How I Passed my PMP Exam in 2 weeks!! (2023 Study Guide)

hi good morning everyone I passed the PMP exam in two weeks here's exactly how I did it wanna share High past the PMP exam in two weeks with 35 hours of studying I'll break down the video into the following sections the resources I used my study plan my exam day experience and then my final Reflections all resources will be linked down in the description below so without further Ado let's dive right into it so to start things off I studied the PMP udemy course which gives you 35 pdus and that is a prerequisite in order for you to take the PMP exam you need to have the credit in order to get your application to pass I would highly recommend you to watch the videos 2x to 3x feed to quickly get through the material so that you can get familiarity next I watched Ricardo varus's pmbok flow and I thought this was a great video on how to internalize different process groups and make them flow in a logical way the video is one hour long would highly recommend you to watch it on 2x speed to quickly get through the content following that I used the PMP process mapping game it's a more fun game to really understand and test your knowledge on the process groups keep playing the game on a daily basis until you get over 90 percent as that would probably demonstrate your Mastery of the knowledge next I used ARS Tia simulator this was a great additional resource to really develop that pmbok mindset and to get more familiar with scenario based questions following that piece I used David McLaughlin's 200 agile questions on YouTube I thought this resource was super helpful to get more agile based scenario questions and last but not least drumroll the most helpful resource is the PMI practice exam no shock PMI created the actual exam so their practice guide would probably be the most representative I definitely found that to be the case I found that it had the most similar questions to those of the actual PMP exam so now let's dive into the study plan I study for the PMP exam in two weeks in total it took around 35 hours let's break down what I did on week one and week two during week one I studied for approximately 17 hours I started things off with a PMP udemy course to give me the 35peus and I watched the videos on 2x to 3x speed to be quite honest a lot of the content is too General and it's not specific enough for the PMP exam so don't feel obligated to take notes the entire time I finished the entire course in 13 hours and 15 minutes next I spent two hours in submitting my application to PMI for eligibility this is a step that you should not Skip and you should be very intentional with in order to take the PMP exam you must submit your application to PMI and it must be approved if you don't follow the PMI specific guidelines your application can get rejected the only reason I know this is because my application was rejected the first time because I did not take the guidelines into consideration after following the formatting descriptions that PMI provides you on their website I was able to get my application approved and we were rolling after submitting my application of PMI I then reviewed Ricardo varus's pmbok flow to really understand the process groups and to really get that flow down in a logical order would highly recommend you to watch the video on 2x speed it's one hour in duration and I spent one hour total watching it so I watched the video twice in 2x speed in order to test your knowledge from Ricardo vars video I would highly recommend you to play the PMP process mapping game this was a more fun way to study for the different process groups in total I think I played the game around seven times and including revisions and reviews I spent around 45 minutes so in total for week one that culminates to 17 hours so let's get into week two so for week two I spent 18 hours studying for the PMP exam I started things off with ARs Tia simulator which includes six practice exams to really Master the pmbok mindset each exam is 60 questions and you get 75 minutes in duration it took me around 45 minutes to complete each of those exams and I spent additional 45 minutes to review through all the questions and answers so in total for each exam I think on average I spent around one and a half hours so nine hours total for the exam simulator I will say the actual exam questions were a little bit more difficult and his exam simulator but the concepts and principles that I learned from those practice exams was really helpful still next I reviewed through David McLaughlin's 200 agile questions this is a YouTube video that David created that's over six hours in duration I did all 200 questions but that's probably a little bit extreme I've personally found it to be a great detailed explanation and was a great additional prep as it helped you focus on agile specific scenario based questions my recommendation is if you do go through those questions and you have the time definitely just fast forward to each question figure out an answer fast forward the answer choices and then repeat that process to quickly go through the video so in total for David's video I spent three hours studying to get through those 200 questions to the final resource again I took the PMI PMP practice exam this can be purchased on pmi's website and I believe it's 99 retail I happen to use a discount code at the time that I found on Reddit so I got it for free the practice exam includes 261 questions this practice exam is the most similar to the PMP exam and I personally thought the practice exam was harder than the actual exam it is the best representation of the exam like questions and that makes sense because PMI created it so I took the exam into two chunks around three and a half hours for the first 180 questions and then around one and a half hours for the remaining 81 questions so in total I spent five hours on the practice exam last but not least I then created a tracker for any exam questions that I got wrong on the PMI exam so for any questions that you may have missed or any concepts that you just don't under understand I wrote those down in a spreadsheet and then I kept track of those and studied those before the exam so in total I spent around an hour reviewing any terms and Concepts that I didn't quite understand so that finishes up week two bringing us to a total of 18 hours Let's jump right into the exam day so on the exam day I took the exam in person at a local Pearson venue I personally found it to be really helpful as this reduces the risk of technical issues and the staff are really nice and helpful the exam had 180 questions and you were given 230 minutes to complete it I ended up finishing the exam with 50 minutes to spare so used around 55 minutes for 60 questions and then five additional minutes to review any flag questions so the way the exam works is you have 60 Questions after you complete those you're given an optional 10 minute break and then that repeats until you've completed all 180 questions what highly advise you to take both of those optional breaks I use both of them to either grab a snack or to use the restroom and to stretch out a bit as the exam is really long and you can be be fatigued my strategy when taking the exam was I always read the question first then I read the passages and then I read the answer choices I found this to be super helpful as a lot of the questions have certain key words that can make or break an answer choice for example if a question has what should a project manager do first or next that can lead to a different answer Choice than what should a project manager do so by paying attention to these key phrases in the very beginning it helped train my brain to eliminate similar answer choices last but not least questions are tricky make sure you slow down and be confident and flag any questions for later review on my exam that I took in January of 2023 there were no formula calculations to do that being said I think everyone should know the general formulas like SPI CPI CV and SV as those ones come up oftentimes in scenario based questions post exam you receive your performance immediately that's when I realized that I had passed and all of my three sections were above Target I do want to emphasize that you should spend as much time as you need to really understand the process groups and to get the pmbot mindset these are two concepts that are tested in almost every question and while it's not verbatim you need to have good deep understanding of those two concepts in order to eliminate answer choices my focus that being said was to minimize the amount of time I need to study and to minimize the cost of the resources I used I know I sound exactly a project manager right now boring in terms of the resources I paid for the udemy course I believe you're able to use a discount code to get it under 14 I used ARS Tia simulator which was under 45 dollars and then for the actual PMI PMP exam I got that one for free but if you're not able to use the discount code which I've linked below it's 99 the PMP exam I believe which is 555 so with using those resources and other amazing resources on Reddit and YouTube which I've Consolidated in my study guide below they've definitely all been helpful in aiding me and allowed me to pass my exam and I do want to emphasize that what works for me and what has worked for others they may not work for you I hope this video was helpful in breaking down the entire process and remember all your hard work will pay off good luck you can do it foreign [Music]

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Length: 9min 26sec (566 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 06 2023