"tightdeck" obviously has an axe to grind and I also note that it is his/her first posting on pprune. I could not possibly comment on his/her particular case but I would like to make some general comments as a very experienced TRI/TRE.
A large proportion of the pilots who do badly in the simulator will go to any lengths to find anyone or anything to blame. They seem to be quite incapable of looking in a mirror.
I have never ceased to be amazed over the years just how many pilots turn up for an OPC/LPC with a poor knowledge of SOPs and Limitations. This is simply quite unacceptable. A good knowledge of SOPs and Limitations is the absolute minimum that we need to do our job. Bad knowledge of either on a flight deck amounts to criminal negligence.