I took Reg on 11/30, and my experience was nothing like any of yours so naturally – I'm starting to freak out lol.
My 1st testlet was moderate, there were 5 or 6 questions I flagged and felt I had a 50/50 chance of getting right. The 2nd testlet, the first half of the questions felt harder but the last half were fine. I also had 5-6 questions flagged there.
I failed Reg twice already and part of my problem is not reading the questions carefully, so it took me 2 hours to do the MCQs. I finished SIMs with 5 seconds to spare.
The SIMs…ugh. So I had 2 that really stumped me. One of them was a question that I received before, the first time I took Reg. I'm not sure I got it right this time, it was on something from Individual Tax that I never studied in detail. And I'm really pissed at myself that I forgot about that question and never prepared. The others I felt maybe I had a chance of getting like 67-85% of the questions right on the SIMs. If I pass, I'm going to be right on the edge.
The 1st time I took Reg, I knew I failed it by the 2nd testlet. The 2nd time, I was hopeful cause I studied harder, felt more confident, and I ended up only improving by only 1 point and still failing (despite getting Stronger rating on MCQs, Sims I was rated Weaker).
This time I practiced mad SIMs. I probably did 100 simulation questions the week before the exam to practice, on top of redoing a ton of MCQs.
I am just praying I did enough. I'm so scared.
AUD - 78
BEC - 83
FAR - 76
REG - 84
Keep on Swimming!