Where Can I Take the PELLETB?

How testing actually works

The PELLETB is not a commercial exam you book at a test center. POST authorizes California law enforcement agencies to administer it, and those agencies run sittings on their own schedules — usually tied to their own recruitment, sometimes open to the public.

POST states that the test is only administered in paper and pencil format, and that it only allows authorized California law enforcement agencies to administer the exam within the state. There is no remote option and no out-of-state option.

POST does not publish a list of locations

This is stated directly in POST's applicant FAQs, and it is why this page is a guide rather than a directory. Any site presenting a tidy national list of PELLETB testing centres has invented it.

The practical route is to work from the agencies themselves: find departments that administer the test, check their recruitment pages for scheduled sittings, and register with them directly. Some agencies test only their own applicants; others run public sittings and issue you a score letter you can take elsewhere.

Which agencies administer, and which accept a score

RankHigh's verified agency pages record this distinction where the agency publishes it, because it decides your next action. An agency that administers the battery is somewhere you can book a sitting. An agency that accepts an outside score is somewhere you send a letter you already hold.

Both are useful, and the second is what makes one sitting go a long way: departments that administer the test are required to give you a letter with your T-score, and other departments may accept it at their discretion.

There is no POST fee

POST does not charge a fee for the test. Individual agencies run their own processes, so confirm any local requirement with the agency, but the exam itself carries no POST charge.

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