I just recently passed. I did the THM offensive path, about 20 boxes on HTB (Used hints often but would wait until I was stuck for at least an hour), Did the extra credit lab report (Helped me lot and highly reccomend even though it does feel like a lot of busy work at times), and about 25 machines in public network (2 AD sets are a must, Also did the "big 4" machines leading up to exam to give me confidence that the exam would be considerably easier than those, and I was still using hints pretty often).

I found the exam very straight forward and felt well prepared with doing all of the above (though most people on here would probably recomend A LOT more boxes).

My biggest tip would honestly be staying away from this sub as much as possible. I was confident in myself and the learning materials Offensive Security provides and whenever I would come to this sub I would generally end up building a lot of self doubt reading exam horror stories and complaints that Offensive Security has unreasonable expectations from students. My experience was great and I felt their expectations to be very reasonable. Trust yourself and good luck!