What the hell has happened to the 18th edition course

[Cazmac1]

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 ?

Seems like you got a bad instructor, I done my first BS7671 exam when I was at college learning to be a spark since then I've always done exam only. There is a certain amount of basic knowledge and the rest I get from past papers and using the book to confirm those answers. I feel you pain the only thing I would say is that those courses have test papers that are close to the real exam.