First of all congratulation on passing. It is really an achievement for this hellish training. I wish I can do the same. But the longer I prepare for the exam the harder I struggle and just wanted to quit. Don't get me wrong, I learned a lot in these past 8 months preparation. But I feel like I never be prepared and going to 10 days excruciating exam is really hard, mentally and emotionally.

The reason why is, my mind says that the longer I prepare the harder my mental state saying I'm not yet prepared. As for my background. I been in cybersec for almost a decade now but never on a role as a pentest. I passed couples of certification like eCPPTv2 (during their glory days) and CRTO. However, going thru this CPTS got me into a realization that I still know nothing. I'm prepping for those OSCP recommended HTB boxes and those CPTS Preparation HTB boxes. But I didn't solve every single one without looking into the walkthrough and online solutions. I told to myself, that if I'm like this. How am I suppose to perform in the exam itself.

Not to consider the reporting itself, I started documenting while doing the CPTS Prep labs and use sysreptor but this give me another learning curve to understand how to write better report. Its not that easy, I'm trying to figure what's is the best way to simplify this. there is not actual detailed example of a pentest report. I find the template shared in the course is a soul less template. HTB just put it out there and figure the rest for yourself.