I took the apprenticeship as an FA Sales Specialis...

I took the apprenticeship as an FA Sales Specialist here, and was able to successfully take the sticky pilot exam after the new reform.
I attended 100% of the lessons, solved every task and completed the internal semester and final exams with a good result.

So you can succeed, as in almost every school, with ambition, determination and diligence also at the GET.

Denoch, 2 stars are justified in my personal experience, but I had to note serious weaknesses in the service provided. Here's something structured and in detail, which led to my moderate rating:

Organization / Secretariat / Information Flow
Everything is still in butter here. The timetable came relatively late, but still in the frame and was subsequently changed only slightly and the information about it was timely and clean instead of via email. Good accessibility, I could not fault the organization as such. Notabene are the basics and may be demanded in view of the elevated course fee also strictly.

Lecturers / Learning Methods / Lessons
There were huge differences here. The course was supported by 9 lecturers. There were 5 very good to excellent people at work, including some who impressed me deeply and I am grateful to have met such brilliant minds.
Unfortunately, and that does not lick Geiss away, the other 4 were terrible. If I had to create a mind map, the following keywords would appear on the whiteboard:
Chaotic lessons, boring presented, no common thread, more chatter than teaching and z.T. offensive and borderline insulting statements to the students. No go!

Infrastructure / facility
In my opinion, the infrastructure should be urgently invested instead of always being skimmed off. It may be that the technology was state-of-the-art 15 years ago, but time does not stand still. I did the Markomm 3 years ago at the KV Zurich and can compare well, here goes more today. Much more!
The decor looks a bit jumbled, almost every one of the few school rooms has a different furniture. Looks to me second-hand, which is my subjective impression.
Everything is expedient and works for the most part, even if not all lecturers know how to use the technology confidently, but the state of the art is more than exhausted.
It is often too cold in winter, and in the summer pressing hot into the school room, by the situation is an open window but only during the break conceivable, otherwise it is so loud that a reasonable learning is not even think. Air conditioning and heating? All avoidable costs?

My opinion about GET Winterthur:

GET: education for the undemanding

Too bad for the z.T. high-profile lecturers and even more regrettable for the students.