SkillsTrain Reviews from Students

First of all,I do not have any knowledge about pc hardware colours,but after I started my course, I have learned a new skill which has help me alot,about my computer and as well as my internet experience I have gain from this course.

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I have completed two assignments and have two great results from them which I didn't think I would have got straight away. I hope I can carry on with the same results and if I don't manage to keep acheving high results then I know that my tutors are there to help me as much as they can.

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As a student of skillstrain you don't really know what you made up of until you are confronted with challenges.
My first challenge was choosing a computer for my uncle and being responsible for maintaining and ensuring that the computer is in good condition, I almost refuse knowing as I am still a student not yet a certified pc specialist. The pc came with a security software installed in it, he wanted to replace the security software with another which I advice him not to do. Few days later he told me about an error message that keep popping up, it has not made him enjoyed using the pc. After a brief questioning he finally told me he removed the anti virus software that came with the pc which I warned him not to remove. The bad thing about this error message is that even when you click ok it appears within the next few seconds, but with the knowledge I gained from my course materials I was able to solve the problem even when the manufactures support department could not do any thing about it. So far I have been able to solve two more problems due to human fault on the pc. Ever since then I suddenly developed this confidence of carrying out maintenance on his pc and my brother's laptop. As PC specialist confidence is a must have , if you don't have it then its not there but with skillstrain you are assured .

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One thing I must say I had some knowledge of networking and computing before starting this course. But after throughly studying the study material, my concepts are so clear now on this bases I have start working as Computer Network engineer and free lancer. Some times I need to work till late nights to fix the network problems. There are times I have worked for 14 hours a day to solve the problems related to severs and computers. At the same time, it is every important to continue study and submit TMAs time to time.
Actually all the hardwork pays off and I am continuously getting score above 90%. It was my dream to work as a network engineer, before starting this course, I was thinking that I haven't got enough confidence with my networking ability but now after just finishing half of the course, I am capable of working for myself which is amazing. I would like to say this is a significant achievement for me. I feel like I would continue to excel in the networking field.

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I've found employment already within the IT industry with scope to further my career and working full time, and currently submitted 5 tma's with 2 test scores of 85% and 3 of 90%, so I'm loving the fact that I'm getting the experience of being on the job as well as training.

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I started with skills at the end of January. During this time I was also looking for emplyoment within the IT inudustry. With great pleasure I have now found myself a job with a electronics company. With this great advantage I am able to work and study for my A+ at the same time and get the neccessary experience I need. Thanks to skillstrain I am able to study and work full time and achieve my full potential.

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I have achieved an understanding of how to make my computer run faster, I've taught other people how to download plug-ins, designed a myspace website for a friend. I find it easy to search for the specific information I need using different search engines, I have improved my knowledge of basic computer skills and intend to become very good at it .

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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.

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My wife gave birth to our daughter on 25th March, which has caused me not to be able to study anywhere as much as I need or want to, especially as our 2 year old son requires lots of attention. So it has been very gratifiying that I have done fairly well on some of my Tma's ( not 2 say that my thick head still holds all the info ......... )

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This last week my course material has come in handy on 3 occasions. 1st, at work we needed a new user account setting up on the server due to a new member joining us. I called the help desk and under the contract they do not support new user accounts free of charge. So I decided to log on to the server computer myself, access the Active Directory and create a new user template and e-mail account. I then went to the new terminal, logged on then went through the motions of telling the computer that it would need to be logged on via a domain not a workgroup. This worked a treat and so far is working 100%.

2nd, My old PC would not power up and after reading the section on motherboards and CPU's I narrowed the power up issue to be with one of the two. I purchased a new motherboard installed it, put my old CPU in and connected it all up, and it powers up well, But I needed to reinstall Win XP so I had to go into the start up menu before the XP logo is on screen to tell it to boot from the CD drive. I now have a spare fully working PC.

3rd. This morning I arrived at work to find that the e-mails were down. The internet would connect but not the mails. I told all users to log out so I could reboot the server. This fixed the problem and we had emails working before the IT support company got back to us with possible solutions.

All in all I am really pleased with myself and it just proves that if you want to learn something anything is possible.

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I enrolled with Skillstrain believing that I already knew what I needed to know in Information Technology as I already had a Diploma Certificate in Information Technology and was on an ICT Degree Course with the Open University, but I was proved wrong. I had been struggling to get a skilled job since, but now, I am proud to say that I just got employed by one of the biggest energy companies in the UK and worldwide. All thanks to Skillstrain for helping me to brush up my IT skills. I was able to pass both the written and oral interviews, which were mostly IT based. I am currently undertaking the N+, and soon, I will be starting the CCNA and CCNP. I intend completing them and sitting for the professional exams. Keep it up Skillstrain.

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When I started with this course, I lacked directional focus and couldn't submit my assignment regularly. With an ardent determination to finish the course within the normal stipulated time, I resolved last month to submit at least one assignment within a week. Currently, I am doing just that and now have to wait on my tutors to finish marking the previous assignment before submitting the next one which has been done few days ahead of submission.
I am completing the first part of the course this week, passing each of the assignments with good grade and with only one attempt!
I am so excited about this.

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I moved here from South Africa last year and got work in a warehouse. One night I was sitting and thinking to myself how much in life I took for granted. When the opportunity to study was there I never took it. Now I am thirty two years old, married and have two children. Life is going past me and I have nothing, but then I got the skillstrain leaflet throught the door and I signed up for the CCNP course. The beginning was hard but now I have done seven assignments and it is going very well. I always thought that a working man will have trouble studing, but to my suprise its not. It is more fun to study than to sit in front of the telly. Thank you skills train for giving all of us working people the chance to make some thing of our life and for showing us that there will always be a opportunity.

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I am on my third assignmant I started the course about a month ago I could only work a PC and use the internet but now I can set a new laptop up and my own PC which I thought that it would of take me about six months to do. On my first assignmant I got 53% and once I had resubmitted it I got 100%, then on my second assignmant I got 77%. I am now working very hard to get 100% again for my third assignmant.

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I throught that the computer hardware aspect area is a "no go" area for me, I even use to think those people who repair or assemble computers are wizards, but the way Skill Train has organised its course material is awesome. It has really broken everything relating to the computer hardware into simple understandable parts for me. Though I have not realy known how to carry out this arrangements practically but I now understands how this parts relate to one another. And I believe that at the end of my course, and after attending the practical class, I should have become one of those "wizards" as well.

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I WORK 12 -16 HOURS A DAY AS A DRIVER AND I AM AWAY MOST OF THE WEEK . IT HAS BEEN HARD FOR ME TO KEEP UP MY STUDIES AND SOMETIMES A BIT SLOWER THAN PROBABLY MOST STUDENTS BUT I HAVE STILL MANAGED TO KEEP AN AVERAGE OF ABOUT 90%. SINCE I DID'NT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE INSIDE OF A COMPUTER I HAVE LEARNED ALOT AND I AM STILL LEARNING.

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My main aim of joining Skill Train is to become a certified technician as well as own a small business of my one day - having said that I can now see my dreams coming through. I started by sorting out friends and relatives computer problems, but recently it has now spread to people calling me on the phone.The publicity I am getting which is down to friends that I have helped free of charge is making me happy and my toubleshooting skills have grown from strenght to strenghth.

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I enrolled as a skills train student on the A+ certification and N+ certification course in Januray 2007 and have also been looking for employment, since then and have been called in by many people for interviews which is really pleasing. Thanks to skills train I am now able to develop my skills and expertise further in the IT field and am able to progress I know what I want to do in the near future now.

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I have really gained a lot in the 4 weeks because I have been able to design a time table for myself, during which I was able to complete 4 chapters from the part A of my course(core hardware).
The course had really helped me in performing well at the university because most of the modules are computer based like embedded systems design which is closely related to the hardware course I am taking at skillstrain.

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I have worked in catering, selling Cornish pasties and I have had to decided to go for a better job. I went for a group interview to John Lewis, and I got a full time job on TV/AUDIO where I am selling computers. After 1 week I was told that I am a very good employee. I feel this is a great achievement.

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I left school with no qualificatoins and this course gave me confidence to study it gave me the chance to do a course that I always wanted to do.

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I am going to start this on a bad note in 1997 I was suffering with my back at work, my doctor sent me to hospital were I had a x-ray and was told that I had kidney stones, they put me on a drip for 4 days but at the end I had not passed any stones so I was sent home and told to go back to work.

I returned, but my work included a lot of lifting and after a few hours I was on the floor in pain and an ambulance was called which took me to a different hospital, they put me through a cat scan which showed 2 prolapsed disc's and I was taken in and operated on the next day, this put me down hill very quickly as I could not do my job anymore, but I found skillstrain and signed up for the A+ N+, this was going great until last year when I was diagnosed with IBS so I had to stop the course as I felt down in the dumps and thought why should I carry on.

I started going to a councilor who helped me get my head back on track, so I started the course from the start again thanks to skillstrain allowing me to do this, on Monday the 16th I am going into hospital to have a camera put down my throat as they have seen a lump in my stomach on a scan that I had, I just hope that it is not what I am thinking it could be. but after all these illnesses I am still going to pass my courses as they don't stop me from working on computers or talking to a client, so if you feel down in the dumps there is always something you can do to pick yourself back up.
At the start of my course I took on as many courses as I could one was to become a web site builder which I passed using frontpage, this will help me with the N+, but now my head is only on the A+.

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