S.C. Code Ann. § 40-2-190 – Examinations

(A) The examination provided for in Section 40-2-170 must be held by the board at least once each year. The board shall advertise the dates of the examinations in a manner that it considers will adequately inform candidates who may wish to take it and that provides adequate statewide notice.
(B) The board may make use of all or any part of the uniform certified public accountants' examination or advisory grading service as it considers appropriate to assist it in performing its duties.
(C) A candidate for the certificate of certified public accountant who has successfully completed the examination required under Section 40-2-170 has no status as a certified public accountant unless and until he has the requisite experience and has received his certificate as a certified public accountant. The experience required is either:
1. (1) two years of accounting experience in public, governmental, or private employment under the direct supervision and review of a certified public accountant or public accountant licensed to practice accounting in some state or territory of the United States or the District of Columbia;
2. (2) five years' experience teaching accounting in a college or university recognized by the board; or
3. (3) a combination of experience determined by the board to be substantially equivalent to items (1) and (2); however, this experience shall not require a minimum number of hours in auditing financial statements.
(D) The board by regulation may grant a credit to a candidate for satisfactory completion of one or more parts of an examination given by the licensing authority in another state if at the time he took the examination he was not a resident of this State. The regulation must include requirements the board determines appropriate in order that an examination approved as a basis for credit is, in the judgment of the board, at least as thorough as that included in the most recent examination given by the board at the time of the granting of credit.
(E) The board by regulation may prescribe the terms and conditions under which a candidate who passes one or more parts of the examination provided by Section 40-2-170 may be reexamined in only the remaining parts, with credit for the parts previously passed. It also may provide by regulation for a reasonable waiting period for a candidate's reexamination in a part he has failed.
(F) The board may contract with third parties to perform administrative services with respect to the examination that it considers appropriate to assist the board in performing its duties under this section. The board shall charge, or provide for a third party administering part of the examination to charge, each candidate a fee, to be determined by the board.
(G) The board may prescribe dates and times by which an application for examination or reexamination as prescribed by the board must be submitted and the applicable fee paid.