ePRM vs Risk Prep

[Branko]

ePRM vs Risk Prep

[Anonymous]

Hello everybody,

I am a PRM candidate and I want to share some of my experiences regarding preparing exams and testing your knowledge.
Only providers of simulated online tests and questions I have found are ePRM coach and Risk Prep and I use them both.
I think that neither of these sites have no insight in the PRM pool of questions, and that questions are result of their “best guess” of what one should expect on the exam. So only thing you can have as the benchmark is the relevance of the author.
Best way to use them is to go through the tests once you covered all topics because questions are repeating, and after a while a deceiving high results may fool you that you are ready for the exam. Do not fall into this trap.
Both sites offer simulated exams but on Risk Prep I found useful “practice all questions” option because you can go through all question at once, or in any chosen interval, avoiding simulated exams with randomly selected questions with common repeating. This option does not exist in ePRM.
Also overview of answered questions is better than one in the kesdee because they can fit on one page (depends on how many questions you answered) giving you better insight of the topics you should give more time to study

What are your experiences in preparing for the exam?

[Anonymous]

I agree no one knows what PRMIA’s actual exam questions are. In fact, if these were to be known, then the designation would quickly become worthless.

If one keeps practicing the same questions repeatedly and after having seen the correct answers, you would of course get them right. But that does not mean you know the subject matter. You may be able to get that one practice question right, but should the question be presented in a different way, you would probably be as stumped as you were the first time. What is really important is conceptual and fundamental understanding of the subject matter, and unless you have that, test questions will not help.

WHen I look at the stats on how people answer the questions on Riskprep, their rate of correct answers is actually less than 50% when they try the questions the first time. Within two tries, it gets over 95%. That is because once you know, you know. If one has the answers to the real exam once, it is likely that the reaction will be aha – yes, of course, that is how it should be solved. But in the real exam, you only get one chance. And you never get to see the real answer. So the way to think about any sample question is to think about how you got it the very first time around, without the benefit of having seen the answers.

[Anonymous]

Hi there,

Is there any feedback with regards to how RiskPrep prep tests compare to the actual PRM tests? Do quite a lot of people come back saying they found the actual PRM significantly harder to the RiskPrep ones? (obviously stress aside)

I am mostly interested in Exam 2, my exam is in 10 days.

Thanks,

Mike

[Anonymous]

Mike,

The feedback I have received is mixed. Some folks have said that Riskprep’s questions were tougher than the exam’s, others have said they were easier, and yet others have said they were about the same level. I feel that the reactions have probably reflected the individual preparedness of the people writing, more than anything else. One of the challenges is that it is not possible to repeat any exam questions here (even if I were to know them), so the best one can do is to prepare at a conceptual level so no matter what the question, one could take a half-decent shot at it.

My suggestion would be to just prepare as well as you can, be as relaxed as you can in the exam so you can think coherently, and forget about the result. The only thing you have control over is your own preparation, and not the random questions that will be presented to you by the computer, and certainly not the result. Remember, this is one exam you are taking because you are choosing to, not because you have to. It is not often that we get this luxury, so relax and enjoy the journey.

Best regards,
Mukul

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I think RiskPrep.com is much better than ePRM.

Here are a couple reasons why
a) ePRM cost more (much more)
b) ePRM is written poorly and in many cases requires several reads just to understand the question (it is obvious that the questions were written by someone who is not a native speaker and they did not proofread/edit. When I asked, they said they were looking into hiring an editor.
c) ePRM’s software crashed on me many times. Imagine this…after you finish an exam, you click to see the results and the entire window closes. How much time did you just waste? And there were no way to retrieve the results. This happen to me after completing at least three 90 (or so) questions exams (the aPRM). Even after speaking with the lead tech in India, the problems were not resolved. Some of my colleagues didnt have these problems but I got a refund because of it.

On the positive side, the actual content is good, if you can get past the language.

In summary, I will not be using ePRM going forward. The exams here are $20 and they are very good.

Good luck!

[Anonymous]

Thanks for that. I guess i posted under the wrong thread. I know Risk Prep is a very helpful site and i wasnt comparing to ePRM. just getting stressed and wanted to assess whether me getting above 80% in the risk prep tests means i am on track to pass my exam next week.

[Anonymous]

For exam 1, I think if you get an 80% here on Risk Prep, I would feel pretty comfortable taking the exam.

[Anonymous]

Apologies again, but as i wrote 2 posts up, i am taking the 2nd exam first.

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