NTTA? iS IT DIFFICULT

phaetonott

I did the NTTA exam route and passed first time with IIRC 95% ish
My son who is my AE sorted all the paperwork out, but I am shure it was completley free as was the 3 day NT training I was invited to.

Having been a field service engineer from leaving school I found it to be genrally common engineering sence. Although the questions can be seen to be anbigouse.
The question I got wrong I knew the answer to but it had some wording missing IE the right answer. when I got back convinced I'd failed and if it would have been a marginal fail I was going to complain about the question on my paper.
Turned out I didn't need to.

Also I spent the weeks before the exam reading Hilliers Motor Vehicle Technology, a brilliant book by the way

I didn't know about Hilliers until I joined this forum, but I also only got one question wrong, which was related to an "Air over Hydraulic" braking system, Which is something I don't think I've come across in thirty years in the trade.

Old Bedford trucks and the like use the air over hydraulic system. I doubt if you'll find it on any vehicles you are likely to test

Our lad goes to college don't know exactly what course he's on (probably knitting and sewing lol)
But I am under the impression the operators of the course are just in it for thier cut of what cash is available.
One tutor mithers them to death constantly asking if any of them have had a accident in thier respective workplace.

One day when I was removing a TRE he stood by me and said they were doing that on Tuesday so I says how do you do it then I had 2 hammers in me hands, thoughjt it might be a clue. He said we put bars in here (between track rod and lower wishbone AND driveshaft and lever. In horror I asked where the trainner was apparantley he left them with the "more experienced" apprentices in charge. So it's the blind leading the blind or thick.

Yoofs just don't seem to mess with stuff like when I was a yoof, and you'll find em washing thier hands 10 mins before finishing time, no matter what we're doing at the time! I know I never left on finishing time and rtegulary worked over unpaid to see a job through because I was hungry to learn and still am learning every day even at age 56

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