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which school is up to date with material?

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which school is up to date with material?

Postby damarcuswilson » 14 Dec 2006 14:39

I have been looking penn-foster, foley/belsaw, and pcdi. I read a few times that some of their material is out of date. Which school is up to date?
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Postby LockNewbie21 » 14 Dec 2006 18:22

Go with foley or penn.

YOu question regarding outdated material, the answere is to take the course as they teach you the fundamentals oldschool style. You use these to build on.

FOr a quick example, Foley teask your to use the sutt from a light to mark a blank to impression. You could go high tech (i guess hi tech :P) and use the black light and marker, which is mainly for at night such and so on.

Basically there all good, you want a course that is recognised, I know penn Foster is not as they siad well don;t knwo.. which is a know.

Foley as much as i bashed it is okay I would say your very safe going with that course as many many have taken it in here. Plus the thread on it is massive :P
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Postby Deathadder » 15 Dec 2006 0:38

umm, just a little constructive criticism *please dont kill me* but uhh, yeah, you might want to fix your grammer/spelling/everything... *waves white flag* but anyways... I heard from a bunch of people that foley is the way to go. There are several threads here on this topic, and i think they all mainly argue with each other about which is better, so dont bother with those :D .
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Postby LockNewbie21 » 15 Dec 2006 10:47

I know my grammer is poop mate haha :P
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Postby freakparade3 » 16 Dec 2006 19:39

Foley-Belsaw is updating. Also, you now get to keep alot of the locks that previously had to be sent back.
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