SkillsTrain Reviews from Students

I achieved a 100% grade in my last assignment which was completed on my return from hospital after brain surgery following a cycling accident. I feel very pleased with myself on gaining this mark as I am in constant pain even while taking prescribed medication (20 tablets/day). My recovery time is expected to take 6 months to a year, possibly longer and I am advised against spending too long reading or studying. I hope to maintain a high pass rate for the remaining part of my course but do not know how I am going to manage. I hope my ramblings are of some help in explaining my position.

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Hi, I started studying for the CIW certification at the beginning of February and have just completed section 1, part A, TMA 04. Previously I have been working part time as a PA and sold clothes on Ebay as I had lost my passion for design and being creative. I graduated with a degree in fashion design seven years ago and when I first started working in London as a buyers assistant, I use to get the train with a guy who was a web designer. I recently got in touch with him and it turns out he has his own web design company and after long talks he has offered me freelance work as soon as I have completed my course. His company has designed sites and corporate images for Arsenal football club, Madam Tussauds and Warner Brothers to name a few so I am really pleased that I managed to convince him that I was worthy of working with his team. I have now got all my confidence back and am finding the course really enjoyable and all my creative passions have returned so I now have to work extremely hard to complete the course with flying colours! Thanks for all the support given so far and I now have such a fantastic goal at the end too!

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I have additional information to provide regarding my application for student of the month. I am not sure if I mentioned the fact that I have sustained some brain damage due to my recent accident and I am having some problems with my memory function, also mobility problems and an inability to concentrate properly or sleep properly. I will be attending a hospital appointment in two weeks and hope to get an update on my chances of full or near full recovery at this meeting. It is unlikely that the doctors will be able to do anymore than tell me to be patient and allow my brain to heal itself. Thankyou for your time, I do regard myself as being very lucky to be alive and being able to function to the extent I can. I realise many of your students May be in a worse predicament than I am and have just received the next part of my course which I will attempt to study as best I can. Thanks a lot. Bye.

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I have been able to broaden my knowledge on web designing and other computing aspects

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I came to England not more than 1 year ago from more than 10 years living in Portugal left all my friends behind and still miss them, having no friends is difficult sometime I didn't feel like studying at all but due to May friends help over the internet (Emails, MSN messenger) I find myself studying just for the fact that one day I will be a Web-design and I will see my friends again.
It has been extremely difficult to get use to living in England, I had to get use to not knowing anyone or have any friends so in some ways this course has help me...
I hope to achieve my dream|
One day be a web-designer and be happy :)

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I started my CIW course in August 2005 and for the first 6 months I flew through the course gaining 85-100% everytime. I thought that I was going to finish this course within 9 months, but boy was I in for a huge letdown.

In January 2006 I started back on my course after the festive break. On top of this, for the past 5 years I have been caring for my wife who is visually impaired, as well as my two primary school children. I only just managed to get through the JavaScript and Perl chapters and my grades were failing. By April of 2006 I was ready to give it all up, if it was'nt for the support of my family I think it would have happened.

By the time August had come around again I have just competed Perl and was ready to get on the bandwaggon again all scyked up and ready to go. Then Server Administration came along and this is the hardest suject in the whole course. It took me the best part of 7 months to compete. On top of this our financial commitments were going out of control and so I had to get a part time job, so now I am juggling between my job, my course and my family.

It is now March 2007 and I have been reading some of the success storys on the student world Web site. These stories have given me the confidence to carry on and finish this couse. With the help of my family and the great help of the tutors at student world, I can now see the light at the end of the tunnel.

My best advise to anyone who is just starting out, is to draw up a study timetable and stick to it vigorously.

thank you for reading my story
James CIW

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Currantly I am managing to progress with my course whilst I am looking for work, having job interviews and setting up my own buisness/

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I have obviously gained a very good knowledge about IT and moreso get use to working on PC. My brain is now sharp and ready to assimilate correctly . The course has apparently helped me to move forward.

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Prior to this course, it was necessary for me to complete the ECDL because I was verging on computer illiterate. Working part time, and looking after young children, I found a void where I was not mentally challenged nor achieving as much as I had hoped to in my teens. I looked into many possibilites of career change and fell upon Web Design as it seemed to stimulate key skills I already possessed, fulfill a need to be creative and integrate and enhance skills needed in todays modern society. As well as working I teach human values to children on a voluntary basis. For this I also foresaw the need to be computer proficient as a necessity for future projects. At work my new skills will also be a huge benefit to the company where I work. With this in mind I proposed my study endeavours with a view to help the company develop a web site to the managing director, which was a tense yet successful proposal. I now need to follow this through. I have a time scale to adhere to and feel driven to stick to it.

In order to achieve this long term goal there is still a long way to go. However I know I am achieving because in areas of my life, people are asking for my help and advice wherever IT issues are concerned. This feels rewarding,great for self esteem yet slightly unbelievable!

All seemed to be going well and to plan for my time frame until recently where we had a death in our family. Our family life turned upside down and where optimism and willingness to succeed reigned, negativity and sorrow persisted. Simple tasks became tiresome and studying and my own priorities faded in to the background to make way for keeping the family grounded. We recently have moved home also which was extremely unsettling. The onus being on me, a lot of time has been spent on organising a smooth change in locality. This time though with my new IT skills, I was able to change a lot of mundane details online without fearing that the methods would be unaffective! I am aware of the benefits of being IT literate. I save on a lot of paper wastage which is great for the environment.

With time I have had to pick up the pieces whilst supporting the family which is emotionally difficult, but I have slowly began to revert to normality or the nearest to normality that can be achieved. I still do intend to complete my course and achieve my goals.

It has been a very personal achievment to be where I am now. I have more confidence in myself that I can achieve anything I want to, and for the first time in years feel ambition and thirst for knowledge feature strongly.

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Hi
This is the first time I have entered into student of the month. Just thought I would tell you about my progress so far. I started the web design course last September. This was probably a bad time to start as both my parents and parent-in-law's were going through a divorce, and this made home life quite difficult (as you could probably tell as my first results were only 65%). The year gradually got worse as my brother was very ill and passed away on Christmas eve, aged 30. It was originally his idea for me to do this course, as he knew I was no longer enjoying my current job and was looking for somthing different. I had most of January off and decided it was a good time to try and get back on track with this course. I have since re-sat the first section and passed it scoring 100%, my last two sections I have scored 95% and 80%. which were also classed as passes. I hope to keep up this level and try to pass this course ASAP. I know my brother would be proud of me if I did (and would like to take some credit as it was his idea), so that's what I intend to do. This is not probably what you would class as student of the month material, but I would just like to say you can do well at things if you put your mind to it, no matter what life throws at you.

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1.Scoring 93 per cent on assignment six.
2.Since starting part B I've finding it hard to drag my self away from studying it, I'm really enjoying this part of the course so much.

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I have now been doing the CIW with Skills Train for just over a year, Even though I find some areas hard I am still learing new things every week. I have found since doing the course I'm being asked to do websites for community centres and personal websites, which means the work is already coming in and I have not even done the whole course yet.

I have been slacking with my studies since after Christmas but I'm now going to try and get back on with doing the live training and also getting helping tips from Student World.

Thanks Guys!

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TMA ASSIGNMENTS FOR VERSION 5, WITHOUT ANY RE-SUBMISSION

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I have just restarted my course after having some personal problems. I have entered my second TMA after only 2 days and hope to submit my 3rd one as soon as I get the results back. I have also past my driver theroy test which I did not think I would do on the first try, I will also be sitting my driveing test in 2 weeks and hope to past that aswell.

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I REALLY DO ENJOY DOING MY COURSE. ALTHOUGH I AM FAMILIAR WITH THIS WORK, AND WAS A I.T STUDENT AT COLLEGE. I NOW HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO RECAP MY MIND ON COMPUTER SKILLS.

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HI I WOULD LIKE TO THANK EVERYONE AT THE SKILLS TRAIN AND SAY THAT I AS A STUDENT RECOGNISE THE GOOD WORK THAT YOUR DOING TO ASSIST US/ME WITH MY STUDIES AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT.
I am doing my CCNA but currently still on my N+ module which I believe I have been getting on well with, I work as a full time support worker where I work with four people with learning disabilities, my job is simply to support then in their day to day lives, I have to fit in my studing shedule with my job and my family at home, I got married in December and just adjusting to family life with one child I got enrolled in this to develope my career in computing and for a better future hopefully to finish the course and get a good job and give a good life to my new son. I am giving it my best I have done well with the tma's that I have done already. am sure with the support from the tutor team and the course material offered I will make it all the way and my dreams will become reality.

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I'm have just got a new better I.T job because prospective employers favour applicants who are studying with qualifications because they see an individual who is committed and ambitious. I think that fact that I am busy studying for my CCIE and MCSE helped me alot in gaining this new employment.

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I have been strugling on some of the work and by reading the course work and then trying the answers like a mock exam helps to find out what, I can rember so that I do not have to keep relying on the course work material.
Then when you think you have only to have a gues on the answer it will not work. Some times you think you have done bad and you then get to find out that you have got through to the next part, and you feel over the moon.

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HARDWORKING STUDENT, GET VERY GOOD RESULT.

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I HAVE SCORED 100% MARKE IN MY LAST TWO ASSIGNMENT.

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Since I started this course I known much more about computers, than when I started I had little idea on how to use email and I also did clait which I did not finish the course but now I can build a computer which I have already started, I have not finish it because I have't got the money for the material. I can install floppy disk drive, hard drive,and the buses with the motherboard and other devices which I bought in secondhand shop. I also spoke with a friend and he said to me he is sure I can sit for A+ Exams with the level I'm at. I have also gain more knowledge on this course on window installation, I'm really happy with the school and the team staff.

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Successful marks on my first 2 assignments

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