I really want to thank you for this write-up. You described me to the "T". I am a slow learner, had to always study twice as much/hard as the next person to pass a class in school. Same with test taking. I have to study 2x harder than your average person to perform well on a test.
I took the 5th edition PMP test, did not pass, and scored very poor as well. So now I now started from the beginning with 6th edition. My target is the end of this month, but I think I am going to have to push out to the end of June as I am just not there yet. Failure is not an option for me on the PMP 6th edition.

This write-up gave some inspiration I didn't have before......................... Thanks to you writing this and thanks to lessons learned from everyone.