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Have you contacted them to ask for help?

I personally don't see anything wrong with sending you some books and giving you a couple of months to read them. what do you want them to do? Come and read them to you?

Sometimes I'm not sure what people actually want.
Are you stuck?
Are they not taking your calls?
Don't you know what to do next?

Or are you just sucked off that you've paid over the odds for something because you didn't do your homework?

 

I think what has happened is you though you could pay £4500 to take a shortcut which didn't exist. I guess it's immaterial whether the course was sold to you like this or you assumed this.

Just because the exam only asks questions on certain areas, you COULD get a question from any area of the modules, hence needing to know it all.

Kind of in the same way as when your actually working, a problem may arise from anywhere, and you will be expected to be able to deal with anything for which you are certified for.

 

Can we not 'go there' again regarding Training Providers please? We've been relatively angst free for a couple of months now - I can name three former regular posters who either never or very infrequently post here now because the forum was turning into an extension of BBC Watchdog.

 

Once again - and this isn't a direct go at you ms5er, there are plenty of others here who have done the same thing - we find ourselves with someone who has paid a load of cash to go with a TP, but isn't sure why.

They feel that they've been let down, but aren't exactly sure how.

They feel like they are missing something that they should have had, but aren't sure what.

Take the 'how are you getting on' phone call.
You're cross because you haven't had one.
Would it have helped?
Are you sitting at home stuck on chapter 2 thinking 'God, I hope they call soon to ask how I'm getting on, so I can tell them I'm stuck'?

Was the promise of that phone call worth a chunk of your £4.5k?

They've sent you training material and exam prep which are both accepted as good quality - so are you saying that you would rather have had a thinner book written by some geek at NITLC, photocopied on bog paper with the NITLC logo on the front?

To be fair, you've been mugged big time as you could have got everthing for 1/10th of the price yourself.
But you didn't.

The salesman probably did make you think that they would implant knowledge directly into your cortex without you having to do anything as vulgar as actual work, while fairies tickled your delicate bits and you wouldn't be the first person that it's happened to.

But as has been mentioned, if you are a long term CF member who has self studied before - what went wrong?


Oh, by the way, can we get rid og the NITLC Google ad? It hasn't changed for about two weeks and I'm getting bored with it. And no, I'm not going green again...

 

Sorry.

Quiet day. Nothing else to do.

 

I think if you were in my position you would annoyed to find that the books and study plan just don’t correlate each other

Am I stuck - No
Are they not taking your calls? - What calls I thought they would check up on your progress through email – like I said, I have not even received one
Don't you know what to do next - Of course, intelligent enough to

Nope I believed at the time, that I invested in my future with I thought to be a genuine and unique training provider, who believed that as a Student I got achieve an A+ N+ and MCITP Enterprise Support Technician certifications in just 3 months

 

For that much money, I'll call you up every day, mate!

You should spend as much time as you need to understand the material... whether that be 1 day or 100.

So... let me get this straight... you want study material from the same company that posts you books and can't be bothered to call you? What kind of quality would you expect out of it?

Trust me, you want the Meyers book. It's good stuff.

That said, you should have just gone with the retail book... which has the answers in it.

 

The books are big for a reason. You need to understand those concepts. Just because you were tested on a third of the book doesn't mean that the other two-thirds of the book couldn't have come up.

My advice: stop judging the quality of a book by its size (or lack thereof). Get the best quality book regardless of how small - or big - it is.

Know what? Amazon delivers books to your post too. :P

 

pwned.