SkillsTrain N+ Course

In the face of adversity I have had more than my fair share of personal problems this year, including a long stay in hospital where I was unable to study and also suffering an industrial injury where I was laid up for the best part of 7 weeks also unable to study.

My ultimate goal is to become an MCSE and possibly cisco engineer, but I believe the A+ & N+ are an important starting base. This is why I am studying them before studying the MCSE. To me, as an IT professional, I would need to know about legacy OS and devices as these are going to be around for a while, not everything is windows xp or vista just yet!

My goal of finishing this 2003 A+ course and doing the exam was looking unachievable when I called skills train to ask what I can do at the beginning of June 07. After talking to the skill train staff, I saw a glimmer of hope, but realised the exam would be out of the question however alot of hard work would be required to finninsh the course by the end of June and allow me to get the 2006 materials for revision purposes and so I would not have to study the 2006 course in its entirety, thus enabling me to take the 2006 A+ exam sooner rather than later.

I modified my goals to make sure that the 2003 course would be finished by the latest 28th June 2007. I have studied many hours in succession to attempt to catch up and realise my new goal. It was an important part of the process for me to continue with the high marks as anything below what I had already achieved I would view as a failure.

My strategy was to make the TMA's like a full exam. I removed the TMA pages from the sections so I would not be able to see them, I gave them to my wife who I asked to act a my moderator. I proceeded to study all course material by reading the books through again and again also researching other sources of information such as verified and authoritative web sites.

When I was feeling confident I sat down and proceeded to start the TMA's. I needed to complete by hand without reference to any material except my study notes, once this was done I was confident enough to complete the TMAs on the disk and send them in.

At the time of writing this I just have the final TMA, 26a to do which I will be doing tomorrow morning 26th June 2007, before going to start a night shift at work. Job Done.

A big thanks to my wife who has been very patient allowing me to pursue my Goal.

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Being a parent, husband, employee and STUDENT, it was really hard work for me to get through my course, anyway I wrote my COMPTIA A+ EXAMANITAIONS and passed them with flying colors. Thanks to you all.

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My wife gave birth to our daughter on 25th March, which has caused me not to be able to study anywhere as much as I need or want to, especially as our 2 year old son requires lots of attention. So it has been very gratifiying that I have done fairly well on some of my Tma's ( not 2 say that my thick head still holds all the info ......... )

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I am very happy and would like to say thanks skillstrain for the good experience, I have been very busy with my family cares and I have a 4 year old son. I am a coach driver. I do shift work when I have time I study learning about the computer. It is not very easy with work and family commitments this will give me opportunities for a new skill to a better job. Thanks.

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As a new starter in computing career the skills train has given me a full moral support to start the career in IT. The IT sector is completly different subject to my bachelors or masters degree subject. It is a little bit difficult to get into the course. But I gained 97% in my first TMA. I worked hard for that, by doing a full time job in the food processing sector.I have finished my second TMA aswell in the same pressure. I hope I will get a better result compare to the first. I would like to thank you for providing such good material, that is easily to understand for the everday people like me.

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I am currently doing CCNA course now. I am full-time worker in one of the telecommunication company. I already finished an university degree but CCNA is very helpfull for my long team plans. I have completed A+ and N+ and will be finish it on time. Working and studying is very hard but I can do it. Thanks to skills train, they are doing a fantastic job.

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I HAVE BEEN DOING VERY WELL JUST SENT MY TMA 8 IN, AND I HAVE ONLY BEEN DOING THE COURSE 5 MONTHS. I AM STARTING TO HELP MY FRIEND WITH BUILDING PC SO THAT AS HELPED ALOT.

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I have been under a lot of pressure as the month begun,so much so that I have wanted give up,pressure from work and family {because I need to support my other half and our new born baby}. Anyway I finally made up my mind to keep up with the course inspite of the pressures,now here I am keeping up with my assignments,it was a tough decision, but it was worth it.

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I think this Skillstrain course is the best thing I have ever decided to do. So far from a slightly slow start mainly due to finding my way around the system (as I have never done anything remotely like this before) I am managing to achieve very good results 100% and I intend to keep to that from now on. Thank you to all at Skillstrain your courses are well structured and I believe anyone with enthusiasm and determination can achieve amazing results.

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I was in IT training back home(India) but since I have been in the U.K. I haave lost touch of my technical skills. I started working in the retail but its really not my cup of tea working in retail has never given me any kind of satisfaction. Finally I found skills train .... and now I am back in to the field I love to work and this is giving me a great satisfaction.... I am hoping to pass my A+ as well as CCNA with great success with the help of Skills Train...

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Still trying to work my way through this massive course, just finishing my CCNA and am about to start my CCNP. This in itself I think is an achievement.

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I am on my third assignmant I started the course about a month ago I could only work a PC and use the internet but now I can set a new laptop up and my own PC which I thought that it would of take me about six months to do. On my first assignmant I got 53% and once I had resubmitted it I got 100%, then on my second assignmant I got 77%. I am now working very hard to get 100% again for my third assignmant.

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I have really gained a lot in the 4 weeks because I have been able to design a time table for myself, during which I was able to complete 4 chapters from the part A of my course(core hardware).
The course had really helped me in performing well at the university because most of the modules are computer based like embedded systems design which is closely related to the hardware course I am taking at skillstrain.

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