I feel you, John. I failed once, but only because I studied to pass and not to understand. Adopting PMP mindset is crucial, I would say. What I did after I failed on my first attempt? I did 35-hour course again, taking my personal notes at the same time. I ended up with 174 page document. It helped me to refresh my memory. I also watched a lot of Andrew's tutorials, such as: - 200 Ultra Hard PMP Questions 1-200 - Complete PMP Mindset 50 Principles and Questions - 100 PMP Drag and Drop Questions - 120 Agile PMI-ACP or PMP Questions 180-Question Mock Exam from Andrew's 35th PDU course (both exam and practice mode) is also super helpful. You can do it, don't give up! Let me/us know if you need anything else.

A few more advices: - Don't waste your time on a question you don't know. Move on, and come back to it later ("flag" a question). After all, you have just 1 minute and 15 seconds for each question. - Use both of your breaks to relax, strech your feet, and refresh. - For all 3 sections you have 270 minutes. It means that after the Part 1 you should have around 180 minutes remaining. Keep that on your mind. - Don't waste time on highlighting questions. I firlmy believe that's waste of precious time. - Pay attention to a certain words that are a red flag in answers. For example, always eliminate answers where PM requests or demand something, or if forces someone to do something. Never fire someone, argue, or ask someone to do the work instead of you. - PM almost always has to ASSESS, REVIEW, ANALYZE before he acts. - Before answering always try understand is a question about traditional (predictive/waterfall), agile (iterative), or hybrid project.

@Angela Lin Honestly, I failed on my first attempt. I was studying to pass, not to understand. That was a problem. Adopting the PMP mindset is crucial. All PMP questions are scenario based, situational questions. I don't want to discourage you, but this is a hard exam. It takes time to prepare it, a lot of practice, videos, mock exams.

@Angela Lin If your are commited and dedicated, if you follow Andrew's aporoach, you'll make it. There is no doubt. The exam itself was harder than I was expecting, to be honest. For each of 180 questions you have approximately 1min and 15sec. Time management is also crucial.

@Mila Arsic Milosevic Hi Mila, thanks for reaching out. Here are some major hints for you if you are preparing yourself to take this very demanding exam. Please bear in mind that all of them are developed based on Andrew's PMP mindset. Questions on the exam are situational questions, where you need to understand and adopt the CORE of the PMP mindset. For example, always choose the answer that supports ANALYZING, ASSESSING, REVIEWING first, and ACTING later. NEVER do the following (this is very important): 1. Escalate the situation to a senior management, project sponsor, CCB, etc. 2. Ask someone ELSE to do YOUR job. 3. Fire or punish someone. Communication is the key of success, and 90% of PM's work. 4. Don't DEMAND or REQUEST something violently. The answer that contains these words is almost never the right one! 5. Be always part of the solution, not part of the problem. 6. Do not bring INDIVIDUAL ISSUES of your team member in front of the WHOLE team. Group problems share with the team. Act as a facilitator and a leader. 7. Ask the team for an advice before your next step. After all, they know the best, they are professionals. 8. If there are conflicts methods on how to approach or complete a particular task, always choose the method that would deliver the most VALUE to the project outcome. 9. If there is an issue between team members always TALK to both sides so you can UNDERSTAND the problem between them. 10. Always distinguish questions where they ask you what to do NEXT (FIRST) from questions what a PM was supposed to do to PREVENT an issue/risk from happening. 11. Distinguish an ISSUE from a RISK. An issue is something that has already happened, while a risk (it can be positive or negative) is something that MAY or MAY NOT happen. 12. In Agile: leave to the team to act and organize on their own, you are JUST a SERVANT (remove impediments, create supporting environment, protect the team, "bread and water" approach). Leave to the Product Owner to PRIORITIZE the work and features.

@Mila Arsic Milosevic No problem at all, glad to help. Good luck, you can do it! Reach out here if you come across any kind of issue.

Highlighting words was a waste of time for me during my first attempt, and I failed. For each question you have 1 minute and 15 seconds to answer, be aware of that. That's barely enough to read the question and chose among 4 usually long answers. Time managment is crucial. With adopting the PMP mindset. If you don't know what to answer, flag that question, move on, and come back after you finish with the first section. After first set of questions (60) you should have around 180 minutes left, and after the second one (120) you should have around 90 mintues. I passed the exam after my second attempt, one week ago. Make sure you study to understand, not just to pass. This is very important. Good luck!

@Ana Wilt No problem, glad to help. Reach out if you come across any kind of issue during your study. Good luck, you can do it!

During the mock exam (both the practice and the exam mode) I made some notes with the most difficult questions. After that I went through those questions and answers a few more times in order to understand them. Hope this approach will help you.

One more thing. Don't study by heart, try to understand. That counts especially for processes and plans. Adopt PMP mindset, you have Andrew's video dedicated to this topic. Questions on the exam are situational questions, where you need to understand the core of the PMP mindset. For example, always choose the answer that support ANALYZING, ASSESSING, REVIEWING first, and ACTING later. Always THINK before you ACT. If you need more help regarding the PMP exam don't hesitate to reach out. I didn't have no one to help me, I passed from my 2nd attempt, and I know how much support matters.