In this concise instructional video, Helena Liu explains how to quickly memorize the five PMBOK 6th Edition process groups—Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring & Controlling, and Closing—using a simple mnemonic phrase: “In physical education, Mary cries constantly.” She outlines the sequential flow of the process groups, describes the cognitive basis for using associative phrases to aid exam preparation for PMP and CAPM certifications, and ends with a brief call‑to‑action encouraging viewers to sign up for a free exam‑prep course and subscribe to the channel.
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Hi there, so in this video I am going to teach you how you can memorize the 5 process groups in the PMBOK 6th Edition Guide in under 1 minute. So you do need to know the 5 process groups for your upcoming PMP, which stands for Project Management Professional, or your upcoming CAPM certification exams. So just as a recap, the 5 process groups are initiation, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing. So these 5 process groups kind of tells you the timeline of when events do happen on your project. So you start with initiating. Once you have initiated your project, you move into planning, then into executing. Then you would monitor and control everything to make sure that you are executing what you have planned to do. And finally, when all of your project is complete, you would close down the project. Now one quick way that you can use to memorize this 5 process groups is to use a phrase that begins with the same letters as these 5 process groups, and that short phrase is, in physical education, Mary cries constantly. The reason that you want to use phrases like these to help you memorize concepts in the PMP exam is because our brains work by association. So when you look at a phrase that you already know, so something like, in physical education, Mary cries constantly, and you match it with something that you don't know, which is the 5 process groups, your brains will connect these 2 together and it will help you memorize the 5 process groups faster. So that's kind of the science behind why this works. So use this phrase to jog your memory as to what the 5 process groups are. And if you want more tips just like this one, be sure to sign up for a free course at www.examspm.com/free. And as always, don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel for daily PMP and CAPM certification exam tips. Comment below and like this video, and we will see you Soon.
