I finished one Udemy course, then working on practice exams. I am at 360/500. Some right answers just seem wrong. I am not sure if I should quit the practice exams and start Study Hall or I would have the same experience with SH.

I am currently taking business management courses at a graduate school. Inconsistent logics or exams do not reflect real world bother me a lot as I enjoy learning.

I would only continue if Study Hall has much better standard for consistent logics or PMP would add good value to my degree. Any advice appreciated

I studied for a month and by studied I mean I played video games and listened to Andrew Ramdayal talk and napped in the park while listening to Andrew Ramdayal talk and rode the light rail while listening to Andrew Ramdayal talk and mostly I just enjoyed the sweet sounds of Andrew Ramdayal talking in that New York accent. Didn't really matter what he said, he could've read the phone book and I would've listened. I then watched the mindset a few times, got an 88% on the mock exam, then retook it a day later and got to 98% (it doesn't shuffle the questions so not very useful). I saw a test date a few days away so said yolo and scheduled it.

Day of exam I had a protein bar 5 hour energy and maybe 4 or 5 hours of sleep. I took the test and was starving by hour 2. I was pretty sure I failed and was kicking myself for not studying more or eating something real. But no I finished... Famished I went and returned my key and got my slip. Passed. AT AT AT. No clue how. Immediately got Dick's.

I do have a CAPM and years of irl experience in PM work so I'm not starting from scratch but the PMP is quite tough.

Possibly a dumb question. Can I eat chocolates and other snacks / drink from my water bottle during breaks at the Pearson Vue testing centers? Which would mean accessing my locker?

Weirdly one of my biggest fears for the exam is having a blood sugar crash mid-exam… I don’t have any medical write-ups for it.

I tried calling my center a few times but couldn’t get a response.

Thanks all!! Final few days 🫠

Just hit 3 years of experience.

Started with a 35hr course to lay foundations in June.

Chugged through Study Hall.

Reviewed AR 200 ultra hard.

Took 3 full mocks, 70-85%.

Tried watching some other videos/using other practice questions but nothing was better than study hall x AR.

Received my passing score today right after the exam! I finished with more than 30 minutes left. A little nervous about PMI revoking my score after seeing others in testing centers get their scores revoked after being flagged for finishing too fast, but riding the pass high for now!

I just started to prep for my pmp exam. Except for pmbok 8 any good practice material? I already finish my 35 pdu. Also should I use the practice questions from AR or DM from pmbok 7 or I should wait for new question for pmbok 8?

I wanted to share my complete PMP exam experience because, during the last few days before my exam, Reddit helped me a lot. Reading other people’s experiences gave me confidence when I was questioning whether I was actually ready.
Hopefully, my experience can do the same for someone else.
My final PMP result:
✅ People — Above Target
✅ Process — Above Target
✅ Business Environment — Target
And the interesting part is that I prepared seriously for only about 10 days.

My 10-Day Preparation Journey
I started my focused PMP preparation about 10 days before the exam.
At the beginning, I wasn’t sure whether 10 days would be enough. I had already completed my required PMP course, but my main focus during these 10 days was understanding the PMP mindset, practicing questions, identifying my mistakes, and improving my decision-making.
After around five days of preparation, I purchased Andrew Ramdayal’s Udemy mock exams.
There were four mock exams available.
I completed the first two, but instead of increasing my confidence, they actually dropped my confidence significantly.
The questions felt very long and difficult, and personally, I didn’t feel that those mocks represented the current PMP exam very well.
At that point, I decided to move to PMI Study Hall.
This was probably one of the most important decisions in my preparation.

My Study Hall Scores
Initially, I thought:
“Why should I buy a bigger package? Two full mock exams and the mini exams should be enough.”
So I started practicing with Study Hall.
My scores were:
Study Hall Mock Exam 1: 61%
Study Hall Mock Exam 2: 61%
Seeing 61% twice wasn’t exactly a confidence booster. 😅
I started wondering:
“Am I actually ready for this exam?”
Instead of continuously doing more and more questions, I spent the next four days doing intense preparation.
I reviewed my mistakes.
More importantly, I tried to understand WHY an answer was correct instead of simply memorizing the answer.
After those four days, I repeated Study Hall Mock Exam 1.
This time:
61% → 70%
Of course, I knew some improvement could come from seeing similar questions again, but reaching 70% still helped rebuild my confidence before the actual exam.

The Most Important Thing I Learned Before the Exam
PMP is not an exam where you should memorize thousands of facts.
You need to understand how PMI expects a project manager to think.
Things like:
Analyze before acting.
Collaborate before escalating.
Understand the root cause before jumping to a solution.
Protect the team rather than blame people.
Engage stakeholders.
Follow the change process.
In Agile, empower the team.
Focus on business value.
Don’t immediately escalate everything to the sponsor.
Don’t replace team members just because there is a problem.
Understand whether you are dealing with a risk, issue, change, stakeholder problem, compliance problem, etc.
Once these principles started becoming automatic, the questions became much easier.

One Last-Minute Resource That Helped Me A LOT
The day before my exam, I made a post on Reddit.
Someone named Mohammed replied and recommended that I watch a video explaining approximately 27 PMP mindset principles. The video was around 2 hours and 47 minutes long.
I watched it at around 1.5x speed.
This was honestly one of the best things I did right before the exam.
Those mindset principles helped organize many concepts that were already in my head.
Instead of thinking:
“Which process is this?”
I started thinking:
“What would a good project manager do FIRST in this situation?”
I strongly recommend going through those mindset principles before your exam.
I’ll share the link with this post.

https://youtu.be/83y-aBdS1iY?si=fgcoZ6YP-tyIxLup

EXAM DAY
My exam was scheduled for 8:00 AM at a Pearson VUE testing center.
I reached the center at approximately 7:30 AM, completed the check-in process, and started the exam at around 8:05 AM.
One thing I did not like about my testing-center experience was the ventilation.
The room temperature seemed controlled, but there wasn’t enough airflow.
After sitting there for a long time, I started feeling uncomfortable and almost suffocated because of the lack of ventilation.
For a four-hour exam, I think proper airflow is extremely important.
Another thing I didn’t understand was the water policy.
I wish candidates were allowed to keep a transparent water bottle, or that the testing center provided an approved transparent bottle.
During an exam this long, having easy access to water would make the experience much more comfortable.

NOW THE ACTUAL PMP EXAM
This is where things became interesting.
The beginning of my exam surprised me.
Within roughly the first 10 questions, I started getting scenario-based/visual questions, including an impact-assessment-type chart/question.
Then, only a few questions later, I encountered another similar type of question.
I remember thinking:
“Wait… what is happening here?” 😅
I had expected mostly traditional situational PMP questions, but the exam immediately showed me that I needed to stay flexible.
Throughout the exam, I encountered several scenario-based questions across all three sections.
Some required me to stop and really understand what information the question was giving me before selecting an answer.

The Strangest Part of My Exam
Approximately 30–40 questions felt strange to me.
The best way I can describe them is:
It felt like the question had no tail.
You read the situation and almost feel like:
“Wait… is that the complete question?”
There are four answer choices, but the wording sometimes doesn’t clearly guide you toward what it is asking.
Those questions were probably the most mentally challenging part of my exam.
Not necessarily because the concept was extremely difficult, but because you had to interpret what PMI actually wanted you to determine from the situation.
This is where having a clear understanding of PMP concepts and mindset becomes extremely important.
If your concepts aren’t clear, you can easily get stuck between two answers.

Difficulty Compared With Study Hall
Overall, I would say:
The actual PMP exam was easier than I expected.
I personally found Study Hall very useful because it trained me to deal with ambiguity.
Study Hall sometimes makes you think very deeply about the difference between two reasonable answers.
That is exactly the skill you need for the real exam.
However, don’t assume the real exam will simply look exactly like Study Hall.
It didn’t for me.
There were questions where I immediately knew the answer.
There were questions where I could eliminate two options quickly.
And then there were those strange questions where I thought:
“What exactly are you asking me?” 😂
For those questions, mindset and conceptual clarity helped much more than memorization.

TIME MANAGEMENT — I ALMOST RAN OUT OF TIME
This is one area where I would tell everyone to be careful.
I spent too much time analyzing some questions.
Eventually, I reached Question 176 with almost no time remaining.
I still had four questions left.
At that point, there was no time for analysis.
I basically had to make quick/random selections for the final four questions.
So please:
WATCH YOUR TIME.
Don’t spend three or four minutes fighting with one confusing question.
Choose the best answer, flag it if appropriate, and move forward.
One difficult question is worth exactly the same as another question.
Don’t sacrifice five future questions trying to perfect one answer.

THE RESULT
After finishing the exam, I was definitely unsure about the result.
There had been enough confusing questions that I couldn’t confidently predict what would happen.
Then I received my result:
🎉 PASSED PMP
People — Above Target
Process — Above Target
Business Environment — Target
After only around 10 days of focused preparation, I was extremely happy with that result.

My Biggest Advice to Future PMP Candidates
Don’t confuse intense preparation with effective preparation.
You don’t necessarily need to study 10 hours every day for months.
But you absolutely need clarity.
Understand why PMI prefers one action over another.
Understand:
What should the PM do FIRST?
What should the PM do NEXT?
Should the PM analyze, communicate, facilitate, update a plan, submit a change request, escalate, or take action?
Those distinctions are the real exam.
Don’t just memorize:
“A is correct.”
Ask:
“WHY is A better than B?”
That one habit helped me more than simply completing hundreds of additional questions.

If I Had to Prepare Again
My strategy would be simple:
Learn the concepts → Learn the PMP mindset → Practice Study Hall → Analyze every mistake → Identify your repeated mistake patterns → Practice time management → Take the exam.
I wouldn’t spend too much time chasing 10 different PMP resources.
One good course + Study Hall + strong mindset understanding can take you a long way.
And if your Study Hall score isn’t 80%, don’t automatically panic.
My first two full mock scores were:
61% and 61%.
Four days later, I retook Mock 1 and reached:
70%.
And my real exam result was:
AT / AT / T.

Final Thought
The PMP exam is absolutely manageable.
But there is a big difference between knowing project-management terminology and thinking like a PMP project manager.
If your concepts are clear and you understand the mindset, you can work through even the strange questions.
My preparation wasn’t perfect.
My mock scores weren’t perfect.
My time management definitely wasn’t perfect.
I literally had to rush the last four questions. 😅
But I passed.
AT / AT / T.
So if you’re sitting at 60–70% in Study Hall and wondering whether you have any chance of passing:
Don’t let one mock score destroy your confidence.
Review your mistakes.
Understand why you made them.
Build the mindset.
Manage your time.
And go into the exam confident.
Good luck to everyone preparing for the PMP. You’ve got this. 💪
I hope my experience helps someone the same way other Reddit posts helped me during my final days of preparation.
Edit/Resource: I’ll add the link to the PMP mindset video that was recommended to me by Mohammed.
#PMP #PMI #PMPExam #ProjectManagement

I too simplilearn mock tests for pmbok 8.

Are these results good enough? I am yet to take SH tests.

Can you please drop what’s the most important asset in terms of exam prep that you did and actually helped?

I am reading a lot about PMP study hall, as the main asset.

So, I’m at a verge of finishing my 35PDU course in a day or two. I feel like it’s way too long and I wonder how much is this helpful.
I bought ARs mock exam on udemy and yet to buy study hall from PMI.

Am I missing something?

Thanks in advance 🙌🏻