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Skipping Questions on Your PMP Exam
By Gabe Y
A commonly asked question when I teach my PMP exam prep course is “When I’m taking the PMP exam, can I skip the questions that I don’t know?”
Let’s take some of the guesswork out of that. You should never skip any question on the exam! That’s because you are not penalized for wrong answers (unlike the SAT exam you took way back in high school).
In the current version of the PMP exam, you have four choices for each of the 200 questions. If you know the answer for a question, choose an answer and move on. If you don’t know the answer, or at least not totally confident of the answer, choose an answer anyway and mark the question before moving on, which can be done by simply clicking the little checkbox in the corner of your screen.
You’ll have an opportunity to come back to all your marked questions later to review your choice. Throughout the rest of the exam, other questions may trigger your memory for the marked questions.
Just remember to choose what you feel is the best answer before moving on, just in case you don’t have time to get back to that question. You definitely don’t want to submit the exam with blank answers. Afterall, a 25% chance of getting a question correct is better than 0%, right?
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PMP Passing Score?
By Gabe Y
This is a question I get a lot…”What is the passing score for the PMP?”
The reason why there’s confusion is that different materials may have different answers Let me make it easy for you.
PMBOK 2000 (old version of exam) = 69%
PMBOK 3rd ed. (new version of exam) = 81%
PMBOK 3rd ed. (new version of exam after the first few months of release) = 61%
I remember telling my students a few years ago that they better apply for the PMP soon since you never know what you’re going to get in the new version. When the new version finally came out, 81% was the passing score. However, based on the candidates’ scores, PMI realized that people who should be passing weren’t passing! Rather than updating the entire exam, they lowered the passing score. The 61% was determined the appropriate passing score after reviewing several months of data.
However, prep books and other materials that were printed obviously were not updated. That’s why you may see varying passing scores.
In short (until PMI changes it again), you need 61% to pass.
Springhouse PMP Courses:
PMI Project Management Course (5 days)
Filed Under Project Management |
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