Hi all.
Couple of things I want to throw out there.
Firstly... I am planning on doing the dreaded 2391 next month.
But, while upgrading my 16th to the 17th last week, the training centre advised me that the 2391 is being phased out any day now and being replaced by 2393 and 2394 (I think that was the numbers).
Apart from the pain-in-the-bum factor of now having to do 2 courses to get the same result, it also will probably mean more money.
So... I either do the 2391 before it gets changed (by the way - congrats Dave on passing)... but then have a course that is going to be 'the old one'
Or I wait a few months and probably pay a little more and have the spangly new courses adorning my CV.
As far as I am aware, there are no time limits to these courses - 2391 etc. But saying that, I know someone with a 2391 course under their belt from 7 years ago, and when they applied for a job a few weeks ago, they were asked to refresh their 2391 course first.
Thoughts on this?
Secondly... My 16th upgrade to the 17th.
Seeing as it was 1995 when I did the 16th, and that I had been out of the sparking for a good 8 years... I thought that I should do the 3 day full 17th course as opposed to the 1 day course. Bit rusty on the calcs etc.
Mmm.... waste of time and money to be honest.
It was basically 2.5 days of overhead slides showing each page of the regs book.
If you got to a page of calcs... 'don't worry about this, you won't need this for the paper'... or 'Got that -yes... right lets crack on' (dispite the room full of blank faces)
Now I know you are not going to learn the regs in 2.5 days. But I would expect for a bloody expensive course... that it would get slightly more out of it.
My best advice to anyone doing the 17th course... do old papers. They are all over the internet (and on here) and they were far more valuable to me than the course ever was.
Once you can find your way around the regs book, you are sorted.
Saying that, the course centre and the instructor were very good. Just not what you would expect (or I asked for)
Steve
Couple of things I want to throw out there.
Firstly... I am planning on doing the dreaded 2391 next month.
But, while upgrading my 16th to the 17th last week, the training centre advised me that the 2391 is being phased out any day now and being replaced by 2393 and 2394 (I think that was the numbers).
Apart from the pain-in-the-bum factor of now having to do 2 courses to get the same result, it also will probably mean more money.
So... I either do the 2391 before it gets changed (by the way - congrats Dave on passing)... but then have a course that is going to be 'the old one'
Or I wait a few months and probably pay a little more and have the spangly new courses adorning my CV.
As far as I am aware, there are no time limits to these courses - 2391 etc. But saying that, I know someone with a 2391 course under their belt from 7 years ago, and when they applied for a job a few weeks ago, they were asked to refresh their 2391 course first.
Thoughts on this?
Secondly... My 16th upgrade to the 17th.
Seeing as it was 1995 when I did the 16th, and that I had been out of the sparking for a good 8 years... I thought that I should do the 3 day full 17th course as opposed to the 1 day course. Bit rusty on the calcs etc.
Mmm.... waste of time and money to be honest.
It was basically 2.5 days of overhead slides showing each page of the regs book.
If you got to a page of calcs... 'don't worry about this, you won't need this for the paper'... or 'Got that -yes... right lets crack on' (dispite the room full of blank faces)
Now I know you are not going to learn the regs in 2.5 days. But I would expect for a bloody expensive course... that it would get slightly more out of it.
My best advice to anyone doing the 17th course... do old papers. They are all over the internet (and on here) and they were far more valuable to me than the course ever was.
Once you can find your way around the regs book, you are sorted.
Saying that, the course centre and the instructor were very good. Just not what you would expect (or I asked for)
Steve