CSC exam - does the 5-year experience requirement actually get verified?

I've been in physical security consulting for about 4 years and I'm trying to figure out whether it's worth sitting for the CSC exam now or waiting another year to hit the formal requirement. The IAPSC website says 5 years of security consulting experience is required but I've heard the verification process isn't particularly rigorous. I don't want to misrepresent anything but I also don't want to wait a year if I'm already content-ready.

On the knowledge side, I feel reasonably prepared. I've been doing practice questions for about 6 weeks and I'm scoring 68-75% on most domain areas. The legal liability and expert witness sections are where I score lowest — around 58% — because that content isn't part of my day-to-day work.

The exam is 150 questions over 3 hours, which works out to about 72 seconds per question on average. That pace feels comfortable from timed practice. The security survey and assessment domain is where I'm most confident, which is fortunate since it's apparently one of the heavier-weighted sections.

I'm also trying to find anyone who's taken the exam in the last 18 months to get a sense of how current the content is. The study materials I'm using are from 2022 and I'm not sure if there have been meaningful updates, especially around cybersecurity integration into physical security consulting.