What If You Don't Pass Don't plan on this... but if you don't pass: Immediately sit down with your textbook and quickly go page by page. You can do this sitting in your car, outside the testing center. That way your memory will be in the best possible condition to have this work. Look at each section, attempting to remember if there was a question from that section on your exam. Most people can't remember very many questions, if asked, right after the exam, but lots of people can remember when reminded of the section, or topic. It is a VERY good way to fix things if you don't make a passing grade. Here's the problem: you won't know very well (the printout they give you won't help much) which ones you missed and which ones you got correct. The time spent with our suggestion in the previous paragraph will make a major difference because you will recognize that the topic was on your exam, and then look and read to see if you answered the question correctly. If you did, the reading will confirm it, if you didn't, you will discover that you didn't understand that concept correctly and now you will see what you had wrong. The specific questions that gave you trouble aren't as important as the general topics. The next exam won't have the same questions, but the same topics will be covered. If you wait very many days after your exam to do this, it won't work. It needs to be done immediately. Then, study the chapters you need to cover, noting the ones where you had problems, do the final in the back of the book, study the glossary thoroughly, and get into the PMReview questions again and again. Don't wait to register for the exam again. Depending a little on your day-job schedule if you have one, get right back into another try on the exam as soon as possible. Don't wait until you are completely comfortable with the material. For most people, that day will never arrive. :-)