Benjamin Piel
Bot reviews, Can't Be Worth Your Hard Earned $$$
You get a military discount of 20% (huge) if you're a veteran, but the glint of that acknowledgment is soon dulled by the unmistakable laziness in the curriculum as soon as you begin the course material. I barely get into its steps for API 1169, and it's all references—the very same ones printed at the end of the actual API 1169 standard itself. “Read this standard: ****,” or “Read and study this recommended practice: ****,” then take our short quiz to see if you memorized it sufficiently. Ridiculous. A “course” is supposed to stand in for a remote lecture when taken online. That means consolidating the material and boiling it down to the essentials—the meat and potatoes—then quizzing on that. Do that a few times, then test on those quizzes. Does this really need to be spelled out for these people at Velocity Training? Have any of them taken years of higher education, or did they sleep through it and scrape by with a passing grade? Paying $795, or in my case $636, for a course that has you simply read through a combined ~750 pages of recommended practices and standards is done in bad faith. This is not a good use of your time, and not the most efficient way to study for the API 1169 exam. Don't take it from me, though—do some research before blowing your cash on this. That is to say... if they ever publish this review and it's read by anyone.