Developing a Plan for the Test

Based on respondent ratings, an examination blueprint, clarifying exactly how many questions from each domain and Task should be on the examination, was developed. Those domains and Tasks that were rated as most important, critical and relevant by survey respondents would have the most questions devoted to them on the examination.

Another aspect of PMI’s leading-edge examination development practices is introducing an enhanced examination development activity. Pretest questions will be randomly placed throughout the new examination to gather statistical information on the performance of these questions, in order to determine whether they may be used on future examinations. These 25 pretest items are included in the 200-question examination, but will not be included in the pass/fail determination; candidates will be scored on 175 questions. The pretest items will allow PMI to monitor the question performance better, prior to including the questions in the final databank of test questions.