r/capm

I passed my CAPM exam on 5/11/26 using mostly just Pocket Prep Premium and Andrew Ramdayal's CAPM courses on Udemy to get my required credit hours. I've been watching his videos on and off since Feb, but didn't seriously start studying till April. I bought the full course during one of Udemy’s sales for around $20 instead of doing the monthly subscription. They run sales pretty often, so I’d recommend waiting for one if you can. Otherwise, the course is around $129, while the subscription option is about $10/month. The subscription is cheaper upfront, but you lose access once you stop paying.

I honestly hate taking notes. I find it distracting when I'm just trying to actually listen to lectures so I automated the notes part by copy/pasting the transcripts from Andrew's videos and putting that into ChatGPT. I used a prompt something along the lines of... "Use this transcript and make concise notes in layman's terms. Keep the notes in the order that it's mentioned in the video, and don't simplify them too much to where I miss important exam wording." I used that same prompt for basically every video because I noticed that if I stopped including the full instructions and just assumed ChatGPT would remember them from before, the formatting and style would start changing up on me and become inconsistent.

After getting the notes, I'd put them into a Word doc, do split-screen mode with the video playing on one side and notes on the other. I'd just follow along, and glance over notes to make sure it's all accurate. It's my lazy way to take notes, but it worked for me. After finishing the videos, I tried making Anki flashcards. I even used AI to generate those too by feeding ChatGPT my notes and asking it to make flashcards. Then I manually transferred them into Anki. Personally, I felt like this ended up wasting more time than it helped.

What DID help a ton was asking ChatGPT to list all 10 knowledge areas along with their processes and outputs. I memorized all the knowledge areas/processes and only the major outputs. That made Pocket Prep questions make way more sense.

I specifically memorized that section over two days by repeatedly writing everything out on a small dry erase board and using active recall. Small dry erase boards are honestly underrated for studying.

Since I only spent about two days on memorizing processes/outputs, I’m pretty sure that’s why I only got a T in that domain. I'd highly recommend to memorize the knowledge areas, processes, and major outputs FIRST and everything should make more sense faster when you start doing Pocket Prep.

For Pocket Prep, I only used it for only two weeks, and went through about 802 out of 2000 questions. I used pretty much every quiz type on the app—quick 10 questions, timed quizzes, missed questions only, weakest subject, or build your own. Andrew Ramdayal's course did have some quizzes you can take, but I did kinda poorly on them and it was ruining my confidence two days before the test so I stopped and just stuck with Pocket Prep instead lol.

The actual exam questions weren’t exactly the same as Pocket Prep, but Pocket Prep still helped MASSIVELY with passing. Personally, I wouldn’t say either Pocket Prep or the actual exam questions were harder than the other. They felt pretty evenly matched to me. Also, there were a couple of concepts on the exam that I haven't heard of in Pocket Prep, and I'm unsure if they were covered in the Udemy courses but I just used deductive reasoning on that and thankfully, it turned out fine. I still recommend doing Pocket Prep for more than just two weeks so that you can get through most, if not all, of the 2000 questions. Might as well get your money's worth.

TL;DR
My methods were:

• Andrew Ramdayal's Udemy course
• AI-generated notes from his video transcripts
• Pocket Prep Premium for quizzes and two mock exams
• Repetitive writing on a dry erase board
• Active recall with spaced repetition

Hi. I’m located in Canada and I want to get the CAPM. How should I go about doing it? I want to get it as soon as possible. How long does it take on average to prepare for it? Thanks in advance!

Hey there! I have my exam in 5 hours and I took Landini's 150 questions mock up last night and scored 76% I'm too scared that I'm not ready for the exam. Any tips to make myself prepared before my exam? Or am I doomed?

It took be me about 4 and a half months to get through the course. I tried to do my paper earlier online, but ran into some issues, thankfully Pearson Vue let me reschedule. P.S If you have an issue with your network on exam day, contact Pearson Vue support immediately, take pictures of your screen as evidence too. Good luck!

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Took the CAPM
In person at the centre today.
Completed the exam with about 35 mins remaining and I utilized my 10 minutes break midway through the test.
Got the result determining pass with AT/AT/AT/AT across all 4 domains.

The exam was trickier than I thought. There were times where I was contemplating between two close options after eliminating the other two options. The first 75 questions were time consuming and I flagged about 12 to 14 questions. Had quite a few about 8-10 questions that were presented in a comical template. But gladly I took my time to eliminate the wrong options and chose the best from the two.
Across the next 75 questions I found some questions to be very straight forward but flagged 8-10 questions.
I used Udemy course by Andrew Ramdayal, Study hall, Pocket prep and Landini.
Landini was the closest to the wording and the way the questions were presented in the actual exam.

Passed AT in all domains! My brief take is that after studying a course, you need to take practice questions/exams either Landani or Study Hall (I took SH because I couldn’t buy Landini). Pace yourself because time is very important; you don’t want time pressure or to miss out on questions. You might feel like you are not doing well during the exam, and that’s normal just stay calm and confident in your preparation.
Good luck! 😊

I have been using pocket prep, and love the level up feature because it’s broken down by each of the four categories. I have spent/plan to spend a week on each category, and there’s enough material in there where I feel that it’s thorough. But, is that a mistake just use one resource for my studying? I read mixed reviews online to not use too many resources because it could confuse you, but I don’t want to make sure I’m missing anything but only using pocket prep.

My exam is on the 19th of this month, i am a college student and i am taking a class on project management that covers 70-80% of the CAPM topics (according to my professor) Is pocket prep really worth it? Or any paid services for that matter, because i really don’t have neither the money or the time to spare. I know it might seem reckless or dumb but i need to pass before june 2nd because my PM final is scheduled on that day and i would get a bonus if i passed before then. I am confident, i just need direction so please help a fella out. What actually helps and what doesn’t?

I have horrible test anxiety and passed on my
2nd try. I didn’t tell anyone at work I was taking it tonight because I was mortified having to tell everyone when I failed. I used the AR prep course at Udemy and I also used an app CAPM exam 2026 for practice tests. I finished the class on Thursday and had been doing some practice tests since. Since I just took it I have no idea if I got T, AT, etc. just relieved it’s done. Good luck everyone!

Hey All!

I just paid for the CAPM exam and found a discount code that took $75 off the total price - Not sure if it still works, but figured I'd share in case it brings anyone else luck! : 05GWGCAPM2026

I studied for 4 days and applied common sense. AT-T-BT-AT. I’m sure my experience comes in play here, but just wanted to provide some reassurance that it’s a rather simple test.

So I took the CAPM exam today after starting the 23 hour PMI course in January. I procrastinated the course but finished it last month and studied on and off for a couple weeks and grinded the last 2 weeks. I was consistently getting between 75%-90% on all mock exams.

It took me about 2 hours to complete this morning and I was so anxious to submit it and saw “congratulations…….” I did not read anything past that because I blanked out and closed the program. Does this mean I passed?? Can anyone else confirm what the message said after I submitted it.

I’m just second guessing myself that it didn’t say like “congratulations on taking the exam, but unfortunately did not meet the requirements”

I know I’ll find out in a couple days but wanted some clarity.

I appreciate everyone in this thread explaining their experiences and motivation because that helped me for sure. Thanks in advance!

Passed my CAPM last week with:

T/AT/AT/AT

Intense preparation-2 months

Resources I used:

• Peter Landini’s Project Management: Practice Questions for CAPM Exam-bought the kindle version. The only thing I purchased.
• ChatGPT & Grok for clarifying concepts and breaking things down
• Andrew Ramdayal’s youtube video- just the one with 50 questions
• Any free youtube CAPM videos.
• Also a little bit of pocketprep.
• Visited this sub everyday.

Anyone who has any idea on how to break into project management/ coordination could kindly shed some light. Especially in the Health Sector, I have a health background and I have wanted to shift careers into PM focused so any insights would be really appreciated.

To everyone else preparing for their CAPM, all the best.

Passed my CAPM last Saturday with:
AT / AT / T / NI

Intense Prep time: ~3 weeks

Resources I used:

• Andrew Ramdayal’s CAPM 25 PDU Course + Exam Simulator Bundle
• Peter Landini’s Project Management: Practice Questions for CAPM Exam
• ChatGPT & Gemini for clarifying concepts and breaking things down

What worked for me:

• Focused on understanding concepts instead of memorising
• Used ChatGPT/Gemini to explain topics I didn’t fully get
• Did a lot of practice questions and reviewed wrong answers properly
• Got comfortable with Agile and situational questions

Good luck to everyone preparing.

You've got this!

I passed and was shocked I did. I think it’s natural on that exam to feel like you’re not going to pass because you feel like 80% of the test you’re using critical thinking skills and it can feel like you’re guessing.

I took the test doing very little studying because hearing people talk about the wording scared me. So I took it the 1st time to see the layout knowing I’d fail and then went back and studied for about a week and passed AT/AT/T/BT.

What helped me? I had to learn terms; I needed to know what PM terminology meant and why it was used, and that made me feel comfortable in my choices. But knowing how a PM thinks helped A LOT.

Taking practice tests using Pocket Prep and Landini also helped because it helped me problem-solve through questions, which you’ll need to do on the exam. I was scoring 70%-80% on those.

Overall if you’re a critical thinker you should be fine. GOOD LUCK!