RPSGT registration: cost, application, booking

1. Confirm your pathway and collect the proof: clinical hours with STAR completion, your healthcare credential, or your program documents. The rules are on the credential overview.
2. Check your BLS or CPR card. It has to come from a course with an in-person skills check, and its expiry date matters, because the testing window ends early if the card runs out.
3. Submit the application and the fee online. An incomplete application is sent back and costs a fee to resubmit, so upload everything at once.
4. Wait for approval; the review time is in the table.
5. Schedule with Pearson VUE: choose a center and a date inside your window.

Your window closes a year after approval or on the day your BLS card expires, whichever comes first. That makes the card the hidden deadline: a card that expires four months after approval gives you four months to test, not a year.

One attempt is $550. Possible extras run $25–$100 and are itemized in the table: a resubmission or refund processing charge, a reschedule after a no-show, a replacement score report. Failing means paying $550 again for the next try.

After you pass, the credential costs $250 at each renewal, every 5 years. The life-support class and, where your pathway calls for it, the STAR program have their own prices on top of the exam fees.

Moving the appointment costs nothing if Pearson VUE has 24 hours' notice and your window is still open.

If you cancel instead, telling both the board and Pearson VUE in time, most of the fee comes back; the table gives the amount. Missing the appointment without notice counts as a no-show: nothing is refunded, rebooking carries the no-show charge, and a waiver can be requested within a short deadline.