I Passed My Exam 😭
Sharing because a post similar to this helped me. I took Joseph Phillips course on udemy to get a full understanding of all the concepts listed in the PMI objectives. Going line by line in the objective and writing out everything I know about the topic and then finally I used Landini’s practice exam books to prepare 3 days before.
The practice exam book cost $5 on amazon (best $5 i ever spent) i was getting 64%-70% in a lot of the test categories which made me feel like I was severely unprepared. Landini’s practice exams seem a bit outdated and grammatically incorrect when it comes to schedule planning formulas like calculating early start his answers use Day 1 as 0 but Joseph Phillips teaches Day 1 as Day 1. I recommend going with Joseph Phillips method for your exam. The real exam has grammatical errors as well so this was great practice in slowing down and figuring out what is it they really want me to answer. I only took them all once because I was short on time. The practice exam taught me that knowing the topics is not enough. You have to be able to eliminate the obviously wrong answers and highlight the key words in the question that make the right answer stand out from the tricky answer.
While taking the exam I definitely didn’t feel good about how I was doing and at times I got frustrated and almost gave up, but I’m glad I didn’t because i passed Above target in 3 sections and on Target for 1 section. 2 of the targets i passed AT in were the same sections on the practice exam i kept getting a 64-66% in. I definitely recommend memorizing the formulas and jotting them down as soon as you get to the exam. I only ended up needing Schedule and Cost Variance for about 4-5 questions and thankfully no schedule planning float etc calculations. But your exam may be different.
Good luck yall!