It costs £50 to take the test. Only one lady was in the test centre to invigilate. I think the computer is programmed to 'mark' the answers, because the lady told my husband immediately whether he'd passed or not.
The aids to learning for the test were quite expensive (disk and several books) I'm not sure if there are lessons one can attend in person to help with the learning. As I'm a teacher, I found it fairly easy to 'train' my husband, but he did most of it himself.

We saw a Ghanaian couple in the test centre (whose native language is English) and the wife failed. She told me afterwards she couldn't understand the questions, poor soul.

I see that several more 'boat people' were found shivering on the shore of Kent at 8am yesterday. Local residents were very concerned (a child of about ten was among them) and rushed out with blankets and hot drinks.