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As I mentioned last entry, Terri, our business manager here at HRCP, took and passed the PHR exam this past week. I asked her to share what she did to prepare, so here you go:

After studying 150 plus hours over the past four months, I passed the PHR exam!

My study method:

• I created a study schedule for myself by dividing the HRCP Program into small reading assignments, averaging 13 pages a day, which took less than one hour to read. I built make-up days into my schedule in case something came up. After reading each unit, I took the practice exam for that section.
• After I had read all 800 pages, I went back though each unit, not reading everything, but reviewing key points.
• I reviewed the flash cards and eliminated any from my stack that I felt I knew. I went through that process over and over and never did eliminate all of the flash cards. Flipping through cards was a nice change from reading.
• I made a list of laws and one of court cases and reviewed them several times.
• Two weeks before my exam I took the HRCP Comprehensive Exam and scored 80%. A few days later I took the HRCP Online Exam and scored 83%.
• One week before my exam I took both HRCI Assessment Exams and scored 86% and 83%.
• The few days before my exam I scanned each unit of the HRCP Program again, stopping to read those sections I had never seen before .
• The night before my exam, I reviewed my list of laws and cases and I flipped though the few (okay, more than a few) flash cards still in my pile.
• I was in bed by 10 pm, though I didn’t sleep all that well.

Going into the exam, I KNEW I didn’t know it all!

I wish I had put more effort into “learning stuff” on my initial read through the HRCP Program, rather than just reading it. It’s a lot of material to go through and I was crazy to think I’d read it all twice!

I was tempted to change my exam date and give myself more time to study. I’m glad I didn’t. Studying consumed my life the last month! Dragging it out would just have been more torture and I would have found myself in the same “cram” situation anyway.

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