Lessons Learned on my PMP Exam

[Karthik.S.P]

Dear All,

Baseline

I am a candidate who is working in projects but not in fulltime
project management. I am average in my studies. I was concentrating
with other stuffs like searching jobs, doing projects, caring family
parallely in my day to day activities when committed for the exam.

Result

I am sorry I failed to motivate you by telling my negative result on
PMP exam. But still I wanted to write the lessons learned w.r.t my
exam.

1. I have read all the concepts but not integrated it to achieve the
overall project management success.
2. I have not memorized the 42 process I/O's & tools & techniques
properly. Understanding only is not sufficient it requires good memory
also.
3. I have not practised with onine exams available which is more
important in managing the time in exam. 200 questions in 4 hours it is
not an easy matter having questions as paragraphs & essays.
4. I have skipped the first 15 minutes of time where it can be
utilized to write the formulas & other hints in the given rough sheet.
5. I was reading till the last one hour before exam which a project
management professional will not do. Trust in any one book & let it be
PMBOK first & others next.

Despite of individual technical, reasoning & logical thinking I assume
the above highlighted points will be helpful for someone like me.,

Money shouldn't be a big problem for anyone who is appearing for this
exam but the TIME. Reinvesting the time is not easy.
I wish you all good luck in your preparations & attaining the certification.

Regards,
Karthik.S.P