AT/AT/AT
Hi y'all!
Took the test yesterday in-person and scored AT/AT/AT!
Very thankful for this subreddit for all the study and exam tips!
My study plan:
* AR Udemy course for the 35 hours (1.5-2x speed, as to me the studying comes after the actual course).
* Study Hall (Essentials): all practice questions, mini-exams, practice exam. Reviewed all wrong answers with Claude to determine patterns.
* Practice Questions: 72% (76% w/o expert)
* Mini-Exams: 78% (82% w/o expert)
* Practice Exam 1: 69% (77% w/o expert)
* Practice Exam 2: 74% (85% w/o expert)
* Easy: 99%, Moderate: 88%, Difficult: 62%, Expert: 25%
* Ricardo Vargas PMBOK 6 & 7 videos (honestly, do this before you start Study Hall, as it gives a way shorter and more effective breakdown of a lot of the concepts.
* DM matching videos, seeing how matching questions work was not that important, but there was a lot of good information on important terms and such.
* All the reddit posts about mindset were crucial, so many questions on the exam could be answered by: "gotta analyse first", "start by talking to the person that raises the issue", "never replace team members, invest in training and supporting the current ones" etc.
Study Hall was the best help, not because the questions are that similar as on the exam, but because it gives a good idea of how well you know the concepts. And the full length practice exams are nice to practice how exhausting a 4 hours exam is.
For the exam:
* I finished each question within a minute. If I could not, I picked my best guess and flagged the question.
* Used 80 minutes for part 1, 75 minutes for part 2, 75 minutes for part 3.
* Had ~20 minutes for review at the end of each section. It was great to have a chance to look at the question I flagged a second time, a lot of times that already made the answer clear.
* Finished exactly at 230 minutes.
* Every time I lost focused I closed my eyes for 5 m seconds, that really helped.
* Exam had one graph, one calculation, one drag and drop, about 4 pick 3 and a ton of pick 2 questions.
Took my breaks, put water in my face each time. Drank some water, are something, but didn't linger.
Hope this helps, ask me any question you have!