If the committee rejects the application, the examination fee is:

• A. Refunded
• B. Non-refundable
• C. Only credited to next exam
• D. Half refunded

Answer: (A)

The fee is refunded in full when the committee rejects the application. The idea behind this is fairness: if the application is rejected before you even sit for the exam, the service tied to taking the exam (administration and evaluation) isn’t provided, so there’s no reason to keep your money. It protects applicants from being charged for issues they didn’t control.

The other options don’t fit because a non-refundable policy would penalize applicants for decisions outside their control, crediting the fee to a future exam assumes you’ll retake under the same terms, and a half refund would be arbitrary since no exam was taken and no service was delivered.