Simply Academy Reviews

Dave was fantastic and really did help me pass cemap 1 as he focussed on what really mattered in terms of knowledge needed.

Excellent Trainer- the best trainer I have ever had. Only critism was that there was not enough time spent on unit 2 for some reason. We started unit two pm thursday and ended at 11am on the friday ? I only just passed unit 2 with a 70% pass but got 88% on unit 1.

The teacher was really good and made it really interesting, i would recommend the online live classrooms.

David was a great host, as he kept the learning fun and insightful. He had a big task of teaching 20 individuals that were not in the same room as him, so he did a great job with getting everyone involved. His real-life examples and stories were particularly useful and helped me a lot in the real exam. The structure of the course was great, as we had frequent short breaks and a nice long lunch break. There was no stress at any point and was a nice, relaxing experience whilst simultaneously intense. David made sure we had a customizable experience, meaning we wouldn't waste time on a topic we were all very confident with. The only downside of the course was the end of topic questions, where everyone would answer 3-5 topic-related questions in the chat function. As everyone's answers were sent publicly, the questions were not as challenging as the activity turned into a 'repeating the first answer sent'. It is a minor fault but perhaps a slightly more competitive tone could be adopted for this section, as I found myself sometimes turning the chat off and answering independently. Some end of topic questions were briefly skipped over, even when we had all put the incorrect answer - however I appreciate this may be due to time constraints. I feel like a great solution to this would be sending answers to David exclusively, to provide true answers from the students. Despite David's brilliant teaching method's, I wasn't a massive fan of the '0 right, 1 right, 2 right, 3 right or all right' approach. I found myself overthinking constantly about if it was a trick question or I was over analysing the question. Again, I feel this confused the chat more causing a chain reaction of answers. This had an adverse effect in my exam, as I felt I was tricking myself into thinking all answers were right. I appreciate David's 'master tip' of not changing your answers after answering them, and I believe this is what helped me ultimately pass my exam. I passed the exam with 2 Merit Passes and couldn't be happier!! Thank you David :)

Relevant course materials well presented by a highly experienced and capable trainer. David Beever is a superb lecturer, really knows his product, and entertaining too - which aids in facilitating long term retention of the facts. One small niggle only with Simply Academy's email support offering - relatively slow response time in relation to enquiries. Apart from that, can't fault them. Would definitely recommend!

I thought David did an excellent job. His experience and knowledge that he was able to put across and help with understanding the course really helped. Would highly recommend a course that David is presenting. I'm hoping that when I come to study CeMap 2 & 3 that I can book with David for that too

Pete is a fantastic teacher, i tried to do the exam before but Pete found he put words into English and made the understanding alot easier to learn got my exam Friday so fingers crossed i pass but i have cemap 2 - 3 next week looking forward the class

David was really knowledgeable and went through the coursework thoroughly. It’s a vast course with ample to retain. But the mapping was done really well. Really happy to be part of the session. Good luck Simply Academy team.

Being new to the financial world, the course helped me develop a personal development plan on how to get into the workplace, whilst giving me examples of how to approach initial meetings and fact finds. As always the tutor made the content current and entertaining for the whole five days. Highly recommend, thank you.

Absolutely loved the course. Has gave me great motivation and confidence going forward. Thanks to David and the other participants for a great week.