Surrey Campus
Automotive Technician Foundation Program
Our Automotive Technician Foundation program provides lots of real hands-on experience in our fully equipped shop where you’ll learn to handle all the relevant tools and equipment for success. In your class, our computer animated automotive software will ensure you obtain a visual understanding of key concepts for the trade, providing a rapid learning experience.
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Automotive Technician training in BC
The combination of both hands-on shop experience (60%) and classroom training (40%) offers our Automotive Technician students the best preparation for a great career in the auto industry servicing all makes of cars, including EV’s. Employment results after graduation are outstanding. Automotive Training Centre Instructors have decades of valuable experience in this trade. They’ll ensure you obtain the best knowledge and experience needed in today’s modern shops.
The Auto Mechanic Training program includes:
- Introduction to the Automotive Industry and Shop Safety
- Preventive Maintenance
- Service Wheels, Tires, Hubs and Bearings
- Operation & Service Hydraulic Brake Systems
- Operation and Servicing of Hydraulic Brake Systems
- Operation & Service Suspension Systems
- Operation & Service Steering Systems
- Wheel Alignment
- Welding Fundamentals
- Service the Drive Lines and Drive Axles
- Electrical Fundamentals
- General Electrical Systems Diagnostics
- Service Gasoline Engine
- Service Lubrication and Cooling Systems
- Operation & Service Ignition Systems
- Operation and Servicing Fuel Injection Systems
- Service Emissions and Computer Control System
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Admissions Requirements:
The minimum entrance requirements are 19 years of age prior to the start of the study and / or graduation from Grade 12 (or equivalent)
Language Proficiency Requirements
- Prior to acceptance, applicants must meet one of the following:
- Completion of 2 years of secondary education (including English 10 and 11, min. grade ‘C’) from a country where English is a principal language
- Completion of 2 years of full-time post-secondary education at an accredited institution where English is the language of instruction
- Completion of a recognized language pathway program (Languages Canada-accredited) with required level/grade
- Submission of verified test results (must be dated within 2 years):
- Provide verified results for one of the English language proficiency tests listed below:
Test results must be dated no more than two years before the start date of the program.
- International English Language Testing System (IELTS) Academic: overall score of 5.5 or higher.
- Canadian Academic English Language (CAEL) Test: overall score of 40 or higher
- Duolingo English Test: overall score of 95 or higher
Mature student applicants:
- Applicant is 19 years or older at the start of the program and is a Canadian citizen or permanent resident who cannot access is their educational records or provide sufficient evidence of secondary or post-secondary education as outlined above:
- applicant provides attestation that they have completed at least three years of full-time instruction in English in a country where the English is one of the principal languages, and
- Applicant completes an Accuplacer English Assessment (Next Generation: Reading, Writing and WritePlacer) and achieves the following minimum scores:
- Reading: 235
- Writing: 235
- WritePlacer: 4
Test Minimum Score Required
- IELTS (Academic) Overall band score of 5.5
- TOEFL iBT Overall score of 46
- CAEL Overall score of 40
- Duolingo English Test (DET) Overall score of 95
- PTE Academic Overall score of 43
- Cambridge B1 Preliminary (PET) Min. score of 160 or Grade “C”
- Cambridge Linguaskill Overall B2 level
- LanguageCert Int’l ESOL B2 level (Written and Spoken)
- Michigan English Test (MET) Overall B2 level
- iTEP Academic Overall score of 3.5
- EIKEN Min. placement: Grade Pre-1
*This program has been approved by the Private Training Institutions Branch (PTIRU) of Ministry of Advanced Education.
https://www.privatetraininginstitutions.gov.bc.ca/
