Hello sean, i'm planing on travelling early april, when you get the visa the give you document stating you can travel within three months but its better if you go early so within the 33 months you can visit pakistan for 4 weeks.
About the city and guilds test, i think in the near future that test wont be accepted anymore, they are going to discontinue the test, the actual test is an insult to human intelligence, even a primary school student could pass the test.I got my test results back after 35 days.
@docsam you can email them and say you want to escalate your case, they will send u a form that you have to fill and email them back, you can email them from
https://ukvi-international.faq-help.com always send them email from this address by filling the email form and dont reply to their email from ur inbox.
Best of luck friends
EDIT: Some people are asking about photocopies, gerry only takes the original documents, you should keep photocopies for ur own reference.When you go to gerry make sure u take 2 passport size photos with white background.
Applied@islamabad on 8/12/2014
Email received Decision delayed on 11/2/2015
Processed email received on 9 march 2015
10th march visa Granted mashallah