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I have succesfully completed 54 credits required to finish the MBA graduate program from Robert H Smith school of business with a GPA of 3.73. The experience is immense and deep that I am afraid any simple statemement of how I now feel standing as a gradaute might underestimate the effort  and the persistance that it takes to complete the program. It took a total of four years, the first year for GMAT, TOEFL, and Applications and the following three years for the program itself. The first one and half years are for the core courses, and the rest half of the program is for the electives. I immensely enjoyed the electives and I found that they are much more of value  than the core courses. On the other hand , I am not sure if I would have appreicated the electives as much as I did if not for the core courses.  Staying with a cohort for one and half year helped me form some friendships which made forming project teams easier. Forming teams in the electives porti...

Background   Just gave PMP and passed with proficiency in Initiating, Planning, Execution, Control process groups, and moderately proficient in Closing Process group. Due to the dryness of the subject it immensely helped me to stick with a schedule, do the homework, do the finals as per the schedule and meet the “milestones” set .Once I did that I felt prepared for the exam preponed the exam by 1 week to enjoy the July4th holiday with the family. My 2 cents for exam preparation, I would see Scope, Time and Cost as the core areas for preparation and the rest as supporting areas. It does not mean they are any less important, but these three areas nicely flow from each other and should be treated as one coherent unit. PMBOK, while having its weaknesses in explaining few things, is actually pretty good read and I read the PMBOK once apart from other exercises and material s. These are the dates and scores of my preparation: Exam Date Exam Name Sc...