Why students who feel perfectly prepared – FAIL their PRINCE2 Practitioner Exam

Do you ever get mixed signals when starting your PRINCE2 Practitioner Exam?
One minute you feel confident you can do this and the next minute you have no clue about ‘obvious’ questions?
Do you feel it’s especially hard when you instinctively know the PRINCE2 Method, and you have no idea what went wrong?
In fact, you probably know more about the Method than the examiner knows, but they are forced to mark you on a hidden method that he must act out, but why does this happen?
There’s one BIG reason why students fail their PRINCE2 Practitioner Exam, and as an ex-examiner, I can shed some light on this bizarre exam scoring system.
It all comes down to a missing “secret ingredient” that not one in a thousand students or trainers/coaches know about…
It’s the biggest factor that determines whether you creep toward a passing score – sometimes making it, other times not, or whether you romp through with unheard-of pass scores and become a PRINCE2 Practitioner.
You see, this “secret ingredient” is so important to a student that no matter how much preparation effort you put in, or how deep your PRINCE2 Methodology is. If it’s missing, the examiner will never be able to give you a pass score.
And he will always have an unshakeable marking scheme to pass students who have this one “secret ingredient.”
On the other hand, when you know this powerful “secret ingredient” you won’t believe how effortless, logical, and bulletproof your PRINCE2 Practitioner Preparation can be.
On the face of it, obtaining the certification of PRINCE2 Practitioner seems a linear learning route. But it is not. This is why so many students take the PRINCE2 Practitioner exam and fail.
Worse, such students don’t know why, and those who provide your scores, don’t have it in their own interest to zoom in on where your weaknesses are.
They hide a deadly secret.
As an ex-examiner, I know that memorization is NOT the secret to becoming a PRINCE2 Practitioner (hey! You have the Official PRINCE2 Manual in front of you during the exam – don’t you?)
PRINCE2 Certification is all about comprehension – and can you practice what you preach.
The owners of the PRINCE2 Methodology, Axelos, provide this information to prepare for your PRINCE2 Practitioner Exam (and I quote directly):
“Read the manual from cover to cover”
Learn Today Lead Tomorrow!
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Here is far better advice.
Partner up with a personal PRINCE2 Mentor – your personal PRINCE2 Coach that takes the weight from your shoulders, dissects the wordy manual into key exam-busting chunks, and brings the PRINCE2 Method to Life.
Here is a simple example, that you won’t be able to “unsee” after you have read this– it seems so obvious, yet students stumble and fail because different key data is on different pages.
I’ve pulled these two pages together while reminding you that a product is described as a noun or outcome, whereas an activity is a noun and a verb.
And the PRINCE2 Product-based Planning Process is only the front end of creating a plan document:

Did you spot that the second step down in the left-hand diagram is the four steps in the right-hand diagram and ONLY refers to products? And that the last four steps in the left diagram are ONLY activity-related?
And could you spot if the examiner blurred the distinction between the Business Case reasons and benefits? IF the benefits are the reasons you undertake a project – why are they different?
I am an ex-examiner and have set such questions. I taught one of the named contributors in the front of the Official Manual to pass their Practitioner Exam.
A Mentor and Coach has the expertise and skills to find out what you don’t know – and fix it forever. All my Coach and Mentor students go on to become PRINCE2 Practitioners at their first try.
Do you want to join them?
Trust me, this is going to blow you away.
Becoming a PRINCE2 7th Edition Practitioner has a great ring to it (Right?) – not to mention a blast upwards to your career and salary prospects.
Dave Litten – Your personal coach and mentor
Find out more in my PRINCE2 Practitioner Personal Coaching Program
