Stage 1 Experience
Well,
Just came from stage 1 at heathrow house and boy, am I so NOT confident! Pat42 hit the nail right on the head when he said questions are not difficult but it's all about the time pressure!
With hindsight, I really underestimated this! The only paper I finished was the ATC motivation (30 questions in 18 minutes).
I was very slow on both the cubes and diagramming. The biggest surprise to me was the SDT questions. I wasn't anticipating any difficulty until I realised I was struggling to divide 2800/6. I can do this in no time anyday but my mind went into panic and I spent over 1 minute answering this simple question!
Anyway, my fate is out of my hands now so will let you know hereafterwards.
For anyone yet to do stage1, my advice is practice until you are very quick - you are going to need it!