At the moment I'm doing practice papers for the basic level HSK exam - to take it on 16 May (in the UK).

Can someone who's taken it tell me about the ordering of the reading comprehension texts on the real papers?

In the practice papers, for the listening section, the first section is the easiest, the second section is harder, the third section is at the highest level. In the reading comprehension section the texts are mixed up as regards level - easier and harder are in no particular order. Is it like that on the real paper?

This makes a difference to how I approach things as I'm expecting to only get level 2 (or might only even get level 1). I know it's a waste of time for me to try and spend a lot of time on the higher level reading texts - wasting time, in effec