I’ve just sat my exam and it’s a strange coincidence as I think we were given the exact same questions! It’s a bloody tough exam and I feel extremely drained from it. I managed to get an answer down for all the questions (albeit leaving 1 part A and another part B unfinished). Hopefully I’ve done enough to pass, if I haven’t then I think I’ll just attempt the new exam format in September.
Hi, Just sat the exam these were really helpful thank you! Helped me cover some last minute topics I had not went into to much detail on... Now to wait for the results. I managed to answer all ten questions, felt like a slipped up on a 20 marker due to me forgetting the belbin model but am hoping the others bring me above the 55%.
Hi I am glad it was helpful- it is a tough 3 hour exam- I am sure you did amazing. found this is a good workbook www.qa.com/courseware/pcw/pcw-apmp-3.pdf
Thank you for your video. Your stats from 2 mins onwards are fascinating. I am an experienced senior project manager, and attended the Knowledge Academy one week course and studied hard to ensure I knew all of the relevant terms and processes and roles etc. I was confident when I took the online exam, but was really disappointed to find I'd failed with a score of 50. If I'd scored 52 or more I could have it re-counted, but I was not close enough and having it re-marked cost around £550! I didn't really understand why I'd failed and it took me a while to get the vague details back - it's such a shame that you can't actually get your questions and responses back marked - basically it's really hard to have any idea how to improve. I think that perhaps my exam technique was not perfect, as it's really important to understand the difference from how the questions are worded, from 'explain' and 'describe' and 'state' etc. I decided to re-take the exam at a personal cost of over £400 and took it last week. Again I'm confident I've passed and I certainly know so much on this subject now, I feel I could teach it now! However, watching this video has actually made me think that it might be bit of a con, and I think that the guidance answers and marking scheme is purposefully vague, to reduce the chance of people challenging. The more people fail, the more money they will make, and the cost of re-marking is so unnecessarily high. I think if I fail again, I might challenge it, although not sure how. I don't understand how they are regulated and surely there must be quality control aspects to this and transparency - as per the project management skills they are testing us on - but I am concerned that they don't share their pass rates - it does seem quite unusual and I am certainly of the opinion that something not quite right is going on here. I know the exam is moving to be multiple choice, but I wonder how this will work effectively, and if you fail, what you will receive back - I doubt it will be the questions and answers.
Hi Jon - I am a PM with a couple of years experience under my belt and have just completed my 1 week crash course. Honestly it was not enough for someone with 0 knowledge to learn everything and I probably will rely upon my experience as a linear lifecyle PM to help me get through but really struggling to do recall for the answer questions and obviously there is the problem of having enough time to answer. Do you have any specific tips you can share with me for Monday please? Any thing I should focus on doing?
@@xAmarax1 I'm not sure what to suggest, and it's probably too late now (if your exam is today) - I would say the key thing is to understand the question terms - so when it asks you to EXPLAIN something, then you need to explain the purpose, the WHY it is done, not describe it. If it asks you to DESCRIBE something then you need to provide the details. Etc. So read the first word of the sentence first and stay on track. Also, the time flies by really quickly, so stay focussed, keep writing and try to answer all 10 questions. I'm still waiting on my result from my second attempt, but it is hard, and honestly, I think the failure rate is quite high, so if you fail first time as I did, get back up study for 6 weeks one hour every night - and practice exam questions and do it again. Having said that, they are changing the exam to be multiple choice from September and so that might change things. Good luck!
@@Jon7Lane Hi Jon, I did manage to read your comment just before I took the exam at 1pm so thanks very much for your reply!! My immediate feedback from the exam is that preparation was definitely key and once I was in exam mode I was definitely a lot quicker than when I was doing the sample questions. I ended up answering 10 full questions but missed half of a part A and missed a ‘third reason’ in a part B somewhere but hope the rest of my answers were good enough. I think I ended up perhaps waffling on and didn’t get time to recheck my answers but at least it’s done…we will find out in 8 weeks…
@xAmarax1 fingers crossed for us both. I am concerned that it's a bit of a money making con, as retaking the exam costs so much, and I do wonder what the pass rate is. I am a very experienced senior project manager and I know my stuff, so I really would expect to pass. I hope we both do.
@@Jon7Lane agreed, I feel a lot of these institutions create these courses for money/corporate status which makes them look good. I spoke to my manager and he said the pass rate a few years ago was also something like 50%. So good luck to us both!
I'm going to resit exams this January. I did not pass my first attempt and I don't know why, I ate the whole AMP book, and all source documents, and nearly every question got " knowledge confirmed " yet, didn't pass. Thank you for your video, I will try to take into account everything from it. Hopefully, I will pass this time.
@@dawidkiereta2835 Hi there, sorry I didn't saw the message from you, yes I do have a source document with all PMQ questions and level 7 ideal responses. Is not the holy grail, but it helped me a lot with understanding what type of answer they expecting for a pass. I can forward it to you onto e-mail or something.
On my exam results I only had the First page with scoring, nothing else... I am going to attempt another exam in December but found some topics were not covered by course provider...
You can ask for the second page - I found this book which you might find helpful www.qa.com/courseware/pcw/pcw-apmp-3.pdf good luck and if you have any questions please ask :-)
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I’ve just sat my exam and it’s a strange coincidence as I think we were given the exact same questions! It’s a bloody tough exam and I feel extremely drained from it. I managed to get an answer down for all the questions (albeit leaving 1 part A and another part B unfinished).
Hopefully I’ve done enough to pass, if I haven’t then I think I’ll just attempt the new exam format in September.
Hi, Just sat the exam these were really helpful thank you! Helped me cover some last minute topics I had not went into to much detail on... Now to wait for the results. I managed to answer all ten questions, felt like a slipped up on a 20 marker due to me forgetting the belbin model but am hoping the others bring me above the 55%.
Hi I am glad it was helpful- it is a tough 3 hour exam- I am sure you did amazing.
found this is a good workbook www.qa.com/courseware/pcw/pcw-apmp-3.pdf
did you pass?
Thank you for your video. Your stats from 2 mins onwards are fascinating. I am an experienced senior project manager, and attended the Knowledge Academy one week course and studied hard to ensure I knew all of the relevant terms and processes and roles etc. I was confident when I took the online exam, but was really disappointed to find I'd failed with a score of 50. If I'd scored 52 or more I could have it re-counted, but I was not close enough and having it re-marked cost around £550! I didn't really understand why I'd failed and it took me a while to get the vague details back - it's such a shame that you can't actually get your questions and responses back marked - basically it's really hard to have any idea how to improve. I think that perhaps my exam technique was not perfect, as it's really important to understand the difference from how the questions are worded, from 'explain' and 'describe' and 'state' etc. I decided to re-take the exam at a personal cost of over £400 and took it last week. Again I'm confident I've passed and I certainly know so much on this subject now, I feel I could teach it now! However, watching this video has actually made me think that it might be bit of a con, and I think that the guidance answers and marking scheme is purposefully vague, to reduce the chance of people challenging. The more people fail, the more money they will make, and the cost of re-marking is so unnecessarily high. I think if I fail again, I might challenge it, although not sure how. I don't understand how they are regulated and surely there must be quality control aspects to this and transparency - as per the project management skills they are testing us on - but I am concerned that they don't share their pass rates - it does seem quite unusual and I am certainly of the opinion that something not quite right is going on here. I know the exam is moving to be multiple choice, but I wonder how this will work effectively, and if you fail, what you will receive back - I doubt it will be the questions and answers.
Hi Jon - I am a PM with a couple of years experience under my belt and have just completed my 1 week crash course. Honestly it was not enough for someone with 0 knowledge to learn everything and I probably will rely upon my experience as a linear lifecyle PM to help me get through but really struggling to do recall for the answer questions and obviously there is the problem of having enough time to answer. Do you have any specific tips you can share with me for Monday please? Any thing I should focus on doing?
@@xAmarax1 I'm not sure what to suggest, and it's probably too late now (if your exam is today) - I would say the key thing is to understand the question terms - so when it asks you to EXPLAIN something, then you need to explain the purpose, the WHY it is done, not describe it. If it asks you to DESCRIBE something then you need to provide the details. Etc. So read the first word of the sentence first and stay on track. Also, the time flies by really quickly, so stay focussed, keep writing and try to answer all 10 questions. I'm still waiting on my result from my second attempt, but it is hard, and honestly, I think the failure rate is quite high, so if you fail first time as I did, get back up study for 6 weeks one hour every night - and practice exam questions and do it again. Having said that, they are changing the exam to be multiple choice from September and so that might change things. Good luck!
@@Jon7Lane Hi Jon, I did manage to read your comment just before I took the exam at 1pm so thanks very much for your reply!! My immediate feedback from the exam is that preparation was definitely key and once I was in exam mode I was definitely a lot quicker than when I was doing the sample questions. I ended up answering 10 full questions but missed half of a part A and missed a ‘third reason’ in a part B somewhere but hope the rest of my answers were good enough. I think I ended up perhaps waffling on and didn’t get time to recheck my answers but at least it’s done…we will find out in 8 weeks…
@xAmarax1 fingers crossed for us both. I am concerned that it's a bit of a money making con, as retaking the exam costs so much, and I do wonder what the pass rate is. I am a very experienced senior project manager and I know my stuff, so I really would expect to pass. I hope we both do.
@@Jon7Lane agreed, I feel a lot of these institutions create these courses for money/corporate status which makes them look good. I spoke to my manager and he said the pass rate a few years ago was also something like 50%. So good luck to us both!
Hi vikram apologies just seen your message. How can I help
If you have any questions that you would like to know or copies of the documents I have shared please, let me know
Hi, please what is the best way to prepare?
I'm going to resit exams this January. I did not pass my first attempt and I don't know why, I ate the whole AMP book, and all source documents, and nearly every question got " knowledge confirmed " yet, didn't pass. Thank you for your video, I will try to take into account everything from it. Hopefully, I will pass this time.
Hello, when is your exam? If you have any additional study materials then I would be very grateful i you could share them.
@@dawidkiereta2835 Hi there, sorry I didn't saw the message from you, yes I do have a source document with all PMQ questions and level 7 ideal responses. Is not the holy grail, but it helped me a lot with understanding what type of answer they expecting for a pass. I can forward it to you onto e-mail or something.
@@simplyem9469 did you end up passing second time round? What did you do differently?
On my exam results I only had the First page with scoring, nothing else... I am going to attempt another exam in December but found some topics were not covered by course provider...
You can ask for the second page - I found this book which you might find helpful www.qa.com/courseware/pcw/pcw-apmp-3.pdf
good luck and if you have any questions please ask :-)
Thank You@@howdwinwithoutu
Hello, thank you for sharing a book but this is a book 6 ver. Has anyone got book 7. My 3rd attempt will be in December.
@@dawidkiereta2835 how did your exam go
@@dawidkiereta2835 yes version 6 but the questions are extremely helpful
Can you kindly pass me your email address to have quick discussion about the APM PMQExam?
If you share your email address I can respond back to you. kind Regards