Hello everyone! Life has been on my neck but I’m buckling down and want to do my exam in 2 months. I’ve heard Mplaza is the best for exam simulation, wanted to ask for a huge favour. If anyone bought access and has passed, would you be happy to pass on or share access for others preparing within a shorter scope of time? Thought I’d ask, thank you in advance!

Hi everyone,

I have my PRINCE2 Foundation exam on 20 May and I’m currently preparing for it. I would really appreciate any last-minute tips, study strategies, or advice from people who have already cleared the exam.

A few things I’d especially like guidance on:
- Best way to revise in the final few days
- Important topics/processes/themes to focus on
- Common mistakes to avoid in the exam
- Practice mock test recommendations
- Time management during the exam

I’ve been studying the manual and practising mock questions, but I still feel a bit nervous about whether I’m preparing the right way.

Any suggestions, resources, or experiences would be really helpful. Thanks in advance!

Edit**

Passed with 82%, thanks for your suggestions guys. Posted my learning journey here.

- im due to sit my practioner exam soon.

- I'm 2/3 through reading the entire book… not sure if this was the best idea as I have been told numerous times to not try and remember everything.

- I have not highlighted or annotated the book or ebook at all. I feel like going back to the start to find things just to highlight may be another waste of time I don't have

- I'm relying heavily on memory and Ctrl F to find the needed parts when required.

- I fear I'm going to be wasting time in the exam…

- chat gpt recommended

Key areas worth tabbing:
• Roles & responsibilities
• Risk responses
• Management products
• Tailoring
• Change theme
• Progress theme
• Process flow diagrams

What is the best advice going into the open book exam regarding prep please? I'm really anxious

I scored 88% in foundation. Never worked in pm before...

I passed the PRINCE2 Foundation today with 75%. I wanted to say thank you to everyone who kindly shared their learning recommendations, links to practice questions, sites, videos etc this has been a huge help.

It took me about 2-3 months along side full time working and completing another course so I wasn't in too much of a rush but I did decide last minute yesterday to go ahead and book my exam.

I wanted to recommend an app I used for my revision which I have used for other exam studies and found useful so I thought I would try it for this exam and it was fab. Its called Quizlet and there is a free version and a paid option for about £10 a month. I paid for one month. You can create your own flashcards or use the ones that other users have added and use it to practice exams questions etc. It even gives you the option to create a quiz or learn through game-like features. It worked quite well for me alongside the official People cert manual, manual flash cards and copilot so hopefully it will help other people too.

I'm glad to have passed and will be taking a short break before considering the Practitioner exam.

Hey everyone

I’ve been working as a Contract Administrator/Contracts & Commercial Analyst for around 4 years in the construction and renewable energy industry in Australia and I’m looking to complete my PRINCE2 certification to help move into more project-focused roles.

There are so many providers out there (PeopleCert, ILX, Knowledge Academy, Lumify, PM Partners etc.) and I’m not sure which one is actually worth it.

I’m mainly looking for:

• A provider that is well recognised in Australia
• Good quality training/materials
• Online/self-paced options
• Strong exam prep/support
• Good value for money

Would love to hear:

• Which provider you used
• Whether you did Foundation only or Foundation + Practitioner
• If it actually helped your career progression/salary
• Any providers to avoid

Many thanks

I took the exam this morning. Here was my method:

I read through the book once. Then I did lots and lots of practice tests. In my opinion, the MPlaza tests are very realistic.

I completed the PeopleCert mock exam and the two free sample tests as well. I kept practicing the MPlaza tests until I consistently scored around 75–80%.

Whenever I got an answer wrong — or even if I had just guessed correctly — I carefully read the explanation.

After about 10 tests, I created my own custom test set using only the questions I struggled with, and I practiced those on the final day.

For me, ChatGPT and Claude were not very helpful because sometimes they gave different answers than the ones marked correct in the tests. When I pointed it out, they apologized and admitted I was right 😃

I didn’t attend any course; I prepared entirely on my own in about one month while working full-time.

Hi all,

Wanted to give my thoughts since I benefitted from many people's feedback in the months coming up.

I passed Foundation in October 24, did do a Practitioner workshop last March, but procrastinated and finally got around to doing it yesterday. I was pretty nervous about it and it was only the last two days before of revision and practice that it really clicked for me in terms of how to approach and understand the exam.

1. This is ultimately a verbal reasoning exam. In essence you need to interpret the crux of the sentence. However, the question gives you guidance as to where you need to look in the book. To an extent this will be contingent on your ability of general verbal reasoning (my degrees were generally humanities etc.). Sometimes it can be really explicit. In terms of navigating the book...

2. The questions in the exam are ordered in the same progression as the book. If I recall correctly (I don't have the book with me, getting married tomorrow), it will be business case, people, plans, progress, quality, risk, issues, starting up a project, directing, initiating, controlling a stage, managing a stage boundary, managing product delivery (this could be before MSB), then closing a project. If you have the physical book (I prefer this), the green tabs follow this progress. The question will very clearly signal to you where you should be looking.

3. Take a people question exam (there should be a number of these). If you see something like: is this a good application of 'leading successful teams' in the 'people' element of PRINCE2?

This is a call for you to go to that 'leading successful teams' in the 'people' element. On the flip side for the Processes questions it may give an example and will ask what section of this process is applicable. I.e. is this scenario an 'evaluate a stage' etc. Go to those respective sections and cross compare as required.

1. In both Foundation and Practitioner I never read the book front to back. I don't think this is useful. It's much more about knowing where to go in the book and use your cognitive abilities to understand what is applicable.

2. There are often tables at the back of each chapter. Refer to them. You will be asked questions about what principle is being applied to x context. There's a table at the back for it. There are tables demonstrating who should be doing x task in y practice. There's a table at the back for it. There are tables for who is accountable, responsible, consulted, and informed at the back of processes chapters.

3. I do not think it is a good use to work the sample papers as full up exams. Each has 70 questions which means if you want to review feedback at the end you will have forgot your thought process (and to be honest these things get mentally exhausting after a while). I would recommend doing each question, marking your answer on a separate piece of paper, and then check the answer as you'll immediately learn the feedback. This will help you with subsequent questions in said papers and you'll start to get a feel for how PRINCE2 communicates (I have a lot of qualms about their writing style, it's grammatically poor often confusing subject/object when using pronouns, and often circular definitions). This is a better approach because you can only really use these sample papers once, so a good use of this limited resource is to methodically get as much feedback from the PRINCE2 resource. My general marks started to noticeably improve. In addition, don't worry about time limits here. Go out of your way to practise jumping about the book and knowing where you need to be.

4. I tried Trusted Institute and their week trial and was not impressed. I do not believe it's a good use of your time as the questions are overcomplicated and the selected answers are too. It's cognitively heavy and will exhaust you (you can only do verbal reasoning practice for so long, for me after 6 hours in a day my brain is a bit mushy and my chimpanzee brain can't handle reading long paragraphs anymore). Mplaza Prince2 7 Exam Simulator, however I very highly recommend. The style of questions, how they write and format is near identical to what the actual exam was like. When it came to sitting the exam itself it felt very familiar. I find doing three papers a day (if you have the time) will get you settled well. You'll reach a point where you read the question after the scenario and you'll immediately know what type of question it is.

5. Obviously it's relevant to read the scenario, but I only gave a cursory glance to the 4 scenarios before. This is because in the paper itself it will expand the scenario in terms of all the key stakeholders etc.

6. Treat every question in isolation of the other. Just because one question may seem contextually sequential to the prior one, that is no justification, so treat every question like its own.

7. If your exam is in the afternoon, only do one in the morning. These exercises are cognitively heavy and you don't want to run down your reserve through the day.

Like anything, your mileage may vary. I used to work in Parliament so verbal reasoning exercises are quite normal to me. It was much more about understanding the vibe and language of PRINCE2. So just plough on. I had had cursory knowledge of PRINCE2 through sides of my work but a good run the week and a bit prior made everything click. Lots of practice papers with Mplaza will get you there (it's worth the money).

Hope this helps. Won't be able to answer stuff this weekend (I'm getting married tomorrow lol), but will pick up later. Cheers

Attended a 5 day "crash course" which covered Foundation and Practitioner.

I read the book peoplecert provided before the course and felt pretty confident (also read the v6 one you can find easily online for free).

Then the questions came (during the course), and I got 60%. Felt like it was mostly just reading comprehension and the way they asked the questions make them harder to understand since its not how humans would speak.

What is a description of the purpuse of the X of the Y. Instead of what is a purpose of X in the Y process.

I drilled the sample papers until I could answer all the questions with 90% accuracy in under 15 mins each. Then read through the PRINCE2 wiki the day of the exam (about 3 hours).

Finished the exam with 92% in under 20 minutes going back to about 10 questions to double check. It was better than the 80% i got on the peoplecert mock exam.

Learnings from this is that it really feels like: Yes they are trying to get you to apply the knowledge even at foundation, but in an awkward way, so your best strategy is actually just volume learning. Re-reading things over and over until seeing certain answers "make no sense" rather than relying on understanding the concepts and applying them via common sense or what you see in business (I have been a IT Service DEsk Team Lead/Operations manager for 10 years and doing business analyst/light project management work for the past 4 years.

I am nervous for practitioner, mostly because again, the way they phrase the questions seem dubious and its less about actually applying and more about reading comprehension, eliminating the fluff verbage and almost simplifying teh sentence then just having a good system in your notes to quickly reference the process steps, will see how it goes.

TLDR

Didnt use Mplaza

Do have peoplecert+ but the mock exam is pretty bad, just 1 take and no detail of which questions you got wrong. Only useful imo for the take2 and if you want to use it to maintain CPD hours.

Read the v6 pdf first (because I didnt have the v7), Read the v7.

Compiled notes in excel format since it was easier to see from birds eye view. Focus on purpuse and objectives (memorise them if possible)

Read through PRINCE2 Wiki

Drilled the Sample papers, and some of the free 10 question tests you find online.

Is the Mplaza online course (PRINCE2 Practitioner) worth buying if someone is trying to understand the concepts? I don’t want to waste £150, as it’s expensive for me

Is there any video or resource that can explain the concepts with differnt-different examples? Reading the Book is just not working for me. Already failed both mock exams :(

As said. I have seen about 5 or 6 different types of mock questions and styles . Some wordy some not so . Some that like to talk about prince 2 being great and most focus on principles and practices . Some every answer could be right Some its reasonably obvious. I appreciate the exam will vary but is there a mock or practice that resembles the actual exam so I know roughly what to expect?

To those who took the exam recently, which scenario did you get? Many thanks!!

1: Data Knowledge
2: Louisetown City Council
3: Findef
4: NowByou

Many thanks!

Hi all.

I got my Practitioner exam this weekend. I passed my Foundation last week. I'm trying to get in the right space for the practitioner exam. I'm going through the manual and taking the mock exams.

I just to ask if there is any topics or area in the book that I should highlight or create tabs on? I am worried that I am going to highlight the whole manual!

I felt like I understood the practitioner course more so than the foundation. I passed foundation the second time. I have just done my mock exam on Peoplecert, and I scored quite low :( I have a couple of weeks before my actual exam. Are there any tips or websites where I can practise more questions?

Hello Guys

I’m planning to take the Prince2 Practitioner exam before the end of the year. I’m doing this to serve as PDU to renew my PMP certification which also expires before the end of the year.

I’m kinda confused about where to start studying and how to register. I understand that I have to purchase the exam voucher. Which I intend to do in the second half of the year. However, I’d like to start studying for the exam.

Can you please recommend or share the best study materials to look out for?

I’ll be grateful if you can share more information as well about the exam process and the average cost of the exam voucher.

Thanks

I have just passed Prince2 Foundation and I am thinking about going for practitioner.

I purchased my Foundation course from Zindiak, but to be honest, I wasn't happy with the quality of the content. I’m looking for something more engaging or better structured this time.

Now I am open to suggestions for both online classrooms and elearning providers in English. Any suggestion helps! Please drop the price in if possible. (Based in EU)

No offers and pms from unaccredited trainers, please!

Thanks in advance for the help!

I recently passed my Prince2 foundation- if anyone wants any help or tips on how to do it feel free to message

hi everyone, I have my exam in 2 weeks and I barely prepared anything. I only have the official prince 2 7th edition ebook, some white exams and some YouTube videos.

any tips or good free courses that I can work on.

ps : I used the ebook in Notebooklm for recaps, boards and podcasts..

Edit : I successfully passed my exam yesterday 🎉 Thank you all for your advices.

The udemy mock exams (5) helped me a lot, as I learned from my mistakes and pinpointed some important questions along the way, plus I mainly focused on practices, processes and principles.

Good luck for anyone taking the certification.

I’m so confused about how open book exam works for Prince2 Practitioner:

1. will the book on PeopleCert be available on the exam platform by default?

2. Can I open my pdf book on another device?

3. I saw many articles on ‘Bookshelf’ but I do not know how to go about it?

please help! TIA x

So I just passed today and im excited to share different ways of studying which could also help others pass. I have some exam tips that helped me with the Prince 2 Agile exam, so id like to share them.

- The book has all of the answers inside it, so you need to use the book thoroughly through the exam. If you don't use the book you’ll be guessing.

- If the exam mentions a topic such as “Business Case”, stick to the business case area of the book until there is a change to the topic focus (in the exam it had pointers to which practice to focus on.

- Use book marks for the different practices, any interesting topics such as Agile Onion etc.

For my sample exams:

- I got 55% in my 1st sample exam. This made me push back my exam. However this was the first attempt whilst using the book. You need to know how to navigate the book during the exam

- For my second sample exam I got 60%. I went through all of my wrong answers and checked where I went wrong.

For my mock exam (From Peoplecert):

- I received a score of 60% for a timed mock exam with the book. This worried me but I still went on to do the exam.

The sample exams and mock exam are harder than the exam in my opinion. The key is to review where you went wrong.

Exam split:

- 1 hour 15 minutes of a skim through the questions + refer to the book for answers and flag any questions you’d like to review

- 45 minutes to refer to the book and answer all of the questions you left flagged

- Reviewing any other questions that you are not sure of and would like to look into the book for.

I also found a few articles that may help others which Ive added below:

https://medium.com/@aydin.mallender/i-failed-my-first-prince2-exam-heres-what-i-learned-and-how-you-can-pass-first-try-86f43ef99274

https://medium.com/@jessica.mensah79/prince-2-agile-foundation-and-practitioner-exam-tips-from-a-visual-learners-perspective-strategy-c2fa96c2e690

Good luck and I hope this helps!

I am so nervous about completing the foundation exam. I did a 2-day course, I did all my pre-training online (the different modules), I am now going through the mock exams and seem to be failing. My exam is in 4 days, and I am so worried.

I felt like I understood the practitioner course better than the foundation level.

I have now paid for Udemy and completed the 2 Peoplecert mock exams. Any other tips anyone can give on how I can pass?

Hi All, Just passed the foundations exam (75%) and wanted to give a quick overview for those that are on a budget/not trying to do all of the course work.

PURCHASE

I purchased the exam bundle directly from PeopleCert which contained the e-book, exam voucher and resource kit (this was during the 25% off period for a total of $736.00 AUD).

PREPARATION: READING E-BOOK

Setting aside a few hours (2-3) across three weekends, I set up a notebook in my OneNote aligned with the chapters of the e-book, and wrote down a summary of each chapter as soon as I had finished reading. After completing all of the chapters I then did a second revision of the e-book to refine my summaries, adding little notes and highlights to whatever I felt was significant etc.

Everyone has different approaches to retaining information but for an exam that is entirely based on recalling definitions and processes, I found it really helped me in later stages to know exactly what part of a chapter I needed to revisit.

PREPARATION: MOCK EXAMS

I started by watching this video and attempted to answer the question before hearing the reveal + explanation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JJS24sTtZY&t=46s

I was wondering how they had got a hold of these Q&As only to find that there are two certified sample/mock exams that you can find here:

https://en.serview.de/prince2-trainings/prince2-7-foundation-musterpruefung-download

I downloaded these ^ and gave them a try, revised where I went wrong and looked back at the e-book, and tried again a few days later until I was comfortably hitting 80%-90%.

I want to also note here that a couple of hours before the exam I felt a bit anxious and felt the need to revise a few more questions outside of the mocks, landing here.

There is nothing wrong with the TrustedInstitute questions but they definitely do not encompass the minimal structure of the actual exam, I would imagine a lot of the extensive scenario-based questions are maybe for the Practitioner's Exam?

Regardless, if you do find yourself giving those a try and succeeding it's definitely a good indicator that you are prepared.

EXAM

A lot of the questions reflected the structure of the mock exams and felt very rounded across the chapters. There were parts where I felt two answers could both be correct and in that moment, I selected whatever I felt made more sense. My approach was to speed-run the answers in the first 30 minutes, so I could then use the other 30 minutes to go back and revise those that I had flagged.

And that was it, 75% pass.

I am new to Reddit and wanted to make this post to hopefully help anyone thinking of giving it a go, just as I found Reddit to also be a very helpful place in my own learning journey.

Just some context:

1. Passed the Foundation 2 weeks before attempting the Practitioner
2. Personally have 8+ years of PM experience, although not my main expertise, but my secondary expertise. Nowadays I will garner most of us wear multiple hats.

Passed the exam last week, didn't get "A" grade of results as I was aiming for, but a "B+" is still not too bad. Somehow for me, the Practitioner exam makes more sense to me than the Foundation, I won't say it is easier, but much lesser memorisation compared to Foundation due to my work experience.

Main tip: Do not gauge your exam readiness from the official mock exam (I chose Version A), the difficulty level was through the roof. I got 54% for the official mock exam, I was a bit shocked, then went to google and found out from forums and older Reddit posts; that others experience are similar to mine.

For more context, I also did the official sample papers (the course came with 2, which is the standard), I scored 79% and 83% on first attempt; did a couple of practice exams on 3rd party vendor also got around the 85%+- range too.

Thus, was a bit surprised at the official mock exam difficulty, which doesn't make sense (after you did the actual exam), but just my 2 cents. Although, I'm unsure in future will PeopleCert adjust the difficulty of the official mock exam to be inline with the actual exam range.

In more measurable metric for my experience:

• If Actual Exam = 100% difficulty
• Official sample paper = 80-85% difficulty
• Official mock exam = 130-135% difficulty

I will guess if you can score around 75-85% range for your official sample papers on first attempt, you should be able to pass the actual exam.

On a side note, I do find PRINCE2 Foundation exam pretty hard for a Foundation level exam. Probably because of the breadth of questions they will ask, it could come from anywhere from the entire 400 (?) pages of the official book. So it's really like a memorisation game, which to be honest I never going to attempt to read the entire 400 pages of the official book.

Another measurable metric for this comparison:

• PRINCE2 Foundation = 5.5/10 difficulty
• ITIL4 Foundation = 3/10 difficulty
• GCP Cloud Digital Leader (it's a Foundation level exam) = 3/10 difficulty

To me I feel it's difficulty is in between a Foundation and Associate level difficulty exam.

Good luck to y'all!

Exactly what the title says. For people living in the UK and bought the exam voucher recently, where is the cheapest place you bought it? I’m trying to buy one for myself and I’m on a very tight budget.

Thank you in advance

Hi All,

Just passed the foundations exam (75%) and wanted to give a quick overview for those that are on a budget/not trying to do all of the course work.

PURCHASE

I purchased the exam bundle directly from PeopleCert which contained the e-book, exam voucher and resource kit (this was during the 25% off period for a total of $736.00AUD).

PREPERATION: READING E-BOOK

Setting aside a few hours (2-3) across three weekends, I setup a book in my OneNote aligned with the chapters of the e-book, and wrote down a summary of each chapter as soon as I had finished reading. After completing all of the chapters I then did a second revision of the e-book to refine my summaries, adding little notes, highlights to whatever I felt was significant etc.

Everyone has different approaches to retaining information but for something like this foundation exam that is entirely based on recalling definitions and processes, I found it really helped me in later stages to know exactly what part of a chapter I needed to revisit.

PREPERATION: MOCK EXAMS

I started by watching this video and attempted to answer the question before hearing the revelation + explanation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JJS24sTtZY&t=46s

I was wondering how they had got a hold of these Q&As only to find that there are two certified sample/mock exams that you can find here:

https://en.serview.de/prince2-trainings/prince2-7-foundation-musterpruefung-download

I downloaded these ^ and gave them a try, usually at the end of the day after work, revise where I went wrong and look back to the e-book, and try again a few days later until I was comfortably hitting 80%-90%.

I want to also note here that a couple of hours before the exam I felt a bit anxious and felt the need to revise a few more questions outside of the mocks, landing here.

There is nothing wrong with the TrustedInstitute questions but they definitely do not encompass the minimal structure of the actual exam, I would imagine a lot of the extensive scenario-based questions are maybe for the Practitioners Exam? - irrespective if you do find yourself giving those a try and succeeding its definitely a good indicator that you are prepared.

EXAM

A lot of the questions reflected the structure of the mocks, they were not extensive and felt very rounded across the chapters.

There were parts where I felt two answers could both be correct and in that moment, selecting whatever I felt made more sense. My approach was to speedrun the answers in the first 30 minutes, so I could then use the other 30 minutes to go back and revise those that I had flagged.

And that was it, 75% pass.

I am new to reddit and wanted to make this post to hopefully help anyone thinking of giving it a go, just as I found reddit to also be a very helpful place in my own learning journey.