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7 guides beyond the syllabus: strategy, test day, scoring, section guide, overview and planning.
Strategy
What separates a bare pass from Above Target in all three domains: the PMI mindset rules, choosing the best of several good actions, the 40/60 predictive and agile balance, high-yield calculations, and a mock-driven loop that lifts every domain to 80%+.
Test day
Checklists for a Pearson VUE centre and for OnVUE online testing: ID rules, check-in, what the tutorial and survey do, the no-return rule at each break, a 240-minute pacing plan with checkpoints after the case section and each block, and how results are released.
Scoring
How the criterion-referenced standard works, what the 10 pretest items mean, what Above Target, Target, Below Target and Needs Improvement mean, why the pass mark is not published, and how Courselo mock percentages map to each rating.
Section guide
How to read a multi-paragraph case with charts once and answer all its linked questions. Covers questions-first skimming, fact mapping, consistency across a set, time budgets per case, and why you must finish before the first break because you cannot return.
Section guide
Tactics for 170 stand-alone questions: FIRST/NEXT/BEST decoding, choose-two and choose-three items, drag-and-drop matching, hotspots, pull-down lists and graphic-based items, plus pacing at about 79 seconds per question and a plan for the long second block.
Overview
Every calculation still worth knowing, each with a worked example and the usual trap: earned value (CV, SV, CPI, SPI, EAC variants, ETC, VAC, TCPI), PERT and triangular estimates, critical path and float, communication channels, EMV and decision trees, NPV, ROI and payback, and velocity-based release forecasting.
Planning
A week-by-week plan through the foundations, People, Process and Business Environment, with daily question targets, when to take the diagnostic and the full mock, checkpoint scores for each domain, and a 6-week fast track for experienced agile practitioners.