Since launch, the PMillustrated My Achievements page had a simple job. It provided a one-page view of which PMP ECO task badges you had earned and which were still waiting to be completed. That was useful, particularly when working through the modules in your own sequence, but it only answered one question: What have I completed?
This is now apparent from the medals earned on the launch grid, and so the new progress tracking features go much further. Instead of simply recording whether you have passed a quiz, the page now examines your quiz history and turns it into a visual picture of your PMP preparation. It looks at coverage, scores, repeated attempts, first-attempt performance, recent results, and performance across the three PMP domains.
There are quite a few numbers involved, but this is PMillustrated, so the numbers are turned into pictures. There are progress circles, colored task maps, trend lines, growth indicators, and even a three-dimensional proficiency skyline. If you enjoy looking for patterns in your performance data, there is now plenty to explore.
Moving Beyond Completed Badges
A completed badge still matters, passing a task quiz shows that you demonstrated the required level of performance at least once. However, two people can earn the same badge in very different ways.
One person might score 100% on their first attempt. Another might score 40%, then 60%, and finally 80%. Both eventually pass the task, but the evidence behind those passes is quite different. The first result suggests strong existing knowledge. The second shows learning and improvement, which is also valuable, but perhaps with less certainty that the knowledge is immediately available under exam conditions.
The new dashboard preserves simple completion information while adding this extra context. Rather than replacing the badges, it provides a richer view of the history behind them.
Exam Readiness Indicator
The most condensed view is the Exam Readiness Indicator.
This combines several signals from your quiz history into a single overall measure. It considers how much of the curriculum you have attempted, your adjusted proficiency across the tasks, whether your results are reasonably balanced across the three PMP domains, how well you perform on first attempts, and how stable your recent results have been.
It is deliberately conservative when there is not much evidence. Someone who completes three quizzes and scores 95% on all of them should certainly be pleased, but that does not tell us much about the other 23 PMP tasks. So, when curriculum coverage is still low, the readiness score is capped rather than allowing a few strong results to imply broad exam readiness.
As you work through more of the curriculum, the indicator becomes more meaningful. I would treat it mainly as a trend. If coverage is increasing and readiness is rising with it, that is encouraging. If coverage is increasing but readiness is flat or falling, the other visualizations can help explain why.
Domain Performance
The PMP Exam Content Outline is organized into three domains: People, Process, and Business Environment. The dashboard summarizes your current performance in each using circular indicators.
These provide a quick comparison between the domains. You might discover that your People results are consistently strong while Process is lagging. Alternatively, Business Environment might initially look weak simply because you have attempted only a small number of those tasks.
For that reason, the circles are shown alongside coverage information. A low proficiency score based on many attempts is quite different from a low-confidence result based on very little data. Seeing the two together helps distinguish between an actual weakness and an area you simply have not explored yet.
The colors also follow the same PMillustrated scheme used throughout the site: People is blue, Process is orange, and Business Environment is purple. So, the visual language of the dashboard matches the rest of the course.
Adjusted Proficiency
A single quiz score can be noisy. Sometimes we guess well. Sometimes we take a quiz immediately after reading a lesson and remember every detail. Sometimes we are tired, distracted, or simply misread a question.
To reduce the influence of any one result, the dashboard calculates an adjusted proficiency for each task. This considers your latest result, your recent results, and your first attempt. Repeated retries can also reduce the score slightly.
The idea is not to punish repeated attempts. Retrying questions is part of learning. However, reaching 90% on a first attempt is stronger evidence of current knowledge than reaching 90% after six rapid attempts at the same material. Adjusted proficiency tries to preserve that distinction.
So, where a raw quiz score tells you what happened on a particular attempt, adjusted proficiency provides a broader estimate of your current performance on that task.
Task Competence at a Glance
The Task Competence display shows all 26 PMP tasks together as a colored grid.
Each tile represents one task. Gray means you have not attempted it yet. Red represents adjusted proficiency below 50%. Orange covers 50% to 74%. Light green represents 75% to 89%, and dark green represents 90% or higher.
Most graphs feature hover-over deeper analysis, so hovering your cursor over the red 2.6 task here reveals it was for Manage Finance with a single quiz attempt scoring 0 out of 5. (Statistically, random button-mashing should have done better.)
This is probably the quickest way to scan your overall preparation. Large gray areas show topics that remain unexplored. Red and orange blocks attract attention immediately, while an increasingly green grid shows your preparation filling out.
I think this display becomes particularly useful later in your studies. Early on, having lots of gray tiles is expected. Later, when deciding what to revisit before the exam, a handful of orange or red tasks provides a much more useful study list than simply starting again at Task 1.1 and working forward.
The Task Proficiency Skyline
The most unusual visualization is the Task Proficiency Skyline.
Each PMP task becomes a column, and the height of the column represents your proficiency. Unattempted tasks remain as gray ground-level tiles. The result is a landscape of your current preparation, with stronger topics forming tall buildings and weaker areas appearing as shorter ones.
It is intentionally information-rich. Rather than simplifying everything into a single score, it lets you see the shape of your knowledge. Some people will probably prefer the colored task grid because it is faster to read. Others will enjoy examining the skyline and spotting the peaks, gaps, and uneven areas. I suspect I fall into the second category.
The skyline can also switch between Adjusted Proficiency and Raw Score. This provides another useful comparison. A task may have a high raw score but a lower adjusted proficiency because it took several attempts to reach that level. Conversely, a strong first attempt followed by a slightly weaker later attempt can produce a different pattern.
Neither view is the “correct” one. They answer different questions.
Looking at Progress Through Time
A current-state view is useful, but movement is often more interesting. The skyline can therefore be switched from Current to By Week or By Attempt.
The newest state appears at the front, with earlier changes behind it. This lets you see how your performance develops rather than looking only at where it ended up.
The historical views deliberately emphasize changes rather than repeating every unchanged task on every row. If a task remains stable for several weeks, there is little value in drawing the same column repeatedly. When it changes, that movement becomes visible.
This can reveal some interesting patterns. You might see an initially weak Process area steadily grow, while a task you thought was mastered begins to drift downward after later attempts. That sort of pattern is difficult to see from a list of scores but obvious when visualized.
Overall Performance Trend
The dashboard also plots every configured quiz attempt chronologically.
This is a simpler graph. Each point represents one quiz attempt, and its vertical position represents the score. Taken individually, the points may look rather messy, which is normal. Learning rarely produces a neat upward-sloping line.
What matters is the broader pattern. Over time, you would hope to see fewer very low scores and more results clustering toward the upper part of the chart. A difficult new topic may cause a temporary dip, while a run of familiar material may create a spike. Neither is particularly important on its own.
The value comes from seeing whether the overall distribution of results is improving.
Domain Trends
Overall performance can hide important differences between the domains. You may be improving rapidly in Process while remaining flat in People, or perhaps Business Environment performance is improving simply because you have finally started attempting more of those tasks.
The Domain Trends view separates these patterns.
Using the same blue, orange, and purple domain colors, it shows how performance in each area changes over time. Early in your preparation, there may not be enough data for the lines to tell you much. As coverage grows, the patterns become more useful.
This is another place where visualization helps. Looking at the overall average might suggest that your preparation is progressing normally, while the domain lines reveal that one area is driving most of the improvement.
First-Attempt Performance
One of the smaller statistics I particularly like is First-Attempt Pass Rate.
A first attempt provides relatively clear evidence. You have not just seen the same questions, learned which distractors to avoid, or remembered the location of a correct answer. You are responding using what you already know.
That makes first-attempt performance particularly interesting for exam preparation. The PMP exam does not let us answer a question, see the explanation, and immediately try the same question again. So, while repeat attempts are excellent for learning, first attempts provide a different type of evidence.
A rising first-attempt pass rate suggests that more knowledge is available when you first encounter a problem, which is a useful trend to watch.
Attempts per Passed Quiz
The dashboard also tracks Attempts per Passed Quiz. This is another small statistic that can reveal an interesting pattern.
Lower is generally better. If most tasks are passed on one or two attempts, your learning is translating into efficient performance. If the number starts climbing, it may indicate that you are relying more heavily on repeated attempts to reach passing scores.
Again, this is not a judgment. Some topics genuinely require more practice, and repeated attempts are often exactly how learning occurs. The statistic simply provides another signal about how you are progressing.
Drilling Into Individual Tasks
The visual summaries help identify patterns, but sometimes you need to see the underlying history.
The individual task details show your attempts, scores, pass status, and performance history. This is where a strangely colored tile or unexpectedly short skyline column can be investigated.
Perhaps you started badly and improved rapidly. Maybe you passed comfortably once but have since become inconsistent. Or perhaps there is only one attempt, so the system simply has limited evidence.
The high-level visualizations tell you where to look. The task history helps explain what happened.
A More Visual View of PMP Preparation
The new My Achievements page is intentionally information-rich, but you do not need to study every chart after every quiz. Different views become useful at different stages.
Early in your studies, I would focus mainly on coverage. As you work through more material, the Task Competence grid and Domain Performance circles become more useful. Later, first-attempt performance, adjusted proficiency, trend charts, and the Exam Readiness Indicator provide increasingly useful signals about how your preparation is developing.
All these visualizations are ultimately different ways of asking the same question:
What does my quiz history tell me about my current PMP preparation?
The old badges still tell you whether you completed a task. The new dashboard shows the landscape behind those badges, including the strong areas, weak areas, gaps, improvements, and occasional surprises.
For a site built around visual learning, that feels like a much better use of all the performance data that was already sitting there.
Results Radar Practice Exams
Also, remember we still have the Results Radar Practice Exams available to members when you feel ready for an exam dry run. These also pinpoint your strengths and weaknesses across the PMP curriculum to target your remaining study time. However, they are snapshots that do not show your learning progression per topic over time.