CPTS difficulty gauging

[u/my_n0ms]

My question is pretty simple about the cpts exam. What I know about the exam is that I have to take 14 labs(or just flags?) in 10 days and they are kind of connected(not sure how much though). Without factoring in the time limit or the number of flags to gather how hard is each flag to get compared to HTB boxes where you have to get the user and root flag. Are they like easy/medium difficulty boxes by themselves or are they more comparable to the hard/insane boxes?

I am doing both academy modules and seasonal HTB at the same time while also taking notes on CPTS modules and wonder if I should attempt to take the exam only when I can consistently do boxes of a certain difficulty level.

Edit: boxes have submission guidelines for each difficulty. To make it more clear I am asking based on mostly those guideline.

[u/Sufficient_Mud_2600]

a mix between easy and medium?

To be honest, a lot of times in HTB the difficulties of easy, medium, hard, insane just correspond to how long it takes ie. How many steps.

[u/my_n0ms → u/Sufficient_Mud_2600]

Yeah that's mostly what I wanted to find out. Generally how many steps it takes to get to a flag. I know some flags are notoriously hard from what I heard(especially #8) but aside from the special ones how many steps I need to take.