After the Online PMP Exam Preparation: Taking the Exam

Your ultimate goal in engaging (and spending considerable amount of time and money) on an online PMP exam preparation course is in taking the PMP exam itself. Otherwise, you would have spent the hours and the more than $3,000 in vain.

If you are getting cold feet, your online PMP exam preparation review and work experience should give you the necessary confidence to follow through. But if you still have the jitters, then the following examination tips could help you overcome them.

Gear Up!

This is actually a no-brainer. You have studied long and hard before E-Day itself. On the eve of E-Day, you should get a good night's sleep and you should wake up refreshed. Your breakfast should be adequately nourishing but steer clear of gorging yourself. You have to perform your daily ablutions lest you find yourself in a smelly predicament.

Refresh Yourself

Before the clock starts ticking, you can ask for scrap paper. Only ask from the examiner lest you be accused of cheating early in the examination, which is a definite no-no. You can write down the formulas and the mnemonic aids you acquired during your online PMP exam preparation and readings of the PMBOK Guide.

You have to do these because formulas have a way of getting mixed up in your head, unless you are a math wizard. As to the mnemonic aids, the knowledge areas can be easily memorized by ISTCQHCRP but actually knowing which relates to what process can be mind-boggling. But that is what your online PMP exam preparation and readings of the PMBOK Guide are for!

Also, if you think of it as just another practice test for your online PMP exam preparation, then you will have lesser jitters.

Move On

The PMP examination has 200 questions that you must answer in four hours. You have a little over a minute for each question, including analysis and computations. As much as possible, you have to move on to the next question if you are unsure of the answer. Just mark it for review and come back to it later if you still have the time.

Your online PMP exam preparation test examinations should have a feature that provides for timed tests. This way, you will truly have practice pacing yourself.

Just always remember that time is of the essence. So, move on.

Answer Everything

Even if you have to guess (and you will guess at some point simply because the PMBOK Guide is no easy thing to completely memorize), just answer all the questions. You will not be deducted points for incorrect answers, so you might as well try. After all, luck can favor everybody.

Since this is a multiple type examination, there will be instances when all the answers look good and when all the answers look bad. Just answer them, anyway. If it is the former, then choose the best answer. If it is the latter, then choose the better answer. In a sense, you are choosing between the lesser of two evils.

Safe Assumptions

There are assumptions you can safely make, unless told otherwise, in the PMP examinations. For organizational problems, you can assume that it is a balanced matrix; for procurement problems, you can presume that you are the buyer; and you can assume that the sponsor is an external client.

Just do it!