u/omipie7

I can’t believe I passed. And especially can’t believe I passed with AT in all four domains.

Like many others have said here, I felt like I was failing almost the whole time. I fully braced myself to see a disappointing screen when I finished the test but instead saw “congratulations.”

So much of the verbiage was unfamiliar to me and hurt my brain. I’m so curious how this test is scored and wish I could see a percentage grade.

I’d say most questions I was stuck on I could narrow it down to two possible answers, but I often felt I had no clue which was correct.

Other questions were straightforward and I felt confident about, but definitely not the majority.

Color me shocked.

What I Did to Study

I started at the end of February. Took the exam 3 months later.

I took Andrew Ramdayal’s CAPM prep course on UDemy. I took notes just to keep myself engaged but only referred back to my notes on EVM and critical path.

I did 1 hour of the course most work days (recommend at least 1.5x speed) and finished in mid April.

Then I studied for a month.

I used: Pocket Prep (paid for one month), Landini, and Claude

Pocket Prep had a preferred user interface for me. I’d do multiple quizzes a day and took one mock exam and scored 91%. I did only about 300 questions total out of 2000 possible, and they got progressively harder the further you got along. I really appreciated the explanations of the answers built right in and the little Tutor bot. Helpful for me to solidify concepts and learn terms, but the questions weren’t like the exam.

I used Landini less but tried to force myself to do it more closer to the exam because I found it harder and read in this sub that the questions are more similar to the exam. This is correct. The questions on the exam are phrased most similar to Landini but still not 1 to 1. I got a 75% on the Landini mock exam.
Whenever I’d get something wrong in Landini I’d plug it into Claude to help me learn and understand where I was wrong.

I’m indebted to this subreddit. If I hadn’t found it, I probably would’ve tried to take the exam cold after finishing AR’s course and would’ve surely failed. Most of my synthesizing came in the last week or two of my month of studying.

Happy to answer any questions I can and good luck to everyone with an exam coming up!

I’ll be visiting for the first time in June (expecting to die from heat) on a girl’s trip. We’re staying in the Quarter.

Where’s the best spot for shopping? Thinking women’s clothes and gift shops mostly.

If it’s Magazine St. what sections of it do you recommend?

TIA!