So then I sat the Stage 1 tests last year and have just re-done them. I've noticed quite a few changes since last year.
This year there was no presentation, no talk from an ATCO, no DVD, no coffee and biscuits etc... it was just get in, sit down, do 4 papers and then leave.
I think I did quite well but I don't want to jinx myself. There was nothing more I could have done to prepare anyway.
The Motivational paper was about the same as was the cubes and the diagramming. they did however introduce a maths based paper which duplicated many questions from the motivational paper and introduced a few new ones. Don't think I messed that one up. All in all it was a very different experince for me compared to last year.
Good luck to anyone else who was at Heathrow house today.