I’m considering traveling to the Bahamas and I’m wondering if anyone has insights on all inclusive resorts offering vegan options?
I’m considering Warwick Paradise, but not sure yet!
Any insights are greatly appreciated!
Hi there! We're looking to travel to St. Lucia and book an all-inclusive vacation package.
Any resorts on the island that would offer vegan options?
Thanks for any insights!
I run a vegan afternoon tea account, so I’ll be checking out a few tea rooms while I’m in Calgary/Canmore/Banff over Labour Day (already have some leads there but open to more suggestions!!!). But I’ll have some off time too and want good vegan-friendly dinner spots to check out while I’m in the area.
Doesn’t have to be fully vegan, just somewhere with solid options. Any city in the Calgary/Canmore/Banff corridor works. Would love your favourites!
Just passed and wanted to do a brain dump while it’s fresh, since posts like this helped me a ton.
My background: I come from social services, not a traditional PM background, so a lot of this was learning a new language for me. The sector I work in is shifting to incorporate more business-minded principles, and I felt this credential was necessary to keep pace with that shift. So if you’re coming from a non-traditional background, know that it’s very doable, it just takes more translation work up front.
Timeline: Honestly, I’d been circling this since late 2024. Life kept interrupting: new jobs, part-time work, general bandwidth issues, so it was a lot of stopping and starting. The pressure of the upcoming exam change is what finally lit a fire under me. I studied intensively from April onward and originally had it scheduled for late June, but pushed it back about a week for more runway. No regrets there.
Mock exam scores: I did five full mock exams, ranging from 63-71%. Mini exams/practice questions ranged more widely, 60-100%, and I made a habit of resetting questions afterward to redo them and reinforce the learning. Honestly, the full mock exams were the single best tool for reinforcement, more than any content review.
What the actual exam looked like for me: No drag-and-drop questions, no graphs. Three equation-based questions total, and only one of those actually required doing a calculation.
Resources I used, and how I’d rate them:
David McLachlan — good for content building and filling knowledge gaps, but didn’t personally give me enough exam strategy to carry in with me.
Andrew Ramdayal — great for stress-testing your knowledge. His ultra-hard question sets were brutal (I was landing around 76% on those) but they exposed every gap I had, and he gives genuinely helpful exam tips while still teaching the material.
Mohammed Rahman — this is the one that resonated with me most, and I honestly think he deserves way more credit in the PMP space than he gets. His approach to identifying the actual problem statement within a question changed how I read every question after that. He also gave me the most useful exam-day strategies out of everyone I studied with.
Third Rock study guide — used more as a reference/summary tool alongside the others.
Gemini — whenever I got a practice question wrong, I’d feed it in and ask for a deeper breakdown of why the right answer was right and why my answer wasn’t. Great way to close gaps fast instead of just moving on.
Tips that actually mattered:
Learn to isolate the problem statement in each question. This was Mohammed’s framing and it was probably the single biggest shift in how I approached the exam.
Do the hardest practice questions you can find. Ramdayal’s sets will humble you, but that’s the point.
Don’t panic about mock scores in the 60s-70s. That’s a completely normal place to be sitting before exam day.
Reset and redo your practice questions. Repetition on the same question bank reinforces learning in a way that just moving forward doesn’t.
Use an AI tool to unpack wrong answers. Feeding wrong answers into Gemini for a detailed breakdown helped me actually understand my mistakes instead of just noting them.
Use more than one instructor. They each explain concepts differently, and having multiple angles is what made things click.
If you need to push your date back, push it back.
I wouldn’t call the exam “easy,” it was nerve-wracking going in, but the prep work meant I was able to rise to the occasion when it counted.
Happy to answer questions if anyone’s in the thick of studying right now! Thank you all here in the community for your support! TBH - my appearance here may be scarce going forward because I need a break from PMP content 😂
P.S. I remember a user named GreekBecky who is also doing the exam today! I hope you passed Becky!!! 😊
I have the exam booked for June 23rd and I’ve done three practice exams. Got 71 percent first, followed by 70 percent and then today, got 63 percent. Now I’m questioning if I’m ready for this. The exam changes in July and I’ve been studying intensively since April. Am I overreacting or am I in trouble?