NIE Training - 2-Day Crammer Course for NIE exams

"This course certainly contributed to my 94% pass mark - without a doubt, money well spent"

Cate Lonergan
March 2011 NIE - top mark in force (Kent) and 2nd highest mark nationally.

NIE Training offers you an ultra-intensive two-day study course specifically targeting areas of the NIE syllabus that are consistently tested in your examination. Our 100% original course material and methodology has been proven to work for NIE candidates by your peers since October 2002.

Our study courses:

Are ONLY for National Investigators' Examination candidates.

Your course is designed for YOU - the NIE candidate ALONE. You WILL NOT be attending a course with Ospre Part I sergeants' or inspectors' candidates as not only do they study a different syllabus but their examination is fundamentally different to yours.

Are true 'crammer' courses.

We believe that the reason you attend our course is to work extremely hard for two days and not to have extended tea breaks and one hour lunches. You will be given short breaks between inputs but breaks are kept to an absolute minimum.

Provide you with the opportunity to sit a two-hour 80 question mock examination.

The examination tests all the major areas of the syllabus. The examination is written in exactly the same style and format as the real NIE and is marked during the course. This mock examination is entirely original and unique to our course and does not use questions from any of our published works.

Present you with in-depth lectures focusing on the most important subjects in the examination.

Our valid and reliable statistical research enables us to target your lectures on the most valuable subject matter.

Our lectures are supported by dynamic PowerPoint presentations designed to aid the simple but modern learning approach we have developed with years of experience in this field. We know that everyone learns in different ways and to cater for this factor we have adopted a blended learning approach that appeals to all learning styles.

A key element to this blended learning approach is 'interactivity'. We teach the law, pointing out the areas of greatest importance and giving easy to understand examples from case law.

Then you will have the opportunity to test yourself by applying your knowledge of the law to NIE style MCQ's.

Allow you to see how multiple-choice questions really work.

In doing so you should be able to eliminate errors in your question answering techniques.

Give you the chance to test your knowledge and application of the law using a 'Personal Response System'.

By answering multiple-choice questions during lessons (in an entirely anonymous fashion) you can find out whether you really do understand the law.

Candidates are often concerned that when they answer questions in lectures they will answer incorrectly and consequently be embarrassed. This worry can prevent their participation or lead to them taking hints from the answers of others and does not help them to understand the law. To assist candidates in the learning process, all of the multiple-choice questions along with the true/false questions used in our lectures can be answered using an electronic 'Personal Response System' (PRS) which we will provide to you to use for the duration of your course.

These simple hand-held electronic devices allow you to interact with the all of the questions posed. Your answer is transmitted to our computer and the results of the class are then displayed within our PowerPoint presentation. This totally anonymous system means that at no stage can you be identified as having not taken part or as having answering a question correctly or incorrectly. You will still be able to see for yourself how your knowledge compares to that of other candidates, helping you decide which areas of law you need to pay more attention to during your revision period.

This self-assessment process allows you to have confidence in providing us with your answer while still being able to and allows us to gauge class understanding of the law. We can then quickly clear up any ambiguities or misunderstanding without identifying any particular individual and move on to the next topic.

Not only do candidates find PRS a fun way to learn but there is a great deal of research showing that these technology-supported assessment methods lead to improvements in candidates conceptual reasoning and exam performance.