Manager wants us to write pass a difficult exam, but the only way to pass is to study all my weekends and evenings. Failed once after month of studying. Is there any way I can get out of this situation?

(don't want to write what the exam is because it's a bit identifying).

My manager has a habit of getting ideas and without thinking them through, handing them off to his employees.

He wants my team to write an exam because he thinks it will look good to his boss (his boss is obsessed with the company that runs the exams). My team signed up. I could tell it was going to be hard (and I have 6 years of writing university exams). Because the exam is so difficult, I had to give up an entire month of evenings and weekends and I still failed. I also had to sign off on a bunch of privacy things I was super uncomfortable with to write the exam at home since test centers are closed with Covid. My whole team failed, so my manager said we could have more time to study but we had to rewrite it.

He can be flexible with a lot of things but not this one. I asked him if, if I fail a second time, I could do an alternative project that would demonstrate the project? He said no, everyone has to pass. He's even been encouraging us to cheat by looking at resources that we aren't supposed to according to the exam rules. I've had to abandon my own comfort with privacy, and now morals towards cheating. The exam has nothing to do with our job description and the certification expires after a year.

The toll of "being a student again" really harmed my mental health during a horrible pandemic time (it's hurting my country a lot) and the idea of an infinite loop of failing and studying on top of the 9-5 work of the job itself is such a downer and I really want to get out of it. I KNOW I can write hard exams (I used to write 5 in a span of 2 or 3 days every semester) so I don't think I'm being unfair by saying it's almost impossible.

I really want to basically say, look, I don't think this is reasonable and I don't think this helping the company. But I already tried and it didn't work and I'm not sure how to rephrase it. I was wondering if anyone had an experience with managers making demands of them that affect their free time and aren't related to workload.

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