ETC Awards Limited · RQF Level 3
ETCAL Level 3 Certificate in Repair and Maintenance Engineering
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits20
- Guided learning200 hours
- Units in this qualification5
Awarded by ETC Awards Limited · on the Ofqual register
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Ten quick questions, one per Future Fluency, asked against this qualification rather than a generic one.
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
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These are the units ETC Awards Limited registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Chassis System and Component Faults DiagnosisReal unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the safety requirements for chassis component and system fault diagnostic testing.
- Understand the procedures required for chassis component and system fault diagnostic testing.
- Understand how chassis systems and components interact with each other.
- Identify chassis system and component faults using appropriate diagnostic techniques.
- Recognise the causes and symptoms of chassis system faults.
- Understand how to diagnose faults in chassis systems and components.
- Understand how to rectify faults in chassis systems and components.
Diagnosis for Repair of Engine and Component FaultsReal unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know the requirements to undertake safe diagnostic testing of diesel engines.
- Know the different types of diesel and LPG engines.
- Know the applicable applications of diesel and LPG engines.
- Diagnose faults on engine systems using the correct tools and equipment.
- Understand how LPG and Diesel engines are constructed.
- Understand how LPG and Diesel engines operate.
- Rectify faults on engine systems following diagnosis.
Electrical Equipment and Circuits Fault DiagnosisReal unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to undertake diagnostic testing of electrical equipment safely.
- Understand how systematic diagnostic techniques are used in identifying electrical system faults.
- Explain how systematic diagnostic techniques are used in identifying electrical system faults.
- Understand how to analyse the evident symptoms of electrical system faults.
- Understand the relevant causes of electrical system faults.
- Rectify faults in electrical systems following diagnosis.
Transmission and Driveline Fault DiagnosisReal unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know the different types of transmissions and drivelines.
- Know the applications of different transmissions and drivelines.
- Diagnose faults in transmission systems using the correct tools and equipment.
- Understand the correct procedures to be applied to diagnosing faults in transmission systems.
- Understand the correct documentation to be applied to diagnosing faults in transmission systems.
- Understand the correct process to be applied to diagnosing faults in transmission systems.
- Diagnose faults in transmission systems.
- Rectify faults in transmission systems.
Working in a Maintenance Repair EnvironmentReal unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the health and safety requirements in a maintenance repair environment.
- Understand the health and safety roles and responsibilities in a maintenance repair environment.
- Understand the application of Health & Safety regulations in a maintenance repair environment.
- Know Environmental Management Procedures within a maintenance repair environment.
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 3 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
Meet all twelve tutorsWhere this connects
Where these credits take you
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Where this can lead
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See the whole journey →Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit provides learners with knowledge of chassis systems and components, focusing on safe diagnostic testing. Learners will understand system interactions, identify faults using appropriate techniques, and recognise causes and symptoms to support effective fault diagnosis and repair.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for ETCAL Level 3 Certificate in Repair and Maintenance Engineering
5 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ETC Awards Limited.
- Chassis System and Component Faults Diagnosis
- Diagnosis for Repair of Engine and Component Faults
- Electrical Equipment and Circuits Fault Diagnosis
- Transmission and Driveline Fault Diagnosis
- Working in a Maintenance Repair Environment
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.