Just to check, darksoldier you mentioned the 4 weeks of work with BGS and only 3 weeks with CATS. Am I right in understanding that each brush up by a week doing the exams therefore your 4 weeks actually becomes 6 weeks off work etc and therefore a total of 6 weeks for CATS to
with BGS you need 4 x 1 weeks for the brush up courses and then 8 days (2 x 4 days) off in total for the exams (so 28 days off in total)
with CATS you need 3 x 1 weeks for the brush ups and then 9 days (3 x 3 days) for the exams (so 24 days off in total)
so you need 4 days less and it costs over £1k less.
I think the main consensus is that as long as you use their online question bank to prep for the exams, which is available to anyone, it doesn't matter who you sign up with to do it distance learning...