Practice exams are used for much more than just answering “typical” questions, they are used to be completely prepared for taking the exam.
Ideally, a candidate will set aside a four-hour block of time (just like the actual exam) and work their way through the exam by either systematically answering the questions, or marking them for further consideration – repeating this process until the exam has been complete or the four-hour block of time has expired. Done in this way, the candidate gets to experience facsimiles of the exam experience so that when taking the actual exam, the candidate is comfortable with the testing situation, understands and is practiced at the pace necessary to answer the 180 questions in 230 minutes, and already has experience in dealing with the relatively random mix of questions types and topics – there is no substitute for this type of exam preparation.
Many successful PMP exam candidates have stated the PM Exam Simulator was one of the most valuable study tools they used in preparing for the PMP exam.
We already talked about the Simulator in the Lesson about the mandatory prep Materials and we provided our recommendations there, so if you want to go back there, just click on the Button:
