Assessment

Two steps before you commit to anything.

First a one-day English assessment. Candidates who pass are then invited to a fourteen-day residential practical aptitude test. Only after both do you and we decide anything about a programme.

Step 1

The English assessment

One day, at our centre in Sylhet. Written and spoken English at the level a working site actually needs — not an academic exam. Can you take an instruction, and can you give one back.

You get the result honestly. If your English is not there yet we will tell you what would need to change, and you are welcome to come back.

ENGLISH ASSESSMENT

£30

one day

Held at the Sylhet campus. Payable in GBP or the BDT equivalent.

Bring your degree or diploma certificate and your national ID.

Your family are welcome to come with you.

Step 2 · by invitation

The practical aptitude test

Candidates who pass the English assessment are invited to take part in a fourteen-day residential test. You live on campus, work in the workshop and yard, and we get to know how you learn and work.

Nobody expects trade skill. Two weeks is long enough to see how someone actually works — and long enough for you to find out whether this life suits you before you commit to a programme.

PRACTICAL APTITUDE TEST

£250

14 days, residential

Accommodation and meals on campus for the fourteen days.

By invitation only, after you pass the English assessment.

Bring clothes and closed shoes you can work in.

What the fourteen days look at

Coordination

How your hands learn. Whether a movement you were shown once starts becoming yours by the third day.

Care

Whether you set your tools down properly, keep your area clean, and mind the work of the person next to you.

Patience

The same operation, again, until it is right. Two weeks is long enough to see who stops trying and who does not.

Whether you listen

You are told something once. What you do with it is the single best predictor of how you will do on a site.

Not trade skill. None of our candidates arrive with it. These four things are what tell us whether you will get good, and they are the same four things a British site will judge you on.

What to bring

Your degree or diploma certificate, and your transcript if you have it.

National ID, and your passport if you already hold one.

For the fourteen days: clothes and closed shoes you can work in, and anything you need to live on campus.

Your parents, if they want to come. We would rather they did.

Your questions. Write them down beforehand — people forget them in the room.

An honest assessment

This is a genuine assessment, not a formality — and not everyone is the right fit at either step. If it is not the right time for you, we will explain why, and what you could work on to come back stronger.

If you are accepted

You choose between the Standard and Bootcamp routes with the full fee schedule in front of you, in writing, explained to you and your family in person — and you take it home before you sign anything.

Compare the two routes →

English assessments running now · intake starts August

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