Cruises To Greece - CeMAP Training - A Fly on the Wall Account

3 combined training course that I attended in London run by Money Marketing Limited for 10 budding mortgage advisers; well here is a fly on the wall account of a recent CeMAP 2 &. Have you ever wanted to know before hand how a CeMAP training course might run on a daily basis?

Monday 9.00 am

One labelled Course Notes and the other Course Exams, the most surprising thing was two large folders in front of each delegate. The most pleasing thing was the friendly atmosphere that was created by the welcoming trainer and quickly putting us at ease and introducing the week ahead. Where the trainer greeted 10 very apprehensive and nervous delegates all looking for our allocated seats and nodding to each other in greetings, we all reported to the conference centre of the Premier Travel Inn at Enfield.

Must attempt them and see how it goes, still. Not done any exams since my school days, not used to this. Mock multiple choice exam questions at the end of each covered section, sure thing, yep. Are we being tested so early? What's this, well away we go covering the first part of the course and hey?

I had better get my head down and focus, still. Not much chance for socialising in the bar tonight then. Homework? What? The first day flew by.

Tuesday 9.30 am

Usually there are two definitely wrong answers and that only leaves two left to think about, i'm getting into this multi choice exams system now. Certainly couldn't do that on a self-study course, quite liked being able to ask questions and clarify things. Delegates asking questions to the trainer who shows a high degree of knowledge, off we go following the course notes. Marked the homework first thing and got 72% not bad. Needed that extra half hour to pull myself together, later start today.

Looks like it's going to be a daily thing. Homework again? Good sense of humour too. Goes out of his way to help. I like the trainer! The trainer said that all us that are struggling with our maths could stay behind for some extra tuition, hey. Some of these questions are rather difficult and I haven't done formulas and maths for ages.

Had five mock exams already and done OK so far, two days gone.

Wednesday 9.30 am

Enjoying today even more as it's about mortgage products and that what the job's all about anyway. Forming groups and socialising, people on the course are starting to make friends, although it's not easy. Here we go mid week and I'm starting to get the hang of this course and really enjoying it at last.

I haven't done any serious maths for twenty odd years, it's OK for some of the young people on the course as it's not long since that they left school but me. Stayed behind last night with a few of the others to get to grips with the formulas.

Not long to go now, missing the family though! Including the homework, some of my mock examination marks are starting to improve. More mock exams today and I think that I am coming to terms with the style of questions and the time allocated.

Thursday 9.30 am

It's as though the trainer knows how we think and act in front of other people. Just in case I showed myself up in front of everyone, cracking jokes and light conversation about some of the homework answers has certainly clarified one or two things that I was a bit shy to ask about, this trainer is incredible.

No Stella Artois, must get a good night sleep tonight. Last chance to get the preparation right for tomorrow, more homework for tonight. Must stay behind tonight to go through these different policies to better understand them. It's all a but confusing at the moment, level term, decreasing term, unit linked, low cost, what with Full Endowments. Last day to learn about mortgages and things but I must admit that all the insurances are rather confusing. The course content is getting a bit much but we are all in the same boat and it's full mock exams all day tomorrow, although the exam technique is now OK. Starting to feel tired today as it is starting to catch up on me.

Friday 9.30 am

We are all tense and ready for the mocks but don't know what to expect. Hope that I do well but it should be a good test today to see if I'm ready or not to sit the proper exam next week. Full mock exams today on both CeMAP 2 and 3 papers. Yet I feel so tired, the week has gone so fast, i don't believe it.

Don't really understand why they ask questions about endowments as they are not arranged anymore. There goes that low cost endowment question again. Whoops! Some of the questions are easy and I don't know what I was worried about, hey this is OK. Start, here we go.

Not looking forward to the CeMAP 3 exams this afternoon. 85% in the CeMAP 2 mock exam that only took me 1.5 hours of a two-hour question makes me feel good this morning and I'm dying to discuss some of the questions with the others.

The good news is that I can take my Course Notes and Course Exams booklets home with me and test myself on a further three mock exams before I sit the actual exams. Not good enough as it's borderline and I need to do more work for next week before I take the proper exam. Just got through he CeMAP 3 mock exam with a score of 71%.