I took the Chinese Dance Level Exam myself, after five years of studying Chinese Dance, after which I had zero foundation. I don't think it's the pedagogy pain hitting the book itself that's hard, because memorizing that little bit of information was pretty easy for me.
The difficult thing is: 1) zero foundation, soft openness is very poor, although the teacher's license does not require the teacher to soft openness to be good, but if poor to a certain extent, a lot of movements are simply can not do;
2) poor expression: before learning dance, I do not even know what is the "expressive", after learning dance, I have no idea, I have to learn to dance, and I have to learn to dance. After learning dance, I have been slowly grinding for so many years, only a little bit of performance, but when I took the exam, I still only got a "pass" in expression;
3) Terminology: For me to go to the exam after five years of learning Chinese dance, I still know more or less of the terminology, but I need to ask you to explain in detail what each word means in terms of movement, where to put the force, what the rhythm is, and what the lyrics are (in the case of a song), and then I can't do it. But if you have to explain in detail what each word means, where to move, what the power is, what the rhythm is, what the lyrics are (you have to sing and dance at the same time for the first to the third level), you still have to put in some effort.
As for ballet I to III, if you have no basic knowledge, I advise you to give up, it is basically impossible to get out of the test - except for those who are gifted.
Suggestion: you first go to the Internet to see the video, and then follow the action, and then let the people around you know a little bit of dance (only square dance does not count ...... because the teacher's license is about the norms of the square dance practitioners are almost none) to help you see, because dance this thing is not like mathematics, science and chemistry, there is a standard answer, whatever the process, as long as the answer to basically make the solution to the problem of ideas are right, but dance this thing, in general, but also have to have a good teacher to give you a foundation to work.