Passed Prince2 Foundations 72% and Practitioner 81% few days after
Hello,
I wanted to share my experience. As per title, I passed both exams on people cert within a few days of each other. I did the ILX online courses for both and read the manual once the day before the exam. I didn't use any other resources. I've been managing public sector projects for a few years though, so I'm very familiar with the practical application, but less so with the vocabulary.
I found Foundations significantly harder because of the memorization. I did the course with a 1-2 hours per day over a couple of weeks, because it took a long time for my brain to memorise and absorb the terminologies. I did the practice exam on ilx a few times and scored between 65-81%.
For Practitioner, I also did the ILX course, but found it way easier to absorb and completed the course in a day. I did the 2 practice exams, which were the most useful study tool. Many "trick questions" that got me in the practice exams, I could recognize them them in the actual exam. I didn't study the book again, because it was still in my brain. I did one of the practice exams while doing the course, 1 section exam after each corresponding section course, then the full exam after course.
For Foundations, I think I could have done better by focusing not just on main concepts but also internalising the RACI and headers for different products a bit more.
For Practitioner, I found it very useful to do it so closely to Foundations, because the concepts and book layout were still in my head, so it was easy to look things up quickly. The timeframe for the exam was more than enough for me to look up most questions in the book. I used the e-book in the app, with no bookmarks or annotations. Sometimes the book gets stuck and loads for a while.
My overall verdict is that, possibly due to multiple years experience in using similar project management approaches, it was much easier than I expected. But I still learned a lot about how things should be done vs. how they are done.