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THE SESSION I ATTENDED WAS GETTING MORE OUT OF STUDENT WORLD. IT HIGHLIGHTED AREAS THAT ARE VERY USEFUL AND SHOWED USEFUL TIPS I WOULD NOT HAVE KNOWN ABOUT OTHERWISE. THE SESSION RAN VERY SMOOTHLY AND THE SOUND LINK WAS GOOD. I RECOMMEND THESE SESSIONS.
-Stephen
Just starting this course has been achievement enough as I am getting close to being bankrupt. Certainly wasn't expecting to do that well from the course but I have been surprised at how much I am getting out of it so quickly and have been submitting assignments as quickly as I receive my marks from previous TMAs. I have just submitted TMA 5 and am now going to get on with 6.Thank you so much.
-Raymond
SINCE I STARTED THIS COURSE, I KNEW THE BASIC IN PC AND I COULD OPERATE MY PC AND MY FRIENDS PC IF IT HAD TROUBLESHOOTING. THEY SOMETIMES ALLOW ME TO USE THE PC AT MY PLACE OF WORK. I THINK I AM MOVING AHEAD, AND I KNOW WITH TIME I WILL LEARN MORE.
-Jerry
A student came to me asking for some help as her system went down. She was using windows 98. Due to the crash she had lost an important essay that she had to submit. I ran scandisk and there were lots of bad sectors and lots of .chk files. I opened each one in turn using notepad and saw that among the gobeldegook there were little bits of english - I went through every .chk file removing the rubbish and then saved the files as .txt. After completing this I handed the machine back. The next day she came back to me almost in tears as she was so grateful. she told me that I had managed to save about 95% of her essay. It left me feeling rather good and it was so very satisfying that I could have helped in such a way.
-Daniel
I am writing this on behalf of my husband Robert as he won't do it.
He has had a lot happen the last couple of years and has faced an uphill struggle due to a nervous breakdown from military service. His cofidence was on the floor and he spend time in isolation while he dealt with his condition. He tries so hard and although faced with adversity on he has rarely complained. Signing up for this course has taken alot of courage and his desire to acheive is growing. Its like I am getting to know the real person again. Thank you Skillstrain for beginning to show him he is worth something and that there is always light at the end of the tunnel.
-Robert
I have started up my own IT business, fixing and repairing pcs from hardware and software problems. While doing this I have managed to create a income to keep my head above water, while freeing up more time to study more of my valued CompTIA course. Doing this has put what I have learned into practice and helped me to relate to what the course is teaching me. In my spare time I have taught many people things about PCs including my parents how to us their PC which I have personally made for them, enabling them to communicate with me through E-mail and messenger services. It also helps them feeding their Ebay addiction.I have also taught my self web design.I am getting into the IT industry in many fields, but mainly concentrating on PC repairs and maintaining PCs. I am enjoying every bit of it and have found a sector of the working industry that I feel confident with while having a hobby at the same time. I am now on my third update to this course and plan to take no further updates as I now wish to complete and pass my exams in this course. The advantage however is that I would have studied this course three times.
Thank you.
-Mark
Having started on my A+ in October and having to look for a change in career due to ill health. I had managed to get to tma6 then realised that I wouldn't be able to finish before June due to my laptop being knocked over by my daughter and the screen getting seriously damaged. As we couldn't afford to buy a great big new "all singing dancing computer" I decided to build my own from components which obviously worked as I am sending this response to you.
-Thomas
What can I say I have not achieved what everyone else has achieved, but it is an achievement in its self starting the course and completing my first assignment, I am ready to do my second assignment on Wednesday and shall try my best to complete atleast 1 assignment a week from now on as I am now getting to grips with the knowledge and information there is to absorb.
-Ian
Having been the first person to have completed my MCSA/MCSE and know after serious health problems to continue with out never having to reset a TMA and also who is an unforgettable name amongst the staff. May I also add that there are times when I cry when I don't receive my following course work quick enough, although that is just me being anxious.
As they say "those who can DEAL those who can't TEACH" thanks to you guys I'm know doing both.
-Mark
Despite several mishaps with my course material and maintaining a full time job I have come through yet again and now achieved my third 100% TMA result.
I have now started a new job as an IT Security Officer for a large MOD establishment. The only way is up.
-Gavin
I always try my best with all my assignments and I feel I have committed myself to my work 100% I have got through 7 assignments in a period of time, and feel that is a great achievement and I will give 100% with all my coursework.
-Kevin
I feel I have achieved a lot since I started the course, I initially started my A+ course in 2005 but struggled really hard to find the time to study in between family life and work. Then personal problem seemed to mount up, my relationship unfortunately ended and my step father was taken ill( fortunately he's doing well now). I still persevered and managed to pass both my exams eventually to gain my A+ certificate. I feel I have a greater knowledge now and indulge in pc repairing for a hobby and am looking forward to an interview soon. Many thanks.
-Wayne
New very little about computers when I 1st started, I have worked my way round the course and managed to have a better understanding of computers, to unextent of troubleshooting and repairing some major problems that arise in my personal pc as well as at work.( a good example, today I have managed to deal with a major printing failure at work due to the spooler service being stopped. After several attempts to restart it, an error kept being displayed that the spoolsv.exe file could not be found in the system. I then searched the c drive only to realise that for some reason the file had been deleted from the C:WINNTsystem32. I managed to locate the file in a file which was hidden attrib, then copied and pasted to the system32 and at last the spooler system could now start.) Bearing in mind that I'm still in my early staged of my course,(i.e have not covered some topics) it is a great achievement that I can work around the pc confidently and can explore matters that I have not yet covered in my course due to the strong foundation that I have gained in my course. Not to mention that I came to uk 4yrs ago and could not speak English, so I have combined this course with other major NVQ's eg. English & Businness Administration.
Last but not least, I have manged to get on very well with my course at the same time running my own business(employing people & managing a business) which I started recently.
-Yvonne
The month of March has been not good for me.
I had a financial problem and wanted to stop the course. I had to think a lot about my situation. At the end, I realised that Skills-Train is going to help me a lot about my future. I made some sacrifice and I am very happy to continue my course.
Skills-Train helps me to understand Microsoft. Also, the tutors at the skills-Train are very helpful.
-Rosine
I am a new student and have only submitted 2 of my TMA; the first I got over 90% and the other, 73%. Although I have been in the field for quite a while now; repairing and networking systems, troubleshooting and assembling (cloning) systems. I hope to continue to work and study harder to achieve my aims and objectives.
-Adetola
I became A+ certified (on 4/06/07) I have also submitted four tma`s this month from my N+ coursework, where I have kept up a high standard of work with my lowest mark being 90%, I have managed to remain focused on my studies and goals despite my household resembling a hospital ward of late (firstly I sprained my ankle ligaments, then both my children catching chicken pox and my wife having a health scare as well), so time has been of a premium just lately but even by my own admission I think I've used it productively.
-Christopher
In the past month I managed to complete the last few TMAs of my A+ course and pass my examinations at the first attempt, before the 2003 objectives expired. I have also recently transferred a friend's computer into a new case following a faulty PSU and some overheating issues.
This has all been achieved whilst working full-time in a new job as an IT assistant, which I got due to the fact I was already enrolled on this course.
I am now looking forward to continuing with the Network+ material.
-James
In November 2005 I sat both CompTIA A+ Core Hardware and OS Technologies exams covering the 2003 objectives. I just managed to pass the OS Technologies exam but failed the Core Hardware exam. I was very disappointed but soon put it behind me and continued to study my N+ coursework. I had forgotten all about the Core Hardware exam until I received an email on 11th May from CompTIA reminding me that I had until 30th June to complete my 2003 certification.
As I had already passed the OS Technologies it would be foolish not to push for certification before the expiry date, so I booked the Core Hardware exam for 28th June. For a Month and a half I have studied like a man possessed, and today being the 28th June I am very pleased to see my report in front of me which gives me a candidate score of 872 !!
Happy days.
-Alan
I would just like to let people know that on 4/06/07 I became A+ certified, I would never have thought before I started my course that I would attain something like that I always thought that with having a young family and a full time job that I wouldn't have the time or energy to study but I proved myself wrong and I'm glad that I did, I'm now working towards my N+ and after that my MCSA, my best decision so far though was making the initial call to skillstrain and starting out on this new career journey, so if there is anybody out there who are having doubts about is it. Is it all worth it, then the answer is YES !!, its been a long hard and sometimes frustrating road but nobody ever said it would be easy, lastly I just want to thank the whole of the skillstrain team without whom I wouldn't have got as far as I have.
-Christopher
My brother's 13 year old son was getting very upset with his laptop, as it had been playing up for some time. Eventually it gave up all together and would not boot at all. My brother was going to through it away, so I asked him to let me have a look at it. With the troubleshooting & research knowledge I have gain whilst on this course I was able to track down the fault which turned out to be a bad memory chip slot. I put the memory chip in the vacant slot and the laptop came back to life. my nephew was very happy.
-Kenneth
In the face of adversity I have had more than my fair share of personal problems this year, including a long stay in hospital where I was unable to study and also suffering an industrial injury where I was laid up for the best part of 7 weeks also unable to study.
My ultimate goal is to become an MCSE and possibly cisco engineer, but I believe the A+ & N+ are an important starting base. This is why I am studying them before studying the MCSE. To me, as an IT professional, I would need to know about legacy OS and devices as these are going to be around for a while, not everything is windows xp or vista just yet!
My goal of finishing this 2003 A+ course and doing the exam was looking unachievable when I called skills train to ask what I can do at the beginning of June 07. After talking to the skill train staff, I saw a glimmer of hope, but realised the exam would be out of the question however alot of hard work would be required to finninsh the course by the end of June and allow me to get the 2006 materials for revision purposes and so I would not have to study the 2006 course in its entirety, thus enabling me to take the 2006 A+ exam sooner rather than later.
I modified my goals to make sure that the 2003 course would be finished by the latest 28th June 2007. I have studied many hours in succession to attempt to catch up and realise my new goal. It was an important part of the process for me to continue with the high marks as anything below what I had already achieved I would view as a failure.
My strategy was to make the TMA's like a full exam. I removed the TMA pages from the sections so I would not be able to see them, I gave them to my wife who I asked to act a my moderator. I proceeded to study all course material by reading the books through again and again also researching other sources of information such as verified and authoritative web sites.
When I was feeling confident I sat down and proceeded to start the TMA's. I needed to complete by hand without reference to any material except my study notes, once this was done I was confident enough to complete the TMAs on the disk and send them in.
At the time of writing this I just have the final TMA, 26a to do which I will be doing tomorrow morning 26th June 2007, before going to start a night shift at work. Job Done.
A big thanks to my wife who has been very patient allowing me to pursue my Goal.
-Roger
Being a parent, husband, employee and STUDENT, it was really hard work for me to get through my course, anyway I wrote my COMPTIA A+ EXAMANITAIONS and passed them with flying colors. Thanks to you all.
-Shepherd
