About Examinations

Once you’ve paid for a course (which includes the cost of an onetime exam for AXELOS courses) it’s up to you whether you in fact take the exam.
We highly recommend that you take your certification examination as it will provide you with globally recognised professional credentials that will help you in your career and prove to employers you have the knowledge and skills required to perform on you job.

Examination costs vary based on the Region you live in. Prices for your exams are determined by the relevant Examination Institute (PeopleCert or APMG).

The Examination Fees (shown at checkout for AXELOS / People Cert courses) are automatically calculated and are included in the cost of your course. EZY Skills passes the cost of these Exmaniation Fees directly through to you at the rate charged by the relevant institute.

Yes. The price you pay to EZY Skills (for AXELOS / PeopleCert courses) includes the examination fee (that examination institutes charge you, however we make the examination bookings on your behalf).

Both examination institutes (People Cert and APMG) charge significantly more for exams booked directly by the candidate. For example: PeopleCert charge us AUD244 for a PRINCE2 Foundation exam, whereas PeopleCert would charge you AUD501 for the same exam if you booked it directly with them.

We highly recommend that you do not make examination bookings directly with an examination institute.

After you pay for your course, which includes the examination fee, we will book your exams with the relevant examination institute after you email us at courses@ezyskills.com.au  to confirm that you are ready to take your exam .

The examination institute will then contact you directly to tell you:
– How to schedule your exams;
– What are their technical requirements for taking the online examination

PeopleCert require that you download their ExamShield software onto the device you will be using to take the exam. This may mean disabling some software (antivirus, virtualisation, etc).

APMG’s requirements are less onerous, and they don’t require download of software.

The most usual cause of delay is an issue with an incorrect email address or redirection of the examination institute’s emails to your email software spam folder

For example, PeopleCert, the fee is AUD36 to purchase a 6 months extension.

For APMG, the fee is AUD100.

These are indicative prices only.

If you don’t take action before the end of the validity period, you may have to pay the examination institute the full exam fee again.

Please email us at courses@ezyskills.com.au to check for prices as they vary by region and the fact that the Examination Institute may change their fees at any time.

APMG will not charge a fee if you reschedule the exam more than 9 days before the exam, otherwise they will charge you AUD100. If you cancel or reschedule an exam within 9 days of the scheduled date, APMG will charge you the full exam fee again.

Before you contact an examination institute to schedule your online exam, please make sure that you can take the exam on that date.

We recommend that you take your exam as soon as possible after you finish the course.

Note the prices indicated above are for indicative purposes only. Please email us at courses@ezyskills.com.au  or the examination institute directly to confirm current pricing. These prices may vary by Region or changes by the examination institute.

Our courseware is used by leading organisations globally. However, we are confident that if you devote the time required to “Learn Upskill Get Certified” you will have all the information required to pass the exam

Any ATO that guarantees Practitioner pass rates should be regarded with deep suspicion.

Employers will eventually become aware of such ATOs, probably after hiring people who were trained by these ATOs and finding that these people simply do not demonstrate the knowledge or competence that would be expected from the holder of a Practitioner certificate.

These employers will subsequently discount certificates acquired through these ATOs during the hiring process, and the holders of such certificates will have wasted the money they spent to acquire their certificates.

If an examination institute finds that the Practitioner exam pass rates of an ATO are suspiciously high, they will audit the ATO and potentially cancel their accreditations, which will possibly make certificates acquired through that ATO worthless.

This will give you some general guidance on which aspects of the course you might need to review.

Remember, you have access to your online course for 180 days.

Conversely, if your mark in a Foundation exam is less than around 65%, we would suggest that you do not immediately attempt the Practitioner exam, without a lot more preparation.