Thanks for making me think back on past acheivements.

I've passed:
USFSA:
Preliminary Figures
1st Figures (took me three tries to get past this one)
Pre-Preliminalry Free
Preliminary Free
(All of the above Back in the '80s when they were the only tests going)

Adult Bronze Figures
Adult Silver Figures
Adult Bronze Free Skating
Adult Silver Free Skating
(Again back in the First Incarnation of these tests when they were easy (except for the Silver Figures, which again took me three attempts to pass, and then it was an End of Figures Gift from some very kind judges)

Pre-Pre Moves in the Field
Preliminary Moves in the Field
(I looked at the Adult Gold Moves, which my tests grandfather me up to and KNEW there was no way on earth I'd be able to do them without the background so I started at the very beginning, figuring that it couldn't hurt to learn them in case I ended up having to teach them at some point, which I have.)

Now since there's no much hope of my ever taking any more of the USFS tests beyond maybe Pre-Juvenile Moves, I've switched to testing ISI with my coach. I've done ISI FS 1, 2 and 3 and am currently waiting for approval from my rink's ISI director to test Figures 1 and 2.

So that makes what? - 17 tests total? Not too bad, spread out over 25 years, although there have been darned few in the last five.

Unless you want to count the four USFSA accountant's exams I've taken on the road to my regional appointment, but I didn't have to put on my skates for those! Then it's 21.

The only tests I've taken were the ISI ones up to Freestyle 1 that my coach gave me.

I haven't taken any USFSA tests yet. I'm going to go for pre-bronze this year, sometime between January and April (when my rink will have it).

My dance coach is trying to convince me to take my dance test at that time also. We'll see.

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Skate@Delaware
Ah, show skating!!! I do it for the glitter!

Child
Alpha-Delta-passed
FS1-FS4-passed
pre figure-passed
1st figure-passed
2nd figure-passed on 4th try
Pre FS, Juv Fs-passed on 1st try, don't think there was prejuv.
16 tests as a kid
between ages of 14-18

Adult38-45
PB, B, S -FS all first try
Gold-2nd try
Int. FM-2nd try
Novice-5th try
Jr FM passed
Int. FS - 2nd try
Dances 1st 10 all on first try
Currently 7 more on the adult finished pre silver on the standard.
All adult field moves on the first try-4
Standard track free dance: juv, int, nov
So 32 in total as an adult.

Will take Sr moves before 9/2/10.

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I've taken and passed ...

Moves:
Preliminary, Pre-Preliminary, and Pre-Juvenile.

Freeskating:
Bronze and Silver

I just started testing 12 months ago as an adult. Took adult pre bronze moves and free, bronze moves and free, silver moves and free, gold moves, Intermediate moves . Passed all on the first try and am taking gold free in November. Skated as a kid and tested up to Juv. level but that was a very long time ago !!!

I had three Freestyle tests - Freestyle 1, 2, and 3. (USFSA)

I passed two of them (1 and 2) but I failed the third(Couldn't do the bakspin properly! Grrr.) Right now I am in FreeSkate 2/3; combined because I do moves from both. I want to take the FreeSkate 4 test, though, I might pass.

I just passed a test last night!!! I'm pretty low in my tests so far.....but I'm working my way up.

As a teenager, I passed through a badge program, then tested pre-pre moves and FS.

As an adult, I've passed prebronze moves and FS and bronze moves and FS. I've never failed a test, out of the six I've taken, but I think Silver Moves may just get me that first "retry."

Total test taken: 34 and a half

Passed: 25 and a half
Freeskate: 6 and a half (pre-preliminary, preliminary, jr bronze, sr bronze, jr silver, sr silver, half of my gold))
Dance: 14 ( 3 pre-preliminary, 3 preliminary, 3 jr bronze, 3 sr bronze, 2 jr silver)
Skills: 5 (pre-preliminary, preliminary, jr. bronze, sr bronze, jr silver)

Failed: 9
Freeskate: 2(failed sr bronze, half of jr silver and half of gold)
Dance: 4 (europeen, american [twice ], harris)
Skills: 3 (sr bronze and sr silver [ twice ])

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~*Jenna*~ Newfie for life!!!

So I haven't logged in here in a very long time. Poking around my profile I found this thread that I started 4 years ago! I went ahead and updated my test stats and I really surprised myself! I've now taken 52 tests total in my 19 years of skating! YIKES!!!

Say the average test fee is $20 -- that's $20x52 = $1040 just in test fees! Add in coaching, ice time, competition costs, etc etc... and oh yeah, SYNCHRO! I'm afraid to even think how much money I've spent on this crazy sport!

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Denver Synchronicity

Passed: 32
Freeskate (5): pre-preliminary, preliminary, jr bronze, sr bronze, jr silver
Dance (17): 3 pre-preliminary, 3 preliminary, 3 jr bronze, 3 sr bronze, 3 jr silver, 2 sr silver
Skills (5): pre-preliminary, preliminary, jr. bronze, sr bronze, jr silver, sr silver, gold
Artistic (3): preliminary, bronze, silver

Failed: umm i don't quite remember but probably 10 tops

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2014 and 2018 Olympics here I come!

Skating, skating all day long, skating, skating all night long! May seem tiring to some people but not me, it's my life!!

Goals: Triple Loop, Novice Competitive, Sr.Silver Dances, Gold Artistic, and top 3 at Sectionals

Preliminary figure 1991

Moves:
Prelim (1992 or 1993)
Quit moves for a few years after that until they made us do them for synchro.

pre-juv (1996)
juv (1997)
intermediate (1998)
novice (1999)

Had to w/d from junior moves test in 11/09 due to injury, hoping to test in Feb or March.

Freestyle:
Pre-prelim (1992)
prelim (took twice, once in 1993, failed, quit freestyle, passed it in 2008)
pre-juv (2009)

**skipped pre-bronze, thought my pre-pre counted, turns out it didn't, got a call from USFS after my bronze, they let me slide.
adult bronze (2007)
adult silver (2008, took twice, first time was 2 days after ANs and my body was not cooperating)

Dance:
3 preliminary dances (1997)
3 pre-bronze dances (1997)
All 6 of those were on the same test session

3 bronze dances (1998)
3 pre-silver dances (14 and Foxtrot 1998 or 99), failed the European 3 times before I passed it in 1999 or 2000

Started dance again in 2007 after college:
Rocker Foxtrot--failed once and passed in 2007
Late 2007-2008 failed Silver Tango 3 times before I passed in August or Sept 08
Feb 2008--Passed American Waltz on the first try

Not currently working on testing any dances, not enough time right now for dance and moves and freestyle, so I'll go back to dance when I finish my moves.

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2010-2011 goals:
Pass Junior MIF test
Don't break anything

I've passed:

Standard Track Moves:
Pre-Pre through Intermediate

Standard Track Free:
Pre-Pre through Juvenile (the Juvenile was a mercy pass from some nice judges who knew me, and knew I was taking the test just to have it, not to compete it).

Standard Track Dance:
Prelim (and that's likely all I'll ever do!)

Adult Moves:
Pre-Bronze through Gold

Adult Free:
Pre-Bronze through Silver. Retried the Gold free twice, but since I have Juv I don't need to have the Gold free, although I'm debating trying it again soon.

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"Where are we going and why are we in this handbasket?"

Passed:

Pre-Preliminary MIF (1996)
Pre-Preliminary FS (1996)
Dutch Waltz (1996)
Canasta Tango (1996)
Rhythm Blues (1996)
Preliminary MIF (1997)
Adult Pre-Bronze MIF (2004)
Adult Pre-Bronze FS (2004)
Adult Bronze MIF (2005)
Adult Bronze FS (2005)

Retry:

Adult Silver MIF (2008)

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I've got mad salchow disease!

Wow! I have taken 61 tests total! I seriously never took the time to think how many actual tests (passing and failing) I've taken. Kind of cool to think about....Looking back, I have passed 41 tests and failed 20 tests between when I started skating in 1996 and now. Not bad, I guess.

ISI not counting alpha-delta . It took me a few tries to pass FS3, so call it 5
USFSA - 3

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It's all about the dress!

Moves
Pre-Prelim 1995
Prelim 1997
PreJuv 1998
Juvenile 1999
Intermediate 2001
Novice 2005
Junior 2007

Freestyle
Pre-Prelim 1995
Prelim 1997
PreJuv 1998
failed Juvenile FS twice and gave up (didn't really have my axel)
Adult Silver 2007

Dance
Prelim 1999 (all together)
PreBronze 2000 (all together)
Bronze 2001 (first two, then Willow with 14step)
PreSilver 2003 (Foxtrot and European Waltz)
Silver 2008 (Rocker Foxtrot May 2007, American Waltz Dec 2007, Tango Dec 2008)

Pretty proud to say that the only dance I didn't pass on the first try was the Foxtrot. Stupid mohawk!

Tests left to pass sometime before I die: Senior Moves, Adult Gold FS, Gold Dance.

ETA: counting retries, I've taken 34 tests. Wow!

Figures:
Prelim 1/79
First 11/79
Second 6/81
Adult Bronze 2/04
Adult Silver 11/04
Third (retry 3/05) 8/05

Freestyle:
Prelim 1/79
Juv 6/81
Adult Pre-Bronze 11/03
Adult Bronze 2/04
Adult Silver 4/04
Adult Gold 4/06

Moves:
Adult Pre-Bronze 11/03
Adult Bronze 11/03
Adult Silver 4/04
Adult Gold (retry: 8/04, 3/05) 7/05
Intermediate - 8/05
Novice - 2/07

Dance (all Standard Track):
Dutch Waltz, Canasta, Rhythm Blues, - Prelim 11/04
Fiesta, Swing Dance - 11/04, Cha Cha 3/05 - Pre Bronze - 3/05
Hickory, Willow, Ten Fox - Bronze 3/05
Fourteenstep 8/05 , European 2/06, Foxtrot (retry 2/06) 4/06- Pre-Silver 4/06
American 2/07, Rocker Foxtrot (retry 7/07) 5/08, Tango 5/08 - Silver 5/08

On the not-too-distant horizon are the Kilian and Junior Moves.

I'm proud of passing Int and Nov Moves on the first try

Before I die plans are to finish off Moves track, Gold Dances, and maybe eventually Int Freestyle - once I get a consistent 2sal and officially can surpass my kid-level skills in all areas

14 I think .

UK tests which are all same as kids tests as there is no adult track here.

Old style novice free test (meant I did not have to skate level 1 free when tests changed)

level 1 and 2 compulsory dance (solo) (novice foxtrot, rhythm blues, Canasta Tango Dutch Waltz)

level 1 and 2 variation dance (solo)(variation on RB and CT)

level 1, 2 and 3 free dance (solo)(skated on one test session but had to skate 3 times. I think now you only have to skate once at highest level entered but if you don't pass you don't pass any).

level 1 and 2 dance moves

Inter-bronze Field moves (equivalent to current level 4)

level 1 elements

level 2 elements and level 2 free

Would like to take level 3 & 4 compulsories and level 3 OD next

I've taken 12 tests with 3 retries.

Moves
Pre-pre March 2004
Preliminary retry June 2008 (on my birthday, *sniff sniff*)
Preliminary pass July 2008
Pre-juvenile pass October 2008
Juvenile pass January 2009
Intermediate retry 1 April 2009
Intermediate retry 2 June 2009
Intermediate PASS July 2009

Free
Pre-pre March 2004
Preliminary July 2008
Pre-juvenile October 2008
Juvenile January 2009

I had a busy year from June 2008-Jully 2009!

Adding two more to the list in March--hopefully two PASSES

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Moves:

Pre-Preliminary: 1994
Preliminary: 1995
Pre-Juvenile: 1996
Juvenile: 1998
Intermediate 1: 2008
Intermediate 2: 2008
Novice: 2009
Junior 1: 2009
Junior 2: 2010

Upcoming:
Junior 3: 2010 (Date TBD)
Senior: Before September 2010 hopefully!!

Freestyle:

Pre-Preliminary: 1994
Preliminary: 1995
Pre-Juvenile: 2008
Juvenile: 2009

Upcoming:
Intermediate: 2010 (Date TBD)

Dance:

I will start dance after I finish my moves tests.

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Skating Dreams

"All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you're not good enough or strong enough or talented enough; they will say you're the wrong height or the wrong weight or the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this. THEY WILL TELL YOU NO, a thousand times no, until all the no's become meaningless. All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly. AND YOU WILL TELL THEM YES." --Nike

I've taken 16 tests.
Adult Pre-bronze mif
Pre-bronze free
Adult Bronze mif
Bronze free
Adult Silver mif (5x)!!
Silver free
Standard Preliminary Dances (btw - I applied to be judged Adult on the dances but was judged standard - yay me, lol)
Dutch waltz
Canasta Tango
Rhythm Blues
Standard Pre-Bronze dances
Swing dance
Fiesta Tango
Cha Cha

WOW some of you guys' test records are so amazing!

I've been skating 3 years and started testing last December...so far I have passed:

Dutch Waltz
Canasta
Baby Blues
Swing

Took me two tries on my swing, my coach was completely peeved that they made me do it again, she was 100% sure I was going to pass, but what can you do! I don't know how you guys coped with having a lot of retries, I was completely DEVESTATED when I failed my swing. My dad took me out to get ice cream to make me feel better

Hmmm, some of you have a tremendous number of tests under your belt.

I feel so...inadequate.

I've passed only 3 adult moves tests - Pre-Bronze (@ age 54), bronze (@ age 55), and silver (@ age 56).

Never tested any freestyle though.

My reduced level of skating this year makes me wonder if I'll ever get to test gold moves or any freestyle.

Oh well.

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Bill Schneider

Lots of accomplishments here...congrats to all! I've only taken 4 tests, but I think it's not bad for a year and half of skating.

Pre-Bronze MIF
Pre-Bronze FS
Bronze MIF
Bronze FS - it was borderline.