Becoming an professional electrotechnician?

[Vardant]

Hi guys, cool forum btw

Right, well, hope Ive come to the right place. So heres whats going on, I applied for an Electro Technology level 2 course at my local college, its 4 weeks later an I have been given an interview for the 22nd of april. Now im wondering, I scored an E for my maths gcse, I then took an FSMQ maths course in college 4 years ago, and scored a double pass. I have never been any good at maths, science I was good with but not math, so how will this effect me? negatively? and to what extent?

My mate is an electrician, and he said unless I can do long division, complex equations and advanced formula, I wont have a chance

Im also applying for a BA in computer animation, when it comes to art courses im on point, same with computer design, but would really like to become an electrician aswell as a 3d animator.

Hmmmm...

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

No idea what you need, or where you might be, but the courses I did involved maths above that I'd done at O level (exams at 16) in a highly regarded grammer school.

You certainly require good algebra and arithmetic skills though, and most likely much more than that.

 

[Vardant]

Intresting...

The fsmq was a basic maths buffer, 'managing money' and 'making sense of data' was the fundation fsmq to then retake the gcse.. Seems I should work to my strenghts and focus on the BA Animation course, thing is I really would like to be an Electrician aswell as an Animation specialist. Im thinking - work up the maths qualifications ladder to get my footing in complex maths, then take the electrotechnicians course, probably evening courses as to not intrude into my Animation course.

 

[crutschow]

Mathematics is required to understand the operation of AC and DC circuits. Unless you are comfortable with math, being an electrotechnician may not be a good fit for you. But take some math courses, such as beginning algebra, and see how it goes.

I would expect not much math is required for Computer Animation.

 

[confounded]

Maths is like any other thing if you keep working at it you will improve.
I have no idea but i would imagine while the course may contain alot of maths when you are actually working you would use computer programs where you just enter values and it does calculations for you.
If you really want to be an electrician then you can be.

 

[Vardant]

Cheers for the advice guys, I think ill just continue with the animation course and start taking evening maths classes.

Also, (this is a lil off topic) I started to defrag my gaming rig last night, and, well, its still defraging.. Im totally lost on this one, shouldnt it take 4 hours, not 13? (started defrag when I went to sleep, after a loooong session of empire total war) Maby has something to do with only having 39 gigs left on my 500 gig hd, my rigs pretty new & powerful aswell.. hmmm

Anyways, thanks for everything so far, been very helpful guys, think I was a tad bit delusional thinking I could take on this course with such a lack of maths skills.

 

[colin55]

Six months ago I couldn't spell "technishon." Now I are one.

 

[crutschow]

Cheers for the advice guys, I think ill just continue with the animation course and start taking evening maths classes.

Also, (this is a lil off topic) I started to defrag my gaming rig last night, and, well, its still defraging.. Im totally lost on this one, shouldnt it take 4 hours, not 13? (started defrag when I went to sleep, after a loooong session of empire total war) Maby has something to do with only having 39 gigs left on my 500 gig hd, my rigs pretty new & powerful aswell.. hmmm

Anyways, thanks for everything so far, been very helpful guys, think I was a tad bit delusional thinking I could take on this course with such a lack of maths skills.

Good luck on your endeavor. Understanding math is partly motivation, since it can be somewhat of a dry subject. If you really want to be electrotechnician, then I think you'll be able to learn the math required.

The slow defrag could be the small percentage room left on your HD, but still, 39 gigs is quite a bit in absolute terms. Defrags can be slow, though.