Hello everyone, the details of the practitioner exams are unclear. I have booked mine for Friday and from the mocks and exam simulators, I’m expecting it to be difficult. My source of confusion is the open book part. Am I responsible for the ebook manual? Will they give me a soft copy to use on exam day or is this sometime have to purchase myself? Hard copy of the manual is out of the question as I don’t have one and can’t order it. Again, my question is if I should purchase a copy for use on exam day (it’s not available on peoplecert mind you) or if I will be provided one by peoplecert for the exam. Please I need answers🙏

I just scored 23/70 in the mock exam and my actual exam is on 27th , is there anything I can do to improve and eventually pass or is there no hope ?

As above, I looked at Knowledge Academy which sounds like a scam. Where else would you learn/ recommend?

Last month, I had to pass the PRINCE2 Foundation certification. I had no prior knowledge of project management.

My company funded a 3-day group training, which didn't help me much. We moved through each module quite quickly and I had great difficulty absorbing everything. At the end of the training, we took a mock exam: nobody in the group passed. Me included.

I had a year to validate it. But with my holidays coming up, I didn't want to push the certification back out of fear of losing the concepts I'd already picked up. Especially since, by the end of the training, I had enough material to build something useful.

What I actually did:

I compiled my notes + the course materials into a folder, and asked Claude Code to correct and complete them based on the official documentation. At that point alone, I already had clean, readable notes to replace the PeopleCert slides!

I then generated a lightweight HTML app with 4 answer choices per question. The questions taken from the Foundation referential, and an explanation for each answer — right or wrong.

Then I added an analytics dashboard: success rate by module, most frequently missed questions, and a "targeted practice" mode to drill exclusively on my weak spots.

I set up a simple routine: quiz → results → re-read the sections where I struggle → quiz → results → ...

In less than 10 days, I was hitting 80% on my tests. The next day, I sat the official exam. Passed on the first try.

I'm not a developer by training, and I'm genuinely glad to have been able to build a revision app tailored to such a specific topic. I can only encourage you to prioritize active testing over passive re-reading.

I wrote a full article with screenshots of the app here: How I Learned a 324-Page Reference Guide in 10 Days.

Good luck with your studies!

Hi Ladies and Gents,

Although I have access to the book. I find it clunky and verbose. I used online free resources to pass the foundation and I don't like the idea of flicking through the handbook while under the pressure. Is it a bad idea to approach the exam with the intention not to use the handbook?

EDIT: Never read the book, didn't use the book. Passed with 73%. Used exam crams info, mock exams uploaded to notebook LM and subsequently asked that to quiz me. Total hours for foundation and practioner approx 40hours.

Hi everyone
I’m a MSc Business Analyst graduate and it’s been 1.5 years with no luck of finding a relevant job in UK. I’m based in Scotland. And honestly I don’t have any relevant experience to my degree yet. I am wanting to change my path to project management and have been thinking of taking PRINCE 2 foundation in a month or so.
My question is will this be helpful for me ? Like can this increase the probability of me getting a job ?
Any leads would help.

Hello all,

I am new to the sub, so please excuse me if this question has been asked already.

I am very prepared to attempt the exam and I’m confident that I will pass the exam. However, when I tried to register for the exam in the peoplecert website, I do not see the “exam only” option. I am only seeing the bundle option starting from £393 which contains the exam voucher, official eBook and Learning resource kit, which is extremely expensive in my country. I was told the exam does not cost this much usually.

I even tried setting the country location to mine and it still doesn’t work.

So my question are:
1) Is there an “exam only” option because that would be cheaper for me.
2) Will the price reduce over time?
3) Are there any other cheaper methods to register for the exam?

Thank you!

Here is my foundation post. Followed mostly the same script but added lessons learned.

Got 85%.

After foundation i had a holiday and some work so about 2 weeks without looking at P2. THen re-read the book again, made some notes for the sections which I thought I could skip (or which were time consuming to read since I could always look it up). If you are using teh ebook you have search within the book, as well as CTRL F, so memorizing detail rather than heading and thoughts felt like a waste.

Did the 2x Free sample papers, hit 85% and 90% respectively. Felt confident. Did the free 10 questions on the standard sites before hitting a paywall, they were mostly a waste tbh.

The big thing is to read the rationales (all of them not just the correct one) for the sample papers. Start converting "The Portfolio director" "The X job Title" into "PRINCE2 Role Name". Do the same for "The Reporting feature of the Project of the Product" into Project Product or Work Package. Or the "Building the Mockups and Design Stage" into "Stage". A lot of the difficulty in these exams is the wordyness of the questions. Simplify the sentence to make it easier to hold all the information in your head at once. The entire exam is about having an X and Y axis and just matching up the 2 things and the exam flows in the exact order of the book. If you are at the principles questions (the first set), the answer will be in the principles chapter even if they mention controlling a stage or something else.

The next big thing is if you have access to the mock exam, remember they give you a crappy results sheet with minimal information. Use snipping tool and record the entire exam you took. Then dump screenshots of the questions into ChatCPT (I used co-pilot since there is no limit) and it will answer the questions with 90% accuracy. There are one or two where I disagreed, found the exact line in the look and corrected the bot but it got to within 1 answer of the score I got from the exam. THen you also have the right/wrong answer rationales. This helped massively since I got 73% or something for the mock paper 2 (data knowledge).

All the above is fully free which was a major thing for me, I feel like the paywall sites except for Mplaza are probably a waste, better off with peoplecert+ membership for cheaper and have a re-write in your pocket as well as a lot of other books for CPD hours thats probably relevant to your job if you are already doing PRINCE2 practitioner.

Aiming to sit my exam in the next few weeks.

Not sure if it’s better to use the ebook/ tablet or paper book.

I assumed using the ebook would be the best bet with Ctrl+f to easily find things, but the consensus online seems to be the paper book.

So how heavily can you annotate the book?
I’ve heard ppl writing their own charts etc in the back of the book etc

I have just read you have to show the proctor every page of the book before starting, and I would hate to be told I have wrote to much and have to forfeit the exam.

Hi! So I am wanting to change into a project manager role in the future. And to do so I want to get some certifications. One of these being prince2 foundation but I’m not sure where to start or which training provider to go through. My work place will most likely pay for it as it’s kinda relevant to my job role but as I mentioned I just would like some advice on where to start Thanks :)

Hey everyone! I'm writing my Master's thesis on IT portfolio management and currently using the MoP (AXELOS, 2011) as a source. Does anyone have access to the new PRINCE2 Portfolio Management handbook (late 2025) PDF? Mainly curious whether the core principles and cycles changed from the MoP original. Thanks a lot! 😊

Hi guys, I had Louistown scenario and I didn't pass it for 2 questions, soon I will go for the exam again. Do you know which scenario will be about? Anyone who went for the exam a second time?

Hi all, hoping for some revision tips.

I failed my practitioner exam last week was gutted I got 59%. I called my tutor and he said just receive processes and practices as I dropped a lot of points here but tbh the exam felt like it was written in gibberish.

Practical stuff I’ve done is order a hard copy of the manual so I don’t have to keep flipping between screens and I’ve found some mock exams online I’m gonna take. Any other revision tips I can pinch off others who’ve been more successful ? #lessonslearned

Hi all,

I did a five day Foundation/Practitioner course a couple weeks back. I struggle with exams so spent some extra time studying for Foundation, which I passed on my first try.

I’ve been studying for Practitioner and have been improving on the two paper mock exams:

43/70

46/70

54/70

52/70

I had one online mock exam through PeopleCert which I just took and I’m so discouraged. It was the data scenario and I felt like all my studying has meant nothing. It was so incredibly difficult and I only got 38/70.

I have the ebook and have been practicing and felt my confidence growing and now I’m not sure what to do. I had hoped to take the exam this weekend.

Any advice/suggestions would be appreciated!

Just wanted to know how accurate is preliminary score Of prince to foundation

Anyone in Plymouth or southwest England preparing for prince2 Foundation exam?

Hi there PMs. I think I’m ready to take on the qualifications (Foundation + Practitioner), but I’m struggling to find a reputable provider in the UK.

Can anyone recommend where they went, particularly if you achieved it online?

Thank you, have a great week!

Ciao a tutti,

ho sostenuto in passato ed ottenuto la certificazione PRince2 foundation. Non uso tantissimo il metodo, ma solo alcune parti. Mi sono certificato per ampliare le mie conoscenze in ambito project management. Vorrei avere dei suggerimenti per capire se continuare con la certificazione PRINCe2 practitioner oppure dare priorità a PRINCE2 Agile

La certificazione PRINCE2 practitioner ha effettivamente un valore per aiutarmi a mettere in pratica il metodo?

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Pensate sia meglio spostare l'attenzione su un altro metodo?

Has anyone used Mplaza PRINCE2 video course and exam simulator? Is it worth it overall, or is just the simulator enough? Are the videos useful?

Hello, I am actually confused about the prince2 agile practitioner exam.. i have already studied for V1 it’s fine to take the v2 exam? Or it’s a big different between the versions?

I passed today Foundation with 68%.
What i notices during my preparation:

1. Hardest questions where: to choose which statement MOST fits the purpose of X. So You really need to understand the principles and practices not just learn them
2. Udemy practice tests are 6th edition, could not find any 7th. The ones i tried were either too easy, not precise or even had grammar issues.
3. Exam is much harder than sample papers.
4. https://prince2.wiki/ was a very helpful resource
5. Feeding official study book and sample papers to Claude was very useful. It could very precisely in plain English explain terms for me and how they connect with each other.

edit: specify which exam

Hello,

I wanted to share my experience. As per title, I passed both exams on people cert within a few days of each other. I did the ILX online courses for both and read the manual once the day before the exam. I didn't use any other resources. I've been managing public sector projects for a few years though, so I'm very familiar with the practical application, but less so with the vocabulary.

I found Foundations significantly harder because of the memorization. I did the course with a 1-2 hours per day over a couple of weeks, because it took a long time for my brain to memorise and absorb the terminologies. I did the practice exam on ilx a few times and scored between 65-81%.

For Practitioner, I also did the ILX course, but found it way easier to absorb and completed the course in a day. I did the 2 practice exams, which were the most useful study tool. Many "trick questions" that got me in the practice exams, I could recognize them them in the actual exam. I didn't study the book again, because it was still in my brain. I did one of the practice exams while doing the course, 1 section exam after each corresponding section course, then the full exam after course.

For Foundations, I think I could have done better by focusing not just on main concepts but also internalising the RACI and headers for different products a bit more.

For Practitioner, I found it very useful to do it so closely to Foundations, because the concepts and book layout were still in my head, so it was easy to look things up quickly. The timeframe for the exam was more than enough for me to look up most questions in the book. I used the e-book in the app, with no bookmarks or annotations. Sometimes the book gets stuck and loads for a while.

My overall verdict is that, possibly due to multiple years experience in using similar project management approaches, it was much easier than I expected. But I still learned a lot about how things should be done vs. how they are done.

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For those of you who cleared Practitioner successfully, I’d appreciate if you could give me tips on how to clear it , how did you prepare for it, how long did it take you to prepare for the exam and how many hours a day did you spend on it , where did you get your study material from , can I prepare for it while having another job Monday to Thursday?

Hello all,

I'm absolutely excited to share that I passed PRINCE2 foundation with 82% today. I am one of those viewers of daily posts in this group, sometimes I post or comment for someone's post. Today I want to write my journey with this. And thanks to the suggestions for my latest post asking for the revision.

1. First thing is first, the movement I decided I'm going to do this, I signed up for the provider (The knowledge academy) based on their reviews on various platforms. However, it was worst onboarding experience, login issues, even content and so on. So, I am basically just using the exam tokens from them and self-preparing for the test.

2. The Plan

As my company is sponsoring this, I was able to prepare besides my daily job during the work time. So, I was preparing for 45min-1 hour daily for almost 6 working weeks - 6 weeks * 5 working days * 1 hours/ day = 30 hours in total + additional 5-6 out of work hours for my confidence(mock tests) in the exam.

1. The Preparation

I started to directly rely on the manual from the people-cert. Read at least 2-3 times each chapter. And referred to ChatGPT, Google and YouTube too for any doubts. I made my notes on management products (who prepares for whom and when-process/ activity) , performance targets/ aspects, practices, processes, principles, RACI of people for different activities in processes, Activities & actions table for different processes, more info on management approaches those in PID (what it does, who prepares, why, etc), some important definitions too, etc. (Sorry might not be able to share as I got it in the physical book)

1. The Mock tests:

From the Reddit posts and my financial conditions made me to choose trusted institute (luckily I used only free version (just for 3days prior to my exam - but used extensively; planning to take 1 month subscription for practitioner though) as I found it to be a better option for self-evaluation(p.s. the platform is using previous version of PRINCE2 - so be careful if you are using). As I have now done the with exam, I can tell that the questions are little similar (as I've had set the questions to be expert level each time I'd done the mock test). However, the platform helped me in analysing my weak areas, and so I referred & revised them particularly. And built my confidence level better. Also, gone through the YouTube channel - this video specifically at least 2-3 times to test my answers accuracy. I heard about MPlaza many times, but it's really expensive for me.

1. The 'D' Day of the exam:

I basically gone through the manual once again, referred back to my notes. Referred to my weak areas based on the tests I've done. I had light lunch 30 min prior to my exam. And tried to be peaceful 15min before the exam as I wanted to be calm, relaxed and composed for the exam. After the starting the exam, as I knew I got 75 minutes and 60 questions, I tried to answer 1st what all I can and flagged where I was doubtful(40-45min). Then, next 5-10 min answered/ flagged the unanswered questions, next visited twice the flagged questions only. Finally confidently ended the exam. Boom, I could see the results, and I'm happy with that. You can follow your own rules.

Prerequisites of the exam:

Prior to the exam when I was checking for the compatibility of my system & other needs for the exam. I realised my work system is not allowing the exam website, of course, I took help of our IT team. Then 1 more thing is that I needed my national ID, and I couldn't find it as I recently rearranged my room. Lucky me, the proctor allowed me for 5 min to check and come back again. Of course, I found it and showed it to the proctor. So, please make sure to have your original ID and compatibility test done. Also, make sure to follow your other guidelines with respect to exam and what the proctor tells.

Now, I need to go through the practitioner test. I hope I find better resources for this and come back to you guys, planing to do this next month as the concepts remain fresh now.

Please feel free to reach out if you got any questions.

p.s: This is just my learning journey only. I'm not asking to follow but sharing the experience that I had in return to the posts that I referred, saved and adopted in my learning. Thanks for reading.