Your exam involves two separate payments:
Exam Registration Fee
This is the driving school's exam registration fee for organising your exam. Your driving school account balance must cover this fee as well as all already confirmed driving lessons.
Cost Advance (Bill from TÜV SÜD)
This is the exam fee charged by the testing authority TÜV SÜD for conducting the exam. Once your exam authorisation (Prüfauftrag) has been issued by the Kreisverwaltungsreferat or Landratsamt, you will receive an invitation from TÜV SÜD to register in the Drivers Club | TÜV SÜD, where you can pay the cost advance directly.
Your exam appointment can only be booked once both payments have been made.
Example:
You do not yet have a driving licence and take the theory test for categories A and B in one day.
You have to answer the basic knowledge and the category-specific questions for category B and the category-specific questions for category A.
You will receive the following result after the exam:
Basic knowledge: 5 demerit points
Additional knowledge Class A: 7 demerit points
Additional knowledge Class B: 3 demerit points
This leads to the following consequences:
Driving licence Class A without success (5+7=12 demerit points)
Driving licence Class B with success (5+3=8 demerit points)
Although the basic knowledge is only tested once, the demerit points count for all driving licence classes (in this case A and B) that are tested at the same time.
In the next test for category A, you will be tested again in basic and additional knowledge.
You will therefore have to answer the basic knowledge again, even though you only had 5 penalty points in the first test.
In this case, the basic material only contains 10 questions instead of 20, because you have already passed class B in the first test and therefore now count as a previous possession.
In this case, category A is defined as an extended driving licence test.
The examiner will inform you immediately after the examination about the result.