Your score report already told you where you lost the exam
PMI doesn’t just tell you that you failed. It rates you on every task on the exam, one by one.
Most people read that page once, in the worst ten minutes of their week, and never open it again. That’s a mistake. It’s the most useful thing you get out of a failed attempt.
SCORE REPORT GUIDE · ABOUT 10 MINUTES
Here’s how to read it and turn it into a short study list.
Open your report
Log in to your PMI account.
Go to Exam Analysis and select View Report.
Scroll down to the section called Domain Performance.
Tip: keep your report open in one tab and this page in another, so you can work through them side by side.
Read the bars by position
Each task has one bar split into three spaces, Low at one end and High at the other. One space is filled in. There are no words on the bars, so the position is the whole message. It’s a range, not a grade.
Left: low Study First
The exam beat you on this task
Middle: the danger zone OPTIONAL
Familiar enough to feel known, not solid enough under exam pressure. Study if you have time
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