City and Guilds 2391-52, Initial and Periodic Inspection and Testing of Electrical Installations Reviews

Excellent apart from the waiting time for the practical exam

A registration process of practical test should be provide for enrolled student to input in advance, so that the practical test and the ert do not need to extend for 2 weeks.

Excellent facilities. Andy has been fantastic sharing his extensive knowledge. Very engaging and informative. Very glad I chose this course.

Allan was extremely well versed in electrical knowledge and was able to convey it and apply real life situations to what we needed to know. Excellent course.

Good course, very knowledgeable tutor, bit of a laugh to break up the tedious but necessary parts of the course. Overall very good

Good location not hard to get to through traffic and good free parking. A lot to cover but explained well. If you have done the 3 day 18th edition course you will be used to the pace and the amount of information to go over. Instructor knowledgeable and approachable to answer any questions. No longer providing lunch.

The course length is just about right, albeit that there is a lot to take in, in a short amount of time I feel that it is achieved well by the tutor. Mark Appleyard did an excellent job at conveying the information and went into a more in depth explanation of anything we were unsure about. Overall I feel the course is very intensive but does work well provided you have the previous knowledge and experience of testing.

Mock exams have should have an answer sheet with references to the page numbers where to find the answers. More structure in course is required, ie when a formula is being presented it would be good to write down all the page number where to find the relevant factors.

It's tempting to be negative about this, but the tutor did a very good job in the time available to him. The problem is that it's not really enough. It's five days, of which much of the fourth and basically all of the fifth is taken up sitting exams. So you've essentially got three days' teaching, with only a couple of hours dedicated to the practical assessment. Most of the contact time is devoted to prepping for the theory exam - all well and good: none of it's rocket science but the pass mark is 75% and C&G's questions can be equivocal and oddly worded, so don't underestimate it. You can see the problem, though: without previous, relevant experience you're not going to be prepared for the practical. If you're a practicing electrician or you happen to have done the test procedures before - even just once or twice - then it's fine. But if you're new to testing and inspection, then there's a good chance you're going to find yourself in the situation I was in: carrying out the tests and filling in the forms for essentially the first time in your life, under exam conditions with the clock ticking. It's not a nice experience!

I have never learned so much in such little time. Brilliant course and am so pleased with everything thankyou all so very much