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I took my 18th update (finally!) as an EAL a couple of weeks ago - questions were just as obtuse as C&G so I wouldn't worry!
Need to get mine done. Who did you do the course/exam through? How much was on line?
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I took my 18th update (finally!) as an EAL a couple of weeks ago - questions were just as obtuse as C&G so I wouldn't worry!
I've a technical training centre only a few mins from home, mostly plumbing and gas stuff but they do some select electrical training so I've used them a few times just to basically sit exams. They charged me £150 for a morning refresher and then the exam which I thought was pretty good value. Sadly, wrong end of the country for you.Need to get mine done. Who did you do the course/exam through? How much was on line?
I've a technical training centre only a few mins from home, mostly plumbing and gas stuff but they do some select electrical training so I've used them a few times just to basically sit exams. They charged me £150 for a morning refresher and then the exam which I thought was pretty good value. Sadly, wrong end of the country for you.
It's the full thing, a feast of sixty confusingly written questions that on my paper picked their way from basic principles right through to mesh bonding for PBX's and obscure applicable standards. Really annoyingly only got 98% though and it's been bugging me as to which one of 2 or 3 ambiguous questions I managed to drop!!Sounds decent. And is the exam based on the whole of the regs, or is it mainly based on the updates?
Interesting. Didn't even know about Eal, thought we were all just city and guildsThere are some organisations that don't recognise EAL only C and G will satisfy them.
See, I wanted to do C&G I thought at the time serc would be. I didn't even know EAL was a thing. It was a rush job I only got the employer to take me on in the first week of the aecidemic year. And because of Covid class sizes are a lot smaller meaning less places. Originally I wanted to go to SRC as it was closer to me and I knew they did C&G
My tutor said that they used to do C&G but they found EAL. Easier to work with and he showed me that the EAL meets the same NVQ standard that C&G does. I only got concerned about it since a spark in work said that it was easier. But he said that was years ago and didn't know about the current standard of EAL.I've been looking at this for a couple of years, although things are different due to my age. SERC's website makes no mention of EAL as far as I can remember. Last year was defintinitely EAL too, but can't comment about what they offered prior to then.
Funnily enough SRC would be more convenient for me also, but they only run apprenticeship courses and have no option for old gits wanting to pay their own way.
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