Timing was with her and she was able to take all the state exams shortly after graduating.
Again, each show has its own way of handling the process, but you will usually have to go through more meetings with producers and maybe even medical and psychological exams.
All IT qualifications are now taken on-line and are either adaptive exams, multi-choice or interactive assessments.
I recently heard a story about a young police cadet sitting his final exams at Hendon Police College.
He sailed through all the exams first time and helped to set up nuclear cardiology there in his spare time.