Anyone undertaken the 2394/2395 around West Yorkshire and can recommend somewhere?

[JoWW]

Hiya I'm looking at doing my test and inspection certs in the next few weeks and wondered if anyone can recommend somewhere reliable to take them around West Yorkshire. I know it has a very low pass rate and its obvious some places are only bothered about the money not quality of teaching. It's a lot of money to spend on a course so want to give myself the best possible chance I can of passing. I've tried the obvious places like the local colleges but they're all evening courses which I can't do because of the hours I work & I have kids to run round after.

Thanks )

 

[vb6951]

Re: Anyone undertaken the 2394/2395 around West Yorkshire and can recommend somewhere

done mine couple of month ago. personally i think the hardest part is the written exam. the assessment centre/college has on control over the exam, cos C&G marking the paper and nobody knows the pass rate as every times are different. the practical assessments are fairly straight forward.

so i think it doesn't matter where you taking the exam.

 

[JoWW]

Re: Anyone undertaken the 2394/2395 around West Yorkshire and can recommend somewhere

Thanks. Its whether the teachers are any good too, heard some stories about tutors not being able to teach in a way people can learn from them and also things like the practical assessment where someones made a minor mistake and instantly failed without an explanation of what they've done wrong or how to do it correctly next time. I know c & g control the exam but you need to have the learnt the knowledge required to pass it is my thinking. I think its partly because I know I don't have the experience/knowledge, I understand the testing side but its the fault finding and inspection bit I need to work on

 

[vb6951]

Re: Anyone undertaken the 2394/2395 around West Yorkshire and can recommend somewhere

Thanks. Its whether the teachers are any good too, heard some stories about tutors not being able to teach in a way people can learn from them and also things like the practical assessment where someones made a minor mistake and instantly failed without an explanation of what they've done wrong or how to do it correctly next time. I know c & g control the exam but you need to have the learnt the knowledge required to pass it is my thinking. I think its partly because I know I don't have the experience/knowledge, I understand the testing side but its the fault finding and inspection bit I need to work on

i think you can't really relying on the tutor. 2394/2395 are suppose for experienced sparky with some knowledge about inspection & testing. colleges/centres only doing some revisions with you so you need to spent some time to do some study yourself. what's what i did anyway, cos i am newly qualified & not so experienced, but still fresh with the theories, still took me around 3 weeks good study and practice on the pass papers(2391).

practical is straight forward. cos 2394 practical only require a full EIC for a stupid board and no fault finding. 2395 require a periodic inspection testing report, expecting some faults on the board, and u need to identify the defects on some pictures as well.

good luck

 

[guest119]

Re: Anyone undertaken the 2394/2395 around West Yorkshire and can recommend somewhere

I was lucky and had a well known great tutor in 1997 with the 16th then 2391.
The practical/ workshop appointment was months after the paperwork was done.
He said on the day that C&G expect you to be able to do the practical on the way in to the workshop but that he would be happy if he was sure you could do it on the way out.
Kinda put your mind at rest.
A good tutor is a dream.


Boydy

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Re: Anyone undertaken the 2394/2395 around West Yorkshire and can recommend somewhere

Hiya I'm looking at doing my test and inspection certs in the next few weeks and wondered if anyone can recommend somewhere reliable to take them around West Yorkshire. I know it has a very low pass rate and its obvious some places are only bothered about the money not quality of teaching. It's a lot of money to spend on a course so want to give myself the best possible chance I can of passing. I've tried the obvious places like the local colleges but they're all evening courses which I can't do because of the hours I work & I have kids to run round after.

Thanks )

if you want i`ll send you some stuff on the old 2391....

should help....

and have you got GN3?

 

[Deleted member 72666]

Re: Anyone undertaken the 2394/2395 around West Yorkshire and can recommend somewhere

Give Eric Sheard a try! Home

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Re: Anyone undertaken the 2394/2395 around West Yorkshire and can recommend somewhere

yep stan...

well done mate...

i know Eric and he is good...

 

[JoWW]

Re: Anyone undertaken the 2394/2395 around West Yorkshire and can recommend somewhere

That would be great if you could send me some 2391 stuff. I have a GN3 book and also NICEIC guidance book on test and inspection its just getting it to sink in lol.

I have only actively been on the tools for around 12 months and still have a unit left to complete for my full NVQ which i'm on with at the mo, I was office based before as a project co-ordinator. I have some testing experience the only test i've not done is the earth rod testing, i'm quite confident that I can interpret the reads etc too its more the written exams that are worrying me.

Thanks for everyones replies much appreciated. I'll touch base with Eric )

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Re: Anyone undertaken the 2394/2395 around West Yorkshire and can recommend somewhere

so....you have done the time at college then?