SkillsTrain Reviews from Students

I am very happy to doing this course.It is very hard for me but I am trying my best with the help of my teaching team. Thanks to you all.

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I HAVE MANAGED TO UPGRADE MY COMPUTERS MEMORY FROM 128MB TO 512 MB RAM. I HAVE ALSO INSTALLED A GRAPHICS CARD, BECAUSE IT WAS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THE COMPUTER GAME THAT I HAD BOUGHT BUT AFTER INSTALLING IT ITS PERFORMING WELL. I ALSO UPGRADED AND INSTALLED A DVD RW. AT FIRST IT DID NOT WORK AS I HAD NOT SELECTED THE MASTER AND SLAVE, BUT AFTER READING THE DOCUMENTATION AND MY NOTES I SET THE NEW DRIVE TO MASTER AND THE OLD ONE TO SLAVE AND NOW ITS WORKING FINE.

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I started working life leaving school at 15 with no qualifications and just able to read and write and over the first few years I spent a lot of time getting to know the work. At 18 I started to work for what was then London Transport Executive on the london underground as a porter. Three months later I applied and became a guard and 6 months after that I took up my first post at High Barnet depot. Two Years later I got married and also put in for promotion to a driver. It was while training that I noticed that there could be a quicker way of doing things when problem occured on the train and so I challenged the teacher on this and am proud to say that they took on my suggestion and a matter of course. Once I qualified as a driver I took up my post at Kennington on the northern line. It was while there I got my first computer a commadore VIC 20 and got the computer bug.I started to teach myself thing such as binary, which at first I found totally baffling. However I stuck with it and eventually started to comprehend this and BASIC. With its peeks and pokes.I next progressed to the commador 64 and then started to learn how to address memory addresses and put colour onto the screen and move things about. The 64 VIC chip eventually gave and I replaced this removing the older one and putting its place a socket so that I could insert the chip rather than try soldering it onto the circuit board. After this I purchased an Atari 512 but did not like it much and so also purchased the Amiga. This was a brilliant machine for graphics.

I then decided to quit my job on the underground and go out into the field of computers and become a computer technician. At first I started to work for myself but this proved rather eventful and so I went into the contract market.
Getting my first break through working for an international law firm. This followed other contract work until the bubble burst and so I decided to look for and eventually found a full time job working where I am now.
I feel that for someone who left school at 15 and not been able to read and write properly to eventually find my true calling in the computer industry. thought the journey was long and hard I would say over all it has been worth the trip. To turn my hobby into a career is something I feel proud of.

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I have found the course very interesting and have enjoyed doing the TMA's..
I study hard and looks to me that the results are coming good...
I have had two 100% scores now and am hoping to carry on the same way with hard study and getting my well earned results..

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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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Still trying to work my way through this massive course, just finishing my CCNA and am about to start my CCNP. This in itself I think is an achievement.

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I have achieved 100% in my written revision aswell as 100% in my previous TMA; this is alongside woking full time and looking after my 9 month old daughter! Since taking this course I have become a head trainer at work for my department, and have managed to train all new and existing staff to a very high standard whilst using our companys' new computer system. I have managed to upgrade a friends desktop by adding a larger RAM and installing a faster graphics card.

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I TEMPORARILY DROPPED OUT OF THE PROGRAMME LAST YEAR FOR ABOUT 3 MONTHS. I AM INTO THE LAST 3 MODULES OF THE COMPTIA A+ CERTIFICATION. IN THE MONTH OF MAY, I WAS ABLE TO COMPLETE 3 MODULES, TMA 10, 11 AND 12. WITH THE CURRENT DETERMINATION TO SUCCEED, I BELIEVE IT WON'T BE LONG BEFORE I SIT THE EXAMS.

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Since starting the course I had some knowledge on using computers. But since I have started the course, I can now fully-understand what different things mean in and around Computers. Since I have started the course, I have been able to help many people with all kinds of Computer problems. I feel I am progressing quicky in this IT Course. Thanks.

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I have been able to achieve tremendous success in my course works despite the fact that I'm currently undertaking a degree course in computer and electronics Engineering. I've been able to combine both courses scoring high grades and also had to work to pay my fees for both courses since my parents were declared bankrupt. I've received great motivation from friends and my mentor. I've always had the believe that I was born for greatness and will always succeed in everything I do. Thanks

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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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Having worked in the mining industry since 1979 until being made redundant in 1986, I was unemployed for a period of time. In 1990 I returned to the mining industry until a severe accident in 1991 finally put me out of work for some 3-4 years. During this time my wife gave birth to our youngest son, who was born at 27 weeks, some 13 weeks premature. I soon realised that my prospects of employment had been dramatically reduced due to age and ability or should I say disability. It was at this time that I decided to take steps towards widening my prospects on the job market by retraining for a new career.

It was then that a leaflet about Skillstrain popped through the letterbox. I decided to give the number a call, and within a few days a representative was with me explaining the courses available and the qualifications it was possible to gain. I didn't need time to think, I was so impressed with what was on offer I signed up there and then. That was in July 2006, and now April 2007 I have almost completed my studies for the A+ and feel confident that I will pass the exam. I am really looking forward to starting the second part of my course, which is the N+, and hope to do as well with that as I have done on the A+. Thank you Skillstrain for showing me that life doesn't end just because of personal trials and tribulations. I won't say it has been easy, but what it has done is show me and maybe many other people out there that learning a new skill is more than possible.

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