Certificate 1 in Automotive - details please

[(CODEZ)]

hey everybody

im most likely going to be enrolling in Certificate 1 in Automotive which starts in the second semester

a teacher at my school is going to send out the information to me this week sometime but i would just like to know what sort of stuff do you learn in certificate 1

thanks

[(CODEZ)]

bumppp lol

[wamboin23]

i did my cert. 1 in automotive while at college.

covered single cylinder engines, multi cylinder engine (pull down, measure, clean, name parts, put back together), basic electrical (alternators, starters, electrical theory, ignition systems), gearboxes (manual and auto)

[(CODEZ)]

thanks mate, sounds great cant wait to start

[(CODEZ)]

does anyone else have any info on what they learnt or just the same as above

cheers

[Abrowne70]

i did cert 2, bit more detail into engines, cooling systems, drivelines, brakes, suspension, electrical, transmissions, charging systems. Dunno how much they differ from cert 1 to cert 2

[(CODEZ)]

okay thanks mate

cody

[HARVZ-6]

cert one is the basics of basics

[Torquative]

actually most TAFE stuff is the basics of basics, even my course was a waste of time to the poin the teachers agreed most of the stuff they were supposed to be teaching was out-dated and pointless

[(CODEZ)]

yeah i've heard that its really basic, but my school coordinator said it will knock time off of my apprenticeship when i start one, so thats why i want to do it.

is this true?

[nemesis_adrasteia]

they say that but i didnt get it because the codes didnt match or something

[DANNY8]

Me and my little bro done that course at high school. We seemed to know more then the teacher tho, so it was pointless. Was a bit of fun tho. We went through just the basics of everything really. If ya don't know much about cars and how they work, well you'll prolly learn sumfin (as long as u don't have a dumb shit as a teacher like we did), but if u know how to pull everything down and put it back together then ya prolly won't learn much at all. It got that boring for us that we ended up wagging lessons just because the teacher was useless and didn't know wat he was doing. No one in our class got their certificate....and a few people who done the course the year b4 told us that no one had got their certificate either. I think it's all to do with the teacher tho coz he didn't know wat he was doing. The only benefits by going to it was it was a bludge, and me and my bro got to work on our cars during school hours.

[(CODEZ)]

haha, well hopefully i get a decent teacher lol otherwise i wont pay the fees and stop rocking up to class lol

[Michelson4301]

When I did my Cert 1 in automotive engineering. I got my 1st year of TAFE taken off when i started my apprenticeship. Saved me some money and I got the job in the first place because of the initiative shown obtaining that bit of paper. It doesn't matter how much you know or think you know there will always be something to be learnt, no matter how small or big the knowledge/skill might be.

[groberr]

yeah my mate did this while at high school and i think he got like 5 or sumthing tafe modules done wich meens wen u get your apprenticship you will not have to do those modules again. he also said that half the time him and the other blokes were teaching the teacher half the time lol. allways good to learn tho plus you get 1 day off school! if ur still at it

[wamboin23]

the more i think about it, when i started my apprenticeship i got recognition of prior learning for hand tools, basic fabrication, environmental, oh+s and a few other things. so didn't have to pay for a couple of subjects, did them again anyway, cause more in depth for cert. 3

[(CODEZ)]

thanks for all the info everyone, i reckon i will do it

doing work experience now at a local mechanic and liking it so it will be worthwhile for when i get an apprenticeship

cheers

[sv3800#055]

yeah i did the cert 1, knocked 6 months off my apprenticeship, they call it a pre vocational course. im qualified now ( you complete cert 3 when your apprenticeship ends) and now that makes me eligible for ANY cert 3 or 4 course i wanna do at tafe. im currently enrolling in cert 4 in computer networking, i know where i wanna be in the next 5 years and it aint a mechanic anymore

Andrew