Pallas 70 Education and Examination Center - Pallas 70 Education and Examination Center

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The prizes are the best here! In other schools, even at a discount, it is not so favorable. There are great teachers. Each is conscientious, helpful, humorous, supportive of students. You can ask to the extreme if something is not clear. Everyone throughout the school is maximally supportive, trying to find a humane solution to every situation, even within their limits. The online lessons were also well organized! I am grateful for the many support I received for my successful TB and Payroll Exam !!!! I would highly recommend it.

Sometimes the headlessness is complete. Communication is horrible, no specific information is provided. Among other things, they cannot provide meaningful answers to basic questions such as exam dates. 1.5-2 weeks before the deadline, they indicate that in addition to learning, approx. You have to give up 3-4 weeks of work, otherwise you can't take the exam which you don't know when ... will be a huge disappointment ... Not to mention the benefits promised in the "more expensive" package ... it would be enough if it basic conditions would be met, even if the “more expensive” was paid ...

In the foreword, I would highlight Richard Kiss as the only instructor who is professionally well prepared, a good speaker, and perfectly followable. He, if you read the rest, I hope you don’t take it upon yourself. Photographer training is uncritical. Written material is minimal (art items for old OKJ training), and electronic material is about the fact that a screenshot of a teams meeting can be viewed. Already, if there is. The instructors are unprepared, it is especially characteristic of one of them that he is inconspicuously stabbed with a lot of deer, from which one goes away after 10 minutes. The organization is headless, the information does not exist, no means are provided, in the case of outdoor photography, a subject is thrown in, and from there, everyone is dependent on themselves. There is no professional leadership. Travel has to be solved for everyone on their own, entrants go into their own pockets and there is no means provided for anything. Thus, in this form and quality is a pure stripping. Although I have no experience with them, the 100-hour course at the Free School of Photography is, based on the description, a thousand times more than I would have expected from this training. And even cheaper.

I was on training as a photographer and photo product dealer in the running OKJ training. As there was an oversubscription, so many classes were started at once and this had a strong impact on the quality of education. Exhausted teachers, unorganized curriculum, unreasonable breaks, and missed classes that are either replaced or not. COVID didn’t help either, as practice classes were regularly held during the quarantine period at the beginning of the course. This meant that except for 3 occasions, we didn’t go to take photos together. We didn't get the curriculum thematically by accident, but as it happens in a puffy way when the teachers just got to know it, that is, one day we took half a photo curriculum, then it was about printers, then art, then practice (about that later) and then we may have completed the photographic curriculum. The "exercises" were days that were hours in subject matter and had the function of going to take photos. Normally, other groups were given specific tasks for these days, but our group never got anything like that. As a result, it was as if the hour was gone. We talked about this several times, to which the answer was that everyone had to go through their own photography project at this time (there were also photographers starting the course who bought a machine for the first time at the time, so they didn't know much about its operation or photography rules, they don't know how they would have to move on ...). During the course, the teachers changed several times and the system was quite difficult, so we missed several hours, which were never replaced. There was a teacher who devotedly and attentively tried to pass the material and there was one who had a torture to listen to his lesson. The 3 times we went out to take photos was like a small group of babysitters. One time we went out to Margaret Island together and discussed when we would meet at the end of the day. We were not given a task just to let us go without any guidance or discussion. The education center itself works at terribly inflexible and unrealistically high prices. The exam cost 80,000 forints, which the school swallows if something happens to the person (hospital, covid, quarantine). They give so many discounts, if I get a certificate, they will release 50% of the price of the next exam. So you have to pay 120,000 forints for 1 exam. The proportion of redundant materials is unrealistically high, with weeks spent in photography training learning printers, monitors, scanners and history. Because of these, I didn’t take any photos that made me choose the course, such as portrait photography (I don’t mean the basic lighting, but the rules for portrait photography, outdoor portraiture, model setting, etc.) or subject photography. In summary, I have certainly progressed in some direction, but I do not feel that the course has provided useful knowledge. A lot of things were already revealed in the exam that we shouldn’t have gotten the material that way and we were taught in the wrong direction. It's just icing on the cake that I hated looking at my camera towards the end. I'm sure I'll stop taking photos for a while ...