The "Unrealistic expectations/disappointments" category in Table 13 presented three different cases. One was a 42 year old man who wanted to get his Grade 12 to become a physical education teacher. He placed at the BASD level. His comment was that they were a one-income family and he could not afford to put himself through school for the time required. Another respondent was a 44 year old woman who wanted to be an Aide. She believed she had adequate English skills for the program, but she placed at ABE Introductory English. Her comment was that she felt she would not pass the English course nor learn anything from it. The third person wanted Grade 12 in order to enter a dental assistant program, but the low placement - ABE Introductory English - caused her to take a high school biology course and do some more thinking. She was 19 years old.

The “Lack of follow-up” category involved the older woman and one of the Native women. They had both been told that someone would get back to them, but they said nobody had, and they had not followed up themselves. The older woman was given an option of classes or one-to-one tutoring. The Native woman's class involved an off-campus centre.

The "conflicts" involved two people who felt their assessment placements contradicted their prior experience. One had finished a basic vocational skill course (BVSD) and was told he was ready for ABE Introductory, but the assessment placed him in BASD and this conflicting situation deterred him from enrolling. The other man was also placed in BASI), but he maintained he had received Grade 10 and Grade 12 results at another program and he was "not going to start at Grade 8."

Of the 19 respondents, 12 said they had never been to other ABE programs while 7 had. Three of the Natives had taken courses offered on their reserves. One person had gone to a community literacy program; another had gone to an alternate school; and two persons had been to Camosun College before.

When asked would they try to register at the college in the future, four of the sample said they would in 1990, eleven said they would later. Two said they would not, but one was moving out of the province. There was one conditional answer dependent on the outcome of surgery. One gave no answer.