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The course is clearly laid out, the tutors and support staff are brilliant and very caring. Every member of the Simply Academy team are incredibly understanding and patient, which makes the entire apprenticeship a lot less daunting. I massively appreciated the effort and time commitment from Stacey Jones and Paul Allen respectively, their commitment to me gave me the confidence and belief I needed to follow through with the apprenticeship all the way to the end. Their efforts were beyond admirable.
I had great support throughout my apprenticeship from Stacey (before she left) as well as Paul. This support helped me achieve a distinction comfortably and I would definitely recommend Simply Academy to anyone else undertaking the same apprenticeship.
I found the course content very informative and would highly recommend.
A good couple of days overall. The one thing I'd change would be more student involvement rather than the trainer leading throughout. I'd have liked to be engaged with tasks and exam questions directly, along with break-out rooms and working alongside other students. At times it felt like three days of mostly listening, and I think I'd have got more out of it with that hands-on element. Overall a great opportunity to focus on exam content for 3 solid days rather than a couple hours as and when time permits.
Absolutely loved Terry and the course itself although it felt like there was not enough time to go through what we needed to learn in enough depth and with enough time for a lot of it to sink in. Terry was an outstanding trainer who knew everything about everything. Really fun trainer, that kept a very in depth course light hearted as much as possible. He explained things well so that key points really stuck and was truly exceptional. With regards to the course overall, I had hoped to be ready to do my exam after the course but it became very apparent after a few days that there was a lot of stuff I would have to go home and study in more depth over more time to allow it to sink in due to the time constraints of the course and moving along quick enough to cover everything whilst also accommodating for the varying learning speeds of the group. I think the fast track option is great for someone who has some existing experience in the financial industry with a base knowledge but for someone like myself that is coming in with no knowledge or foundation there was not adequate time within the course to feel confident to walk away and do the exam straight away. Anyone planning to do the course, I would 100% recommend it as the experience was great, Terry answered all questions and explained things in ways you won't forget certain key points, but allow for plenty of post course study time to really consolidate knowledge before doing the exam.
It was useful. My only issue is the lack of breaks. I cannot just sit and listen to someone talk for 2.30hrs without a break, my mind goes numb. Having only 3 breaks throughout the day for learning is not okay. I feel like incorporating a 10 min break every hour or more frequent breaks could make this workshop a lot more worthwhile
Good two day course, I had a good foundation of knowledge and have already gone on to pass the exams, there was a little confusion on a few of the subjects matters with in the group and trainer, plus a couple of the exam specimen questions were incorrect.
The trainer is energetic, helpful and has made the workshop a much more pleasant and fun way to learn. However, I don't think the course content or the study text in close match with RO2 exam, that's a pity.
Very good pre-course content, ZOOM/TEAMS content was good.
It was good and I really enjoyed it - I liked how it was a smaller 'class' - Really liked David and thought he explained everything in depth. I really liked the last hour on the Tuesday when we went into smaller groups to answer questions - it was nice to have positive and constructive feedback from David.