In this day and age it would be so easy to have the exams conducted on a computer and for you to get an instant mark. Why the CAA have to dither about with paperwork and allocated seating and all the rest of it is beyond me.
I was also not too impressed to sit an exam that was near impossible to complete and then when everyone failed it, I was told it had been annulled. Obviously this was three weeks later, becuase the CAA do everything at a snails pace. I've been given a free resit which will count as a first time sittting but I haven't been told how to apply for it. No doubt they will reject my application form if I send it in without payment.
The CAA is not cost efficient, or efficient in any way, but pilots on the whole seem to be of the smile-while-kicked-in-the-balls personality type, and that explains alot in aviation.