How to prioritize your time to take the PMP® Exam?

How to prioritize your time to take the PMP® Exam?

It is always best to come to class with a PMP® Exam Goal. You can always adjust this goal once you are in training. If you are pre-approved to take the Exam you might want to take it within 7 days or less. Two weeks or less will give you time to study over a weekend and be less stressed out. And will also give you time to submit your experience and 35 hours of training. You should get PMI® Exam approval within 3 to 5 days. 2 % of people may be audited. If this happens and you work quickly to provide what they have asked, it may only cost you one week of your time. Remember, the shorter time you give yourself to take the Exam the more effort you need to give preparation for the Exam in class. Make every moment count. Study after class, and during lunch. If you decide you have too many gaps in your experience, reset your goal based upon what you have determined you need, in order to feel comfortable with all of the materials.

Avoiding Life's Pitfalls: The best way to avoid life's pitfalls is to get the Exam out of the way as quickly as you can. Once you are interrupted and you are no longer Exam-focused it is difficult to get on track again. Some people take the time to do the training, then let life get in their way. It is all important stuff of course, like a new job, a broken relationship, a lost job, a death or illness in the family. However, once life happens, and it cetainly takes time to adjust, try not to totally shelve the PMP® Exam.

You can keep your head into the Exam thing a little at a time. At SmartPath LLC we have laminated workflows and exercises, check lists and tools that make this easy. While sipping some coffee, notice one process and one output and study where the output goes, for example. Notice the tool and technique used. And think about it for a few days. Then when you are in a better place, you will find that it will not take you so much work to prepare yourself. You can also start reading the pmWorkbook backwards a few pages of a time.

Look at Workflow 12 here and there so you don't forget what you learned here.

Set yourself a new goal. Without a goal human beings often keep procrastinating. Set a new goal and rearrange your life to meet it.

Practice what you learned in class at work. This will re-enforce your knowledge. Teaching others on your team will also help you. It has been shown that people retain over 90% of what they teach.

Re-sit in class if necessary: At SmartPath LLC you can train for up to 6 months by resitting in class. (This does not include new materials if things have changed and you want these.) You can also retrain after 6 months for 65% of the current training price and this way you will get up to another 6 months of training. You will also get all of the new materials with your new six months of training.

SmartPath LLC offers best in class PMP® Certification Training with Exam Prep local to Bellevue, WA and Tysons Corner - McLean, VA and around the USA from time to time. You may also attend training via Live Video Conference. SmartPath LLC is a Global PMI® Registered Education Provider.