Passed PRINCE2 foundation with 82%
Hello all,
I'm absolutely excited to share that I passed PRINCE2 foundation with 82% today. I am one of those viewers of daily posts in this group, sometimes I post or comment for someone's post. Today I want to write my journey with this. And thanks to the suggestions for my latest post asking for the revision.
First thing is first, the movement I decided I'm going to do this, I signed up for the provider (The knowledge academy) based on their reviews on various platforms. However, it was worst onboarding experience, login issues, even content and so on. So, I am basically just using the exam tokens from them and self-preparing for the test.
The Plan
As my company is sponsoring this, I was able to prepare besides my daily job during the work time. So, I was preparing for 45min-1 hour daily for almost 6 working weeks - 6 weeks * 5 working days * 1 hours/ day = 30 hours in total + additional 5-6 out of work hours for my confidence(mock tests) in the exam.
- The Preparation
I started to directly rely on the manual from the people-cert. Read at least 2-3 times each chapter. And referred to ChatGPT, Google and YouTube too for any doubts. I made my notes on management products (who prepares for whom and when-process/ activity) , performance targets/ aspects, practices, processes, principles, RACI of people for different activities in processes, Activities & actions table for different processes, more info on management approaches those in PID (what it does, who prepares, why, etc), some important definitions too, etc. (Sorry might not be able to share as I got it in the physical book)
- The Mock tests:
From the Reddit posts and my financial conditions made me to choose trusted institute (luckily I used only free version (just for 3days prior to my exam - but used extensively; planning to take 1 month subscription for practitioner though) as I found it to be a better option for self-evaluation(p.s. the platform is using previous version of PRINCE2 - so be careful if you are using). As I have now done the with exam, I can tell that the questions are little similar (as I've had set the questions to be expert level each time I'd done the mock test). However, the platform helped me in analysing my weak areas, and so I referred & revised them particularly. And built my confidence level better. Also, gone through the YouTube channel - this video specifically at least 2-3 times to test my answers accuracy. I heard about MPlaza many times, but it's really expensive for me.
- The 'D' Day of the exam:
I basically gone through the manual once again, referred back to my notes. Referred to my weak areas based on the tests I've done. I had light lunch 30 min prior to my exam. And tried to be peaceful 15min before the exam as I wanted to be calm, relaxed and composed for the exam. After the starting the exam, as I knew I got 75 minutes and 60 questions, I tried to answer 1st what all I can and flagged where I was doubtful(40-45min). Then, next 5-10 min answered/ flagged the unanswered questions, next visited twice the flagged questions only. Finally confidently ended the exam. Boom, I could see the results, and I'm happy with that. You can follow your own rules.
Prerequisites of the exam:
Prior to the exam when I was checking for the compatibility of my system & other needs for the exam. I realised my work system is not allowing the exam website, of course, I took help of our IT team. Then 1 more thing is that I needed my national ID, and I couldn't find it as I recently rearranged my room. Lucky me, the proctor allowed me for 5 min to check and come back again. Of course, I found it and showed it to the proctor. So, please make sure to have your original ID and compatibility test done. Also, make sure to follow your other guidelines with respect to exam and what the proctor tells.
Now, I need to go through the practitioner test. I hope I find better resources for this and come back to you guys, planing to do this next month as the concepts remain fresh now.
Please feel free to reach out if you got any questions.
p.s: This is just my learning journey only. I'm not asking to follow but sharing the experience that I had in return to the posts that I referred, saved and adopted in my learning. Thanks for reading.