deadcactus
Posts:
38,266
Registered:
Dec 27, '01
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 37,437
User ID: 577,555
|
Subject:
Most you've ever paid for a standardized test?
|
|
Make me feel better. Just got robbed for $1700 for a standardized test and hoping surely someone else has taken it in the pants worse than me. There goes my fun money for awhile...
-----signature-----
'member dat?
True dat.
|
|
Link to this post
|
the_great_ontex
Title: This is what cool looks like
Posts:
31,805
Registered:
Feb 13, '12
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 806
User ID: 1,438,403
|
Subject:
Most you've ever paid for a standardized test?
|
|
Think I paid maybe $250 or something for the FE exam
-----signature-----
(none)
|
|
Link to this post
|
notmforce2k
Posts:
96,434
Registered:
Oct 9, '11
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 2,235
User ID: 1,430,866
|
Subject:
Most you've ever paid for a standardized test?
|
|
My boards will be approx. $650 or $850, depending on if I get one or two certifications.
-----signature-----
(none)
|
|
Link to this post
|
FineYoungCannibals
Title: Top of the food chain
Posts:
74,939
Registered:
Jul 14, '03
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 73,108
User ID: 822,330
|
Subject:
Most you've ever paid for a standardized test?
|
|
yes, turns out i'm mildly retarded
-----signature-----
 FYC
|
|
Link to this post
|
Gaevren
Title: Wat do?
Posts:
18,183
Registered:
Sep 15, '04
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 17,906
User ID: 967,012
|
Subject:
Most you've ever paid for a standardized test?
|
|
Holy carp what test costs almost $2k?
-----signature-----
There are no automatic doors, just very polite ninjas
|
|
Link to this post
|
deadcactus
Posts:
38,266
Registered:
Dec 27, '01
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 37,437
User ID: 577,555
|
Subject:
Most you've ever paid for a standardized test?
|
Gaevren posted:
Holy carp what test costs almost $2k?
A bulls--t trumped up one that charges $500 for the written test that is actually relevant and an extra $1200 for a practical test to make sure foreigners wanting the license speak English and understand that we don't stone women for sex outside of marriage here...
-----signature-----
'member dat?
True dat.
|
|
Link to this post
|
Fozzie_Bear
Posts:
48,479
Registered:
Dec 20, '01
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 47,515
User ID: 558,887
|
Subject:
Most you've ever paid for a standardized test?
|
|
eh, paid for my license test to be a real estate appraiser
-----signature-----
The Oatmeal Butterscotch paired with a Snickerdoodle
turned my cynical penis into a happy vagina
Then after an Oatmeal Cranberry and Double Chocolate,
it made my new vagina spontaneously sing the Trolololo Song in an elevator.
---AkagiyamaMissile
|
|
Link to this post
|
Aerlinthian
Posts:
66,222
Registered:
May 7, '01
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 65,491
User ID: 94,919
|
Subject:
Most you've ever paid for a standardized test?
|
Nice racket! 
-----signature-----
(none)
|
|
Link to this post
|
Sith_Mauler
Posts:
24,642
Registered:
Dec 21, '02
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 24,438
User ID: 750,977
|
Subject:
Most you've ever paid for a standardized test?
|
wtf field are you going into?
that there is a $2k test you gotta take?
also that kinda of stuff you can claim if you itemize you taxes
-----signature-----
Well I ain't first class
But I ain't white trash
I'm wild and a little crazy too
I have seen a lot of things in my life time.
That is why I walk the line I walk.
|
|
Link to this post
|
Ungabhunga
Posts:
759
Registered:
Aug 7, '08
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 754
User ID: 1,313,359
|
Subject:
Most you've ever paid for a standardized test?
|
|
Not for a test but I did pay about that in "fees" to join a roofing union 20 years ago.
-----signature-----
Grimdiegn_the_Gimp RIP
Grim451 RIP
DDO Knights of Siberys Cannith
|
|
Link to this post
|
Hawkson
Title: I AM AN ASSASSIN (SHH)
Posts:
30,565
Registered:
Oct 23, '01
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 30,208
User ID: 478,685
|
Subject:
Most you've ever paid for a standardized test?
|
Bar Exam - $649, Laptop Fee - $145, Bar Prep Course - $3500.
At least the test wasn't as expensive as yours, but the prep work/time was ridiculous.
-----signature-----
Hawkson, Esq.
Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
|
|
Link to this post
|
Brother_Tempus
Title: Patriot
Posts:
48,624
Registered:
Jan 9, '01
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 48,310
User ID: 61,868
|
Subject:
Most you've ever paid for a standardized test?
|
|
$600 for IQ and Academic Assessment for my oldest
-----signature-----
You win ACF, dude - Osmenthe
BT is usually right - Onslaught
i think we need more BT on page 1 - FighterUSAF
Yep, BT is right - Aerlinthian
Got guns & ammo? Food? Precious metals?
|
|
Link to this post
|
TheUnholyGhost
Title: Mr. Subtle
Posts:
29,652
Registered:
Apr 4, '00
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 28,967
User ID: 18,463
|
Subject:
Most you've ever paid for a standardized test?
|
I have not taken this personally, but it's the most expensive I know of:
Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert
$350 for the written exam per attempt, and $1500 for the lab exam PER ATTEMPT. No one ever passes the lab on the first try, so you'll need to budget at least $3000 for the lab.
Not to mention, if you don't live in San Jose, Raleigh, Dallas, or Chicago, you have to pay for the flight, hotel, and rental car as well. Those are the only 4 locations in the US that administer the lab exam.
-----signature-----
|
|
Link to this post
|
Sith_Mauler
Posts:
24,642
Registered:
Dec 21, '02
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 24,438
User ID: 750,977
|
Subject:
Most you've ever paid for a standardized test?
|
|
I have had some expensive certs in my old field of work, but it was always picked up by who ever I was employed by.
-----signature-----
Well I ain't first class
But I ain't white trash
I'm wild and a little crazy too
I have seen a lot of things in my life time.
That is why I walk the line I walk.
|
|
Link to this post
|
TheUnholyGhost
Title: Mr. Subtle
Posts:
29,652
Registered:
Apr 4, '00
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 28,967
User ID: 18,463
|
Subject:
Most you've ever paid for a standardized test?
|
Sith_Mauler posted:
I have had some expensive certs in my old field of work, but it was always picked up by who ever I was employed by.
Ditto, they pick up the classes, exam costs, etc.
Just for someone trying on their own, that's an insane amount of money for a piece of paper that says you know what you're doing.
That's why so many people just take the written exam and call themselves "CCIE Candidates".
-----signature-----
|
|
Link to this post
|
Shazami
Posts:
23,382
Registered:
Mar 22, '02
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 23,098
User ID: 660,458
|
Subject:
Most you've ever paid for a standardized test?
|
$140 
GRE, ha ha...
-----signature-----
(none)
|
|
Link to this post
|
myxomatosis8
Title: amateur zookeeper
Posts:
18,778
Registered:
Jul 14, '01
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 18,441
User ID: 251,097
|
Subject:
Most you've ever paid for a standardized test?
|
|
My respiratory therapy exam is $700, but I'm sure that'll go up by the time I write it in 2 years.
-----signature-----
If you're flammable and have legs, you're never blocking a fire exit.
|
|
Link to this post
|
deadcactus
Posts:
38,266
Registered:
Dec 27, '01
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 37,437
User ID: 577,555
|
Subject:
Most you've ever paid for a standardized test?
|
I didn't include the cost of review books, question banks, and transportation/housing. Probably closer to $3k with those. At least the pass rate is high, I've gotta give it that. I think that's balanced out by it only being the second test in a three test series though.
I couldn't sell my car for enough to cover the costs. That's depressing...
Eh, I'm just bitching.
-----signature-----
'member dat?
True dat.
|
|
Link to this post
|
Dark_EternalFF
Title: Official ACF Turd
Posts:
85,900
Registered:
Nov 8, '02
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 84,100
User ID: 736,311
|
Subject:
Most you've ever paid for a standardized test?
|
|
Can't remember what the SAT/ACT cost to take. Haven't paid for a test since then
-----signature-----
Max Fox (AC), Zygran (WoW, SWTOR) "We poison our air and water to weed out the weak! We set off fission bombs in our only biosphere! We nailed our God to a stick! Don't fk with the human race!" DE/Mr Pants 2012 
|
|
Link to this post
|
Onslaught.
Title: I've always wanted a title.
Posts:
56,272
Registered:
Feb 13, '01
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 55,112
User ID: 68,094
|
Subject:
Most you've ever paid for a standardized test?
|
Do blood tests count?
Nah... I'm highest for me so far has been 80 or 90... GRE, I think.
I'm going to set up a date for the ASBOG soon though, and I think it's something like 400.
-----signature-----
"Mmmmrmmrrrmrrmrmrrrrmrmrrmrmrmrrmrr"
-GinsuWife
|
|
Link to this post
|
Jezza_Belle
Title: =^.^=
Posts:
62,779
Registered:
Feb 24, '01
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 61,759
User ID: 70,100
|
Subject:
Most you've ever paid for a standardized test?
|
|
$10? I only ever had one class that insisted we take our tests in the testing center, and pay the bitch that oversees the place $10 for her trouble.
-----signature-----
( - Y - ) These ones are not real, just FYI. Follow my progress... http://tweetlbug.deviantart.com/
|
|
Link to this post
|
Anebriated
Title: I should be reading a book
Posts:
37,996
Registered:
Jan 27, '03
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 36,373
User ID: 764,038
|
Subject:
Most you've ever paid for a standardized test?
|
|
250 -mcat, don't even remember how much emt-b cert was. probably less.
-----signature-----
(none)
|
|
Link to this post
|
Rhodoman
Posts:
81,876
Registered:
Jun 14, '01
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 80,454
User ID: 154,069
|
Subject:
Most you've ever paid for a standardized test?
|
I think my SAT's were $50.
Rho
-----signature-----
Rho is correct. - Varece
Venit hiems quidquid Latine dictum sit altum viditur
Referring to illegal aliens as 'immigrants' is the same as referring to shoplifters as 'shoppers' - Dorvinion
|
|
Link to this post
|
Gaevren
Title: Wat do?
Posts:
18,183
Registered:
Sep 15, '04
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 17,906
User ID: 967,012
|
Subject:
Most you've ever paid for a standardized test?
|
|
For me the most I've ever paid was $250-ish for the Security+. We've paid a lot for my husband's various IT certs, though. Some have been picked up by his employers but most we've just paid for out of pocket and taken the tax deductions. (A note about that though- it's not deductible unless you're already employed in the field you're certifying for.) He got his GCIH a while back and has to renew it, so his employer is picking up the cost of that (since having the cert is a requirement of his job). Yay!
-----signature-----
There are no automatic doors, just very polite ninjas
|
|
Link to this post
|
