Thoughts
Venue
ITIC occupied the entire floor of the office building, and was overall very well organised. If you do arrive early, expect to be asked to start early, as they essentially operate on a first come, first served basis. Exams are conducted in batches of 16 people at a time, in a socially distanced room. Unlike some other venues, this was not done in booths, but rather each person had their own desk, and arranged in rows facing forwards. They operate several testing rooms, and essentially operate every 15 minutes or so. My appointment was meant to be 10:45, but ended up starting at 10:30. There are no observers throughout the entire exam.
Registration took about 5 minutes, and they didn't ask to see the confirmation email.
Overall great venue, very quiet, little to no disturbances.
While Pearson Vue says that they do not provide earplugs, they actually did have some there that a couple of other people used, but YMMV.
Also, the whiteboard and marker they give you are NON ERASABLE, so judge whether you need another sheet and ask beforehand (I ended up doing this)
Exam
General Examination Thoughts
Exam ended up being mixed difficulty overall for me. VR was especially hard in comparison to the mocks that I had done, DM was largely straightforwards, QR was more straightforwards than the mocks, and AR was middling in difficulty. However do be aware that everyone sits different questions that's pulled from a question pool, so again, YMMV.
Bringing earplugs was super nice, as it made everything just that much quieter.
I know that its been mentioned earlier in the thread, but
know your keyboard shortcuts! They are super useful in maintaining your momentum without having to reach for the mouse.
If you didn't know what they are, they're
Next Question: Alt+N
Previous Question: Alt+P
Flag Current Question: Alt+F
Calculator: Alt+C
I also found that using the right alt key was much easier than using the left one, especially when going through AR and rapidly switching questions.
For those of you worried about font size, I can confirm that a mixture of low-res monitor and larger font made it very easy to see, about the size of font 16 on a 1080p screen.
I was also thrown off somewhat by the weird question order, where some types of questions I initially answered popped up near the end, especially on AR, where A, B, Neither questions were scattered throughout.
Verbal Reasoning
I found this section to be harder than the mocks I've completed, and end up getting a lower score than the mocks. Generally most of the answers can be found by matching them to corresponding sections in the passage, but I received a large number of conclusion questions which was harder than most of the comprehension stuff.
Decision Making
Largely straightforward, was easier than both mock B and C. Consisted mostly of logic puzzles that did not require much inference, but also had a couple of conclusion questions thrown in, which I was less sure of than others. Venn diagrams were pretty easy, draw them out if you need to.
Quantitative Reasoning
Most important note: BACKSPACE WORKS
Use your numkeys to operate the calculator, makes doing calculations much much easier. I found less conversion questions than the mocks had, but was still somewhat time-pressured as there were a number of statistics related stuff. Some questions are easier than others, remember to pace yourself. I nearly ran out of time doing the last few questions because I was too focused initially.
Abstract Reasoning
My worst section, since I suck at it. In line with the difficulty of Mock C, most people should be able to cruise through a lot of the questions pretty easily.
Situational Judgement
Sorry did I say AR was my worst section? I meant SJ. Finished early, double checked my answers, and still got a remarkably low score. Not sure how I feel about that
Hope this helps some of you at least, if you got any questions I can try to answer to the best of my abilities.
Congrats!
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