Simply Academy Reviews

Overall the apprenticeship was helpful, especially as someone completely new to the industry. There was plenty of support from Simply Academy, in particular from my Tutor, who was always on hand to help. Certain parts of the course seemed a bit unnecessary at times, but overall this was a very helpful course.

If it wasn't for my tutor I would have really struggled

Really enjoyed my journey with Simply Academy. My tutor, Darren really helped me throughout my journey and massively helped develop my knowledge of the financial services industry. Would highly recommend to any student.

Thank you so much to Simply Academy, I dealt with Steve Bloor, he was great and always kept me in the loop, was always there to help with any extra questions I had. So happy with my qualification. Thanks guys!!

First of all Terry was a really knowledgeable, lovely guy. I liked how he told story’s to bring the subject to life. I liked the content of the course, what I struggled with was I found it very tell. The course description said it would be interactive however I didn’t find this the case. Maybe for future courses, placing learners into virtual breakout rooms with scenarios or questions to work through. Perhaps the trainer could ask direct questions instead of all of them being airshot to keep the learners engaged? These are just examples where I think it could be improved, however I and my other 3 colleagues that were on the course did pass our CeRER and the course definitely helped that result. Many Thanks

Simply Academy provided me with support throughout my apprenticeship, especially during my preparation for the CF1 exam. I attended a one week revision course hosted by Simply Academy which helped me to reinforce my knowledge and ask any questions that I had. My apprenticeship tutor was very approachable and I felt that I could contact her if I ever had a query about the coursework or any of the content that I was studying.

Terry was a personable trainer with a wealth of experience and a genuinely lovely person. A think a bit more of a set up of ensuring people know or have access to the zoom tools and know how to engage virtually in whatever way works for them on their device. Would have been good to get more engagement with the others in the course and make us work together to learn. Also more engagement in the quizzes (rather than just a few people answering every question?). Loved the specimen papers and the pre course workbook was good too

Having just passed CeMAP 2 & 3, I can honestly say that I couldn't have done it without the help of Peter. His knowledge was very good, and his delivery was excellent. I have to disagree with 'Anonymous A' on Nov 30 about time management, as some students themselves were late arriving, either at the start of the day, or from breaks during the day, so this did impact on the actual teaching time.

The delivery window was too short. It was reduced from 5 days to 4 due to the Queens funeral, however, 5 days would also have been too short a time to deliver the content.

I found that the course was overall very good and helped me gain an understanding about the industry, however I do think that some of the assignments were very repetitive and I found myself writing similar things over and over again. Maggie was brilliant throughout - she was always very supportive and helped me out as much as she could.