DevonR

Your right on that one mate.
That's the reason why i will defend what I learnt on this course as much as people may knock it. Darren used to be a teacher in the colleges for tiling, he then went on to be a teaching assesor as well as his 22 years in the trade so the guy obviously has a wealth of experience and is used to training to and with BS. He has removed the non essentials and honed his course to concentrate on the pure knowledge behind the trade.
There were guys on my course who said they had tiled and when asked how they lay out a room they either said start from the middle, start from the floor, start from the bottom or top left corner etc. None of them knew. So as you say as much as they thought they were experienced, they weren't really.