For my holidays my friend and I had decided to join A+ and N+ course at NIIT. As soon as I went in, a counsellor namely Madhu invited us in with a huge smile. I am from an engineering background, she gave me a form to fill my grades, 10th and 12th marks.
She recommended I join CCNA. Even though she told me I could do the course within the one and half months, I was a little doubtful. Hence i only joined A+ and N+ course( a prerequisite/necessity for CCNA course), thinking I would do CCNA the following year.
I joined on 19th june and the classes started from 31st june( they were supposed to start from 27th itself). I was a little worried as to how they would complete two huge volumes each of A+ and N+ but i shrugged it off. here are a few problems that I faced.
• Before we joined the course I was told that the course will be from 7 to 9 in the morning or evening. We requested you to take classes in the morning. During our enrollment we were told they would look in to the matter. But after we enrolled our request was completely ignored and the timing was from 7pm to 9pm. We even mentioned to the faculty about this problem but she did not take any action. When I asked before joining the course if there were to be other girls too as it was taking place at night, I was told that there were other girls. I came to the first class seeing that there were no girls except for me! Then after that my close friend joined after I referred NIIT to her.
• We were told to write our cell numbers in a sheet against our name by the faculty. I started receiving some disturbing SMSs from some student in the class just after the first class got over. I was frustrated by this itself! I reported the matter the faculty. But NIIT was unable to trace the student.
• Once we were in the class (A+) we expected to learn more about computer hardware. During the three weeks I was enrolled in the course we were made to attend just four classes. We were told that some other students were slow in understanding hence the faculty was compelled to go slowly. If that were the case why recommend such a course with majority of the students being from Diploma background looking to be PC technicians to someone with a B.E background?! We were students from a highly reputed college in Bangalore (electronics and communication) with above average grades. they were well aware of this as we were asked to fill our grades, 10 and 12 th standard marks during our enrollment! The faculty meanwhile was teaching extremely basic things like creating new folders, the start button etc which any kid these days is well aware of. In the classes that we attended the only information on hardware of computer given was extremely basic (i.e basic on parts of computer-Monitor, Sytem Unit, keyboard etc).
• During our enrollment we had mentioned to the counsellor (or whatever she is!!) that we were enrolling for the course during our holidays that ends on Aug. 15. We were told that they would cover the whole syllabus within the period. But in the three weeks that we had attended we had just 1 class of N+(where again some basics were covered) and we had attended just four A+ classes(including the introductory class. The rest of the classes conducted during the period was not attended by us as the faculty asked us not to attend because he was still covering basics). So in the three weeks even the first 3 chapters were not fully covered. We were just not being given whatever the course offered. We realized that it was now impossible for the faculty to cover 2 volumes each of A+ and N+(for which classes had hardly begun!). Frustrated, we decided to withdraw from the course.
• Now our holidays are coming to an end with 2 weeks left. I have learned nothing useful from their course. Even though we are being told that classes will be conducted for us specially and separately, it is simply impossible for the faculty to complete the portion without rushing through it. Even this was not informed to us properly! Moreover we have completely lost interest in the course due to the number of problems listed above.
We had enrolled with NIIT( supposed to be a reputed institute!) with the hope of getting the first class training that they offered. We are really disappointed to see the actual standards of their coaching.
Please note we enrolled to get more knowledge, learn new things and are not really interested in their certificate.




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