What the hell has happened to the 18th edition course

[Zerax]

I feel you will be upsetting anyone in the teaching profession with your comments.

Surely it's up to them if they want to feel upset ?

 

[Electrics]

Smaller lectures are better as you get to have some discussion/debate.

Those are called seminars ?

 

[HappyHippyDad]

Those are called seminars ?

Maybe it was 30 years ago ?

 

[mickeyA]

So I decided to do my 18th edition after needing to renew my ecs card and they wouldn’t until I Did it.

My company decided to put me on the 4 day course becuase they thought it had a higher pass rate and they said they will go through the book and exam questions better

Well I’m into day 3 and the guy has literally just read the book out from page to page with a 400 slide PowerPoint giving a guide on main points on each page, has not gone through a single mock question yet and has said he won’t until just before the test. £699 to have a guy read to me for 3 friggin days?

Is this what the course is like nowadays, the 17th I did had about a day of going through the main points of the book and then doing mock exams while explaining the answers ?

Do we not go on these courses to be taught or reminded of the things we may have forgotten or don't use? If you dont work in the domestic, caravans, marina industry or solar/plugin charger side of the trade, then where does the knowledge come from to enable you to complete the 18th? Thats why you go on a course, to be taught and if a tutor isnt doing that, then its not doing what you are paying for. How would the 18th benfit those who work in an Industrial, Chemical or Oil and Gas background? Another money making racket?

 

[oracle]

I didn't bother with the course - waste of time. Just turned up, did the exam and left.

I've done that since the 16th edition. Don't like being taught like to find out for myself

 

[Lister1987]

How would the 18th benfit those who work in an Industrial, Chemical or Oil and Gas background? Another money making racket?

That Would be wherever in whatever standards (ATEX/CompEx most likely) it states that installations should comply to BS7671. Remembering of course that 7671 itself states that it can and if often supplemented by other standards (5839, 7909, ATEX [because my dumb --- can't recall its BSEN number ?]), you get thr idea anyway...

 

[Paul P]

I didn't bother with the course - waste of time. Just turned up, did the exam and left.

Would love to do just that as well

 

[Paul P]

I didn't bother with the course - waste of time. Just turned up, did the exam and left.

 

[mattg4321]

Would love to do just that as well

Why not do that then?

 

[Paul P]

Why not do that then?

Local collage will not let you.