Exams schedule
Standard ordination exams home
| Spring 2023 Exams Cycle | |
| Senior Ordination Exams | |
| February 1 — Registration opens | |
| March 31 — Registration deadline | |
| April 1 — Exegesis book announced | |
| April 20–22 — Senior Exams | |
| April 27 — Exegesis Exam deadline | |
| May 1–5 — Reading period | |
| May 8 — Results released |
| Fall 2023 Exams Cycle | |
| Senior Ordination Exams | Bible Content Exam |
| July 1 — Registration opens | June 1 — Registration opens |
| August 31 — Registration deadline | July 31 — Registration deadline |
| September 1 — Exegesis book announced | September 1 — Bible Content Exam at 10:00 a.m. local time at testing site |
| September 21–23 — Senior Exams | |
| September 28 — Exegesis Exam deadline | |
| October 2–6 — Reading period | |
| October 9 — Results released |
| Winter 2024 Exams Cycle | |
| Senior Ordination Exams | Bible Content Exam |
| November 1, 2023 — Registration opens | November 1, 2023 — Registration opens |
| December 31, 2023 — Registration deadline | December 31, 2023 — Registration deadline |
| January 1 — Exegesis book announced | February 2 — Bible Content Exam at 10:00 a.m. local time at testing site |
| January 25–27 — Senior Exams | |
| February 1 — Exegesis Exam deadline | |
| February 5–9 — Reading period | |
| February 12 — Results released |
| Spring 2024 Exams Cycle | |
| Senior Ordination Exams | |
| February 1 — Registration opens | |
| March 31 — Registration deadline | |
| April 1 — Exegesis book announced | |
| April 25–27 — Senior Exams | |
| May 2 — Exegesis Exam deadline | |
| May 6–10 — Reading period | |
| May 13 — Results released |
For all the necessary information about online registration and administration of these tests, please visit the examinations section of this website.
dates for examinations
The Bible Content Examination is given twice yearly:
- The first Friday in February at 10 a.m. local time
- The Friday before Labor Day at 10 a.m. local time
The senior ordination exams in the areas of Theology, Worship and Sacraments, Church Polity, and Bible Exegesis are offered three times a year at the end of January, April, and September, usually on the last full weekend of those months. The PCC sets the specific dates so that the evaluation period by the readers will fall in the first week of the following months.
Test takers are eligible to take the Theology, Worship and Sacraments, and Polity exams only during the 60-hour period from 8:00 a.m. US Eastern Time on the announced Thursday of the testing period to 8:00 p.m. US Eastern Time on the Saturday of the testing period.
Test takers have nine (9) hours to complete a test once it is begun. Regardless of the time when a test taker begins an exam, the system will close access at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday; therefore, it is the test takers’ responsibility to begin examinations sufficiently in advance of 8:00 p.m. on Saturday for their full permitted time to be available. Candidates who may be taking examinations in more than one of the subject areas of Theology, Worship and Sacraments, and Polity need to be aware that the same 60-hour testing period applies to all three of these areas of examination. It is each candidate’s responsibility to manage her or his time to assure that any of these three areas of examination for which they are registered have been completed by the 8:00 p.m. close of testing on the announced Saturday of the examination period.
Access to the Bible Exegesis is opened to all registrants for that test at 3:00 p.m. US Eastern Time on the scheduled Saturday. Each candidate must have her or his completed responses on the exam administration site by 12:00 noon US Eastern Time the following Thursday regardless of the candidate’s time zone.