All Member Open Forum

I passed the CMRP by slowing down and really learning the five pillars, one at a time. I kept a simple three-pages sheet per pillar-key ideas, common mistakes, and how I've seen it play out at work. That made everything click together instead of feeling like separate buckets.

Mock exams weren't just score checks. I tagged each question by pillar, wrote a quick note on why I missed it (gap in knowledge, misread, or a tricky distractor), then revisited the topic and re-tested it a day or two later. The big shift was thinking in scenarios rather than memorizing definitions-what's the goal, what data matters, what's the next best step. Short timed sets taught me when to move on instead of getting stuck.

Happy to share the simple templates I used for the pillar sheets and the tag-and-why log if that helps.

I passed the CMRP by slowing down and really learning the five pillars, one at a time. I kept a simple three-pages sheet per pillar-key ideas, common mistakes, and how I've seen it play out at work. That made everything click together instead of feeling like separate buckets.

Mock exams weren't just score checks. I tagged each question by pillar, wrote a quick note on why I missed it (gap in knowledge, misread, or a tricky distractor), then revisited the topic and re-tested it a day or two later. The big shift was thinking in scenarios rather than memorizing definitions-what's the goal, what data matters, what's the next best step. Short timed sets taught me when to move on instead of getting stuck.

Happy to share the simple templates I used for the pillar sheets and the tag-and-why log if that helps.

Great achievement, congratulations!

I got my CMRP last Friday as well and what you are sharing is pretty similar to my way to study. Just to add something, I paid couple of Udemy courses to do a couple of mock tests, it was a great help, but I have to say that I was surprised when taking the test because the core of the test was focused on pillars 1, 4 and 5. So my advice to all people preparing the exam is to put special attention to these 3 pillars, we are doing different tasks in our daily routine which are more focused on pillars 2 and 3, so it is important to put special effort in the pillars I just mentioned. 

I hope this help future candidates on getting the certification at first try.

All the best

I passed the CMRP by slowing down and really learning the five pillars, one at a time. I kept a simple three-pages sheet per pillar-key ideas, common mistakes, and how I've seen it play out at work. That made everything click together instead of feeling like separate buckets.

Mock exams weren't just score checks. I tagged each question by pillar, wrote a quick note on why I missed it (gap in knowledge, misread, or a tricky distractor), then revisited the topic and re-tested it a day or two later. The big shift was thinking in scenarios rather than memorizing definitions-what's the goal, what data matters, what's the next best step. Short timed sets taught me when to move on instead of getting stuck.

Happy to share the simple templates I used for the pillar sheets and the tag-and-why log if that helps.