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12 Reviews For Oxford Open Learning www.ool.co.uk

  • Guest 13th Apr 2009

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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    General comments: am doing gcse history and have nothing but praise in the way the Oxford Open Learning course is presented . i couldnt ask for a better tutor. he has helped and encouraged me. i would have rated a 10 but havent quite finished the course yet.

  • Guest 10th Mar 2009

    Reviewer rating: 1 stars


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    Oxford Open Learning were swift to send out the initial box of books and work, all looks nice.
    That's all I got. The tutorial help seems to be rather ad hoc, there is no formal plan for submitting assignments, also the tutor seemed to me to be very busy and distracted.

    If you are serious about learning how to write for money, as I was, go to ideas4writers.com, It has lots of good advice. If I'd known about it before buying the course from OOL I would not have bought it.

  • sadfrost 2nd Mar 2009

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    A creative writing course with Oxford Open Learning which has 3 chapters focusing on interviewing, writing hints and tips for magazines and selling your true life stories to journalists. So far as I can tell this company only offer a money back guarantee if you are willing to write into magazines about what the best thing to do with your old ashtrays is! Tried to change course and was told that I was silly for not changing immediately and that I would be charged £100! Poor customer servic ...

  • banbancake 7th Jan 2009

    Reviewer rating: 4 stars


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    I did Oxford Homeschoolings course KS3 English (year 9), without doing an exam. The course was interesting and easy to follow and I did fairly well in the end - started of getting 62%, but ended up getting a couple of 80-85%.I'm now doing 7 GCSEs with them: Economics,English, Geography, Law, Maths, Single Award Science and Double Award Science( over the course of 2 years). I had to change my economics tutor as he was very unhelpful, but I asked for a new one and they change him straight away; I ...

  • winners90 15th Oct 2008

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    In my opinion the OOL Courses at GCSE are too superficial to obtain satisfactory grades and are not worth the money. They offer a money back guarantee if you do not get grade C or above but I would not reply on this.
    I felt my coursework was marked poorly and found the tutors very hard to get hold of even using emails it sometimes took 2 - 3 weeks!
    Some papers came back with 90%+ but exam results unclassified.
    You have to put the effort in as I did but I would not recommend
    Oxford Open Learnin ...

  • Guest 5th Oct 2008

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    Oxford Open Learning - I decided last year to try an A level in pure maths with them. All I was sent was a nice shiny binder with some seemingly shoddy notes written in it. Trust me, this is all I got. I had to buy all the text books myself, and I had to buy ALL the text books to complete the course. I found the mandatory text books to be unhelpful to say the least, the examples appeared to be long drawn out, I found it totally confusing. Whenever I got stuck, which I did frequently because of t ...

  • colliver19 4th Jul 2008

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    I attempted to study an A Level with them and for just over £200 I recieved a small A4 folder with some seemingly poorly written notes inside which gave references to an A Level textbook written in the early 1980s. I also have to try to find a school or college which is willing to accept me as a private student for the examinations - which I have found to be neither easy nor cheap. I subsequently studied with the Open University and could not believe the difference. The OU are professiona ...

  • Guest 29th Jun 2008

    Reviewer rating: 0.5 stars


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    Material delivered in PDF format which can only be accessed when online and cannot be printed. This means you can only study whilst online. You cannot study on the train, on holiday etc.
    The material provided in my Diploma course would not pass GCSE English. It is littered with spelling and punctuation mistakes. I am astounded that an Educational company would put its name to such shoddily written tat.

  • Guest 4th Jun 2008

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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    My experience with the OOL has been excellent - I was pretty daunted at the prospect of booking my own exams but they turned out to be very easy to do and the OOL provided alot of paperwork and help for me to do that.

    It's been so good that I've enrolled again....You do need to be dedicated to spending at least 6-8 hours working each week but the sense of achievement after the exam was well worth it...

  • CharlieAngel 8th Mar 2008

    Reviewer rating: 0.5 stars


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    I'm really disappointed in the course so far. I would have expected the course material or the book we were told to buy to include a lot more worked examples instead of just answers in the back of the book. The idea of working at my own pace is good, but it feels like I'm having to do *everything* myself - including researching the course material online. I find it incredibly frustrating that I'm spending so much time researching explanations that I would have expected to have been included ...

  • Guest 9th Jan 2008

    Reviewer rating: 4 stars


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    I dis a couple of GCSE courses with them and a couple with some others. The big difference came when I had to Enroll for the exam when Oxford Open Learning were far superior.

  • Guest 12th Dec 2007

    Reviewer rating: 1.5 stars


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    I thought that both of the Oxford Open Learning GCSE courses I did were very badly worded, poorly laid out and seemed to assume you already have an A level in the subject and were doing the GCSE just for the hell of it.
    I was doing two additional GCSE's at a local college in the same subject areas and I thought that the Oxford Open Learning courses were far, far more advanced.