Sign up and exemptions costs

I was hoping to start in December, first professional exam.

I’m have yet to sign up though, and I was told these would be expensed back to me. I’m flat out broke at the moment so would need to wait until I’m paid the end of the month to register, I just started this job after university.

I also need to then pay exemptions. Which would mean I need to expense that to my employer in the next payroll month.

It seems like by the time I’m signed up and get my exemptions it will be at least the end of August! Which means all the tuition courses in my area for December would have already started. I could do March but the timetable for tuition for March exams is so much more squished

Did anyone else have a similar issue like this and did you find a way around it?