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Repeatedly use my child’s information to share on forums. Have been asking for over a year for them to stop.

I retook my GCSE English, Maths, Biology and Chemistry through the NEC. I found the NEC resources good, but also chose to purchase the CGP & exam board specific texts recommended in the NEC material. When I reached out to my tutors the support was great, my assignments were returned swiftly and with helpful comment. I found studying Maths the hardest, but there are plenty of YouTube tutorials to help if you get stuck. All the best with your studies.

Really good support and now I've got a grip on the system and formats, it's veryexciting.

Course materials are comprehensive and easy to follow, plenty of support when needed and always engaging.

My daughter recently completed A Level Classical Civilisation with NEC. The course is structured so that students can complete it at their own pace and she found all the resources clear. I was impressed by the quality of feedback she received from her tutor (I am a teacher). The feedback enabled her to make progress. She says that there was a lot more support available from her tutor that she didn't make use of - but she was glad it was there. I was also very happy with the administration of the course and exam. Responses to queries are reasonably quick and clear. They communicated regularly through the course. This is really sound distance learning and I am very happy with it. I am very confused by the negative reviews as our experience has been so positive.

Great online college to do A levels with. Very helpful.

Be warned, you need to be very self disciplined, know what to expect from your tutor, and give yourself as much time as possible to complete the course.

With A level Literature, I would put the non examination assessment as the first task. As soon as you read about the course, start your NEA by choosing your 2 texts to compare and start reading/ making notes. The more work you do on this, the better your final result will be.

I made the decision to study A levels (Maths, Further Maths and Physics) at NEC. My experience with NEC has been amazing and beyond my expectation.

The course materials provided were comprehensive and easy to follow. I found the practicing questions very helpful and were enough to prepare me for the exams.

My tutors were brilliant, they provided detailed feedbacks on every assignment and answered my questions promptly. The other NEC staffs were also very supportive and friendly.

NEC guided me through UCAS submission and exams booking. Now I've completed A level courses and will study at my dream university this September. NEC, thank you!

The materials for this Art History online course are excellent. Enrolment was simple and the online platform is pretty easy to use. Most importantly, though, the content of the course has been fascinating so far. I am thoroughly enjoying it.

Really good methods for basic numeracy, most of which I had not come across before. Still learning to navigate website, this could be more user friendly. Have not tried tutor yet so cannot comment on this.

Great experience!
The experience studying at NEC was amazing! The course was well structured, easy to access and my tutor, Amanda, was brilliant!! Her feedback was always very prompt and extremely useful. I definitely recommend studying with NEC.

Very early days yet, but the course materials are good and my tutor contact has been excellent.

Enjoying the A Level course but slightly disappointed to be sent a special offer the week after I started that NEC would not let me use.

Extremely easy process. The staff kept me informed of relative information and were prompt in their response to any questions I had. Overall a good experience

Perfect, responsive, always helpful and prompt to respond.

The overview of the course and what to expect was easy to follow and I received the sign-in details, access to the system and the e-book within a couple of days which was faster than I expected.

My tutor contacted me within a few days of starting and has already given me some feedback on my study plan.

All looks very slick so far!

Really disappointing structure to the course, there isn't a structure at all actually.

As other reviews have said, the help I received over the phone while researching a French GCSE course was great. Setting up a direct debit to pay for the course each month was easy. Before I knew it I was into the introductory session to the course.

I'm an adult learner and have not been in education for 10 plus years. I set myself a personal goal to get my French GSCE. Once I was signed up I was really excited to get started. My tutor introduced themselves and I felt happy I would progress.

However, once I started the first section, Home and School, that is where the good feeling stopped. There is nothing in this course that offers anything more than just buying the Edexcel GCSE French book. There is nothing to build your knowledge, no lessons, no classes, no building grammar skills. You are instructed to work through the Edexcel book. I was left wondering what my £400+ went towards.

After struggling with the first section I contacted my tutor. The course states that if you no not understand a word, simply look it up in the dictionary. That seemed fair enough. But when I approach my tutor to say I did not understand the first sentences in the book, or when particular words changed based on a number of grammar factors, his exact response was WYSIWYG ("What you see is what you get")!

The response was so poor it made me cancel the course straight away. Instead I have signed up with a private tutor, 1 hour a week that sets me clear goals and explains the grammar.

This course is a bit of a con. As people have said in these reviews, you may as well just buy the Edexcel book and work through it by yourself.

Glad there was a cooling of period for the course as now I have found a way of studying that suits me and I have already started progressing.

I have done several courses with the NEC and always found both the materials and the tuition first class .

There was a discount put on courses at the weekend but as no one was available on your telephone lines over that weekend, there was no option to pay this in monthly instalments, which the website says you can do (this option is only available if you pay over the phone).

Enrolling on my Art History course with the NEC was easy and straightforward. A couple of days after receiving confirmation of my enrolment I received an email from my tutor welcoming me onto the course which was nice.
The course material is easy to follow on the website and there is a wealth of additional reading if required. The constructive feedback I’ve received from my tutor regarding my assignments has been helpful. And Student Support have also contacted me to check things are going okay.
I would thoroughly recommend studying with the NEC for the excellent comprehensive course materials and tutors and Student Support are always on hand to answer queries and offer support.

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