Yeah, our knowledge test is a joke, I don't think I could survive a dozen writtens. But then I look at the ATPL questions thread and shake my head. You really need to know how far you'll move on a 500,000/1 chart if you're flying 378 knots?
Anyway, the hard part right now is getting the ATP CTP completed. There are only a handful of schools approved as of the end of December. It's about three classroom days and two days of sim running about $5000.