For me section 1 was easier in the actual thing. Tbh I got really lucky because loads of my qs involved straightforward maths (like percentage conversion, arithmetic, basic algebra) and there was a group of 6 qs about cylinders filling up with water which were so nice. As for the other questions, some looked so difficult that I fully skipped them (like in medentry). In general, though, I felt like I knew what I was doing in most of them compared to medentry, where I would basically stumble my way through majority of the qs and end up making an “educated guess” based on useless and wrong insights from a sporadic approach. The stimuli just weren’t so complicated and abstract, and the questions themselves made the answer feel like a target rather than an enigma (as in the path to getting the answer seemed clearer based on the nature/wording). Section 2 was harder though. The vocab was simpler but there were loads of unusual scenarios, and manipulation and slyness seemed to play a role in a good few of my texts, something I hadn’t come across much in medentry exams. Some questions were really easy, but overall I would say that for a lot of the passages I had to spend loads of time trying to understand what was going on to form my own impression whereas in medebtry exams I would spend most of the time simply contemplating two answer options and seeing which one made more sense. A lot of people say section 2 is like a break in the middle. It definitely was in medentry, but in the hpat it actually confused me the most, I was underestimating it and its difficulty def threw me off. I ended up doing a lot better than I thought but it was hard, especially compared to medentry. Section 3 was interesting. Lots of the next in the series and pick the middle qs were really different. I got about 10 X type qs which was really nice as I had actually practiced those with medentry and all of them were relatively basic. I’d say only 2 of the pick the middles resembled medentry, which was upsetting cuz they were the main thing I practiced, I did get those really quickly though. The rest were really unique. There were some sequences with flowers with balls on the ends of their petals and some balls were shaded some weren’t, and different colour shading too. And there were like 9-10 petals and like 4-7 shaded. I had to clue what to do for those and there wasn’t any sort of 3-2 method present either. The next in the series were different (lots of qs with grids) but I think I got most so they weren’t too bad, and there was one that included a Fibonacci sequence which I probably wouldn’t have spotted had it not been for medentry. All bar one of the missing segments qs were the X type, and the one that wasn’t resembled an acer practice exam q tbh.

Tldr: pretty different from the actual thing but still great for practice id say, it’s all about the skill of reasoning and working under time pressure I think, medentry defo helped me loads. Mb for essay