Reply to: PRINCE2 training provider

[mikedarv]

Looks like I will have some forced time off before Christmas so might be a good time to get the Prince exam in.

I'm guessing the exam is the same across the country according to what is set by the official Prince people and not individual for each training provider?

ProjStudy looks the best bet at the moment price/location wise. I couldn't do it online at home as there is no way I would do it

[ThePRINCE2coach]

Foundation Exam

Hi Guys,

I am planning to do my PRINCE2 certification next month. Hence I am looking out for few training organizations in London. Budget is a constraint for me as I am paying myself for the course. One of my friend told me that projstudy training course prices are low but I am not very sure about the quality. Can anyone suggest?

cheers
Phil

Hi Phil
If budget is a constraint, then compare some prince Self Study courses.

Focus on a Foundation Self Study course that offers the following:
- Different learning formats (video, audio and book)
- Permits you to use this material off-line (on PC or SmartPhone)
- Make it easy to learn PRINCE2 (using examples), rather than just passing the exam
- Lots of questions to help you learn and check your knowledge at the same time
- No time limit on the training material

Hope this helps

[lukemg]

Was in a similar position a couple of years ago but was benched so used this to fill in some of the time.
Organising to do this, had some prework to do, week on the course to break things up a bit, all in all, filled in an empty month with something to show for it.
Think I could have bounced through foundation easy enough at home but practitioner was a bit tougher and knowing my own ability to self-motivate, a classroom environment was better for me (still needed additional work at night too) came out with a high mark I was chuffed with and the qualies for CV.
90% of the other people were Public sector using up training budgets (half had no project involvement or were ever likely too) wonder why UK plc is skint...
A couple of them could not pass foundation even after 5 days, they were totally clueless.

[Epiphone]

QA have online prince training. And you can haggle the pricing too

[speling bee]

That wasn't my experience at all of the Prince 2 course I went on.

Trainer had loads of real world examples, (mostly from an Engineering project perspective) that I found very interesting and gave me some new ideas. He was willing to talk about these in great detail outside of the classroom hours too.

If that is valuable then go for it. Most people paying for it themselves (in my experience) just want the certs to get their CVs in front of clients.

[fckvwls]

They all teach you how to pass the test and no more.

That wasn't my experience at all of the Prince 2 course I went on.

Trainer had loads of real world examples, (mostly from an Engineering project perspective) that I found very interesting and gave me some new ideas. He was willing to talk about these in great detail outside of the classroom hours too.

[speling bee]

Only those with 'Prince2 Training' in their RSS feeds

We possibly need a CUK spammers grudge sticky.

[cojak]

Well that's another provider to hold a grudge against.

Only those with 'Prince2 Training' in their RSS feeds

[speling bee]

And I've removed another 2 new 'member' from promoting the same provider..

Well that's another provider to hold a grudge against.

[cojak]

And I've removed another 2 new 'member' from promoting the same provider..

[cojak]

You've got three forum posts to date, and each one mentions that training link. One could be forgiven for thinking you're merely spamming.

Thanks for pointing this out GL.

[GreenLabel]

The problem with that, in comparison with an elearning, is you would probably have to spend 3 times as much time reading the text book. I would assume that your time is probably much more valueable than the couple of hundred quid elearning course?

Also thumbs up for Knowledge Train's elearning, w ww.prince2-online.co.uk

You've got three forum posts to date, and each one mentions that training link. One could be forgiven for thinking you're merely spamming.

[PhilipDew]

Thank you guys . This information was really helpful. I have just found out that pass rate for open center exam is 50% so I am bit skeptical about doing self study. Whereas pass rate for some ATOs is as high as 94%. So can you suggest me some more options that provide a good alternative to the regular classroom course. Like a mix of online and classroom. ?

[GreenLabel]

Practitioner is an open book exam. All you need to do is learn how to look up the answer quickly. Or almost all. I found the online course worthwhile for a few extra quid.

That's true. However, the course I did for practitioner was only 1.5 days including the exam, and only cost £180 (excluding exam fee). It was very helpful for a relatively small outlay, and the instructor was a great help. Compared with the cost of potentially having to re-sit the exam had I failed it was a good choice.

Regarding the open book exam, I found that using a pack of stick-on bookmark tabs to tag all of the important pages in the textbook was a huge help - time is precious in the practitioner exam and any time you can save not having to locate important concepts is a bonus.

[speling bee]

The problem with that, in comparison with an elearning, is you would probably have to spend 3 times as much time reading the text book. I would assume that your time is probably much more valueable than the couple of hundred quid elearning course?

Also thumbs up for Knowledge Train's elearning, w ww.prince2-online.co.uk

And this is new. Do the exam from home. Online PRINCE2 exams