Simply Academy Reviews

easy to understand and where is did not trainer was happy to go over

Good Course,Good Trainer.There is no complaint and overall Excelent.

Excellent course well run and presented

Great service provided. Helped me through my L3 Financial Services Administration apprenticeship - along the way I built up a solid foundation of knowledge which I can use to help further my career in financial services industry.

From start to finish the entire experience was fantastic, the office staff were always on hand to help, the course work emails and literature were extremely comprehensive and couldn't have asked for more. Everything was explained extremely well and very easy to navigate coursework and links etc. A special thanks to David Beever who was amazing, very knowledgable and patient. I passed my CeMap 1 today with 84% Merit to good stuff. Onto CeMap 2/3 and will be booking the advisor course soon. Thanks to everyone at simply, keep up the good work.

The course i found a bit frustrating Myself and everyone else on the course are taking it so we can be mortgage advisers yet there is little content linked to mortgages. for example on day one we spent about an hour on what money was. The trainer Terry is clearly a highly intelligent individual and was able to go into great detail however i think its fair to say we all understand what money is and that time could have been better spent on other more complicated areas such as pensions and investments or regulation. I asked on day 4 when we eventually started discussing mortgages in slightly more detail what the point of the course was and i was informed it was to give us a broader base of the financial landscape to assist us when we are mortgage advisers. however i worked for a bank for 5 years and have been in a mortgage brokerage for 2 years and any time a client wishes to discuss pensions, investments etc we always tell them we can not discuss this and suggest they speak to an investment or pension adviser. This was the case at the bank too so why if none of us are currently wanting to be pension or investment specialist why must we study so much of this and have it make up a large part of the test when most of it will never be used in our roles as mortgage advisers. When i have spoken with other CEMAP qualified advisers with experience in the industry they have all said the same thing so its very frustrating to have taken 5 days off work and near £1500 in total for it. Terry's teaching ability is undoubted and he is one of the most intelligent people i have ever come across as well as very supportive if we needed any additional help however he had a tendency to go into great detail or tangents about a matter which for me sometimes made the info we needed to take in get lost in all the other info. aside from this id happily take a course on any subject from Terry as his passion is infectious. As for the location having it in Edinburgh city center is a bit of a nightmare for parking as the hotel never had any parking available. this means i was £14 per day even with the hotels discount in an nearby car park. i would like this sort of thing to be held in a Hotel in a less built up area with parking facilities.

This course (Mortgage advisor apprenticeship) has provided me with a great insight into not just the mortgage market but also the wider UK financial sector. I received excellent support from my tutor almost every week during my apprenticeship. The study material I got from the CeMap course was worth its weight in gold. Furthermore, the mock tests provided from simply academy were fantastic as they helped give me a great understanding of what the exams would look like. I am very grateful for the work my tutor Linda has done for me. Thanks!

Absolutely fantastic, cannot recommended the course or Alan Downing enough. A truly amazing gentleman. You can tell he really thrives off helping students to learn and develop.

so I have just finished my third exam and have now passed all of them. I would like to add that I passed 6 of the 7 units first time and the only one I failed was by only one question due to the outstanding teacher Terry Bateman. I would like to say thank you specifically to Terry as he was very helpful and was more than happy to stay behind after courses and would arrive early in case you had anything in particular that you needed help with. Terry has been brilliant not only with his knowledge and teaching abilities but also with his extreme passion for the financial industry. It has made me have faith that I have have chosen the right career path and I can only hope that in the future I will love this industry as much as him. thanks again Terry, Jamie Risk.

The teacher was really good and explained everything very well.