Passed T/AT/AT!

Hey everyone! Just got my results this afternoon and wanted to share since this community was such a big resource!

Scored T/AT/AT.

Contrary to what you usually see on here my I found my exam easier than the SH and Simulators I did.

I did Andrew's Udemy course which I highly reccommend even if you're just looking to brush up on your knowledge base. Did a ton of question from Study Hall Essentials, skillcertpro, David Mclachlan's question videos, AR's question videos and daily LinkedIn PMP questions.

AR and MR's (https://www.reddit.com/r/pmp/comments/1iv2in2/23\_pmp\_mindset\_principles\_by\_mr\_mohammed\_rahman/) Mindset videos were very useful and important on my journey and really helped me narrow down 30-40 questions on the exam. Also used the PMP app (available on iOS, no Idea if it's available on android) to practice during daily commutes or lunch breaks.

My main way of studying was: doing practice tests/questions and then listing every question I had Low confidence on and every question I had High confidence and got wrong and I'd place it on a resource list to review that Knowledge Area. Chat GPT was great to aggregate the knowledge areas when I had 20-30 questions to review.

Had a lot of anxiety on the process domain as my memory has always been terrible, so I did the Process mini game until I going insane (https://pmaspirant.com/project-management-process-group-and-knowledge-area-mapping-game), and... I got 0 "name the process questions lol.

Had no formula questions, but a few question were I had to understand the numbers like SPI is 1.2 CPI is 0.1 what should you do for x.

My main tip would be to thoroughly read the problem statement and the answers, and always consider WHAT they want you to do, and always read the questions thoroughly because I had a few where I had 1 or 2 questions where both answers were correct until one of them had an "and" in the end of it.

Pay attention to what is being asked on the question I had about 3 to 5 questions that had huge instructions with lots of Data and Acronyms and in the end the question was: How do you keep the stakeholder engaged? So everything else was irrelevant and only there to make you consider the wrong options.

During the test use the tools that PearsonVUE gives you. Flag questions where you have 2 alternatives left, and review them in the end.

Highlight keywords (first, agile, predictive, sprint, scrum, etc).

And one thing I did that was super useful was strikethrough any answer I was 100% sure was wrong like the "Escalate to sponsor because someone was an ass in a meeting" kind of answers, I'd then select the answer I thought was correct and if there was one other alternative that I was unsure of I'd leave it be and when I finished reviewing the Flagged questions I did a quick reread of all questions to see if I missed any words on the possible alternatives or had a different understanding on the question with fresh (to the question) eyes.

Apart from that use this community and practice questions as much as possible but don't be focused on their % use them as learning methods and not milestone markers. My SH performance was 67% on the practice questions and 77% on the Mock Exams.

Do the Mock Exam like if it was the real deal. Do 60 questions, take a 10 min break, 60 questions, 10 min break and then 60 questions, it will really help you get a feel on if you're spending too much time on questions or not. I finished the test with 10 minutes left (with my review system that took about 5 extra minutes per phase).

I think that's all I can think about adding to you guys' journeys!

Feel free to ask any questions and I'd be glad to help you out wherever I can!