very sorry to hear that bro, but since you are sitting for AL exam, better to do according Asitha's suggestion and get a photo certified. Or I'm not sure if you can get a passport from one day service, it might work.
yeah, I have my personal experience, I can say that more than 50% have failed. Its just to fill out a method to print array elements in reverse order. Its not on the question paper, but in the interview.
For example some people failed to write a simple for loop at the interviews, so they are out from the interview. Also some joins the company and after 2-3 weeks leaves the company saying that the work is too hard for them. So we give some serious weight to institute.
you can't test a person 100% from interviews, when interviews are conducted they do not target very much at programming language skills but basically analytical skills are targeted. So when analytical skills are considered basically the institute is taken as the basics(but if you fail the tests...