I never did any of the jobs in the portfolio, just borrowed a mates company logo and pasted it on all my Tool box talks company letter etc and used my imagination to make the unit jobs dimensions up even got my missus to sign all the units off, obviously cloning the company owners signature.
its not big and its not clever but it is very easy to (blag) sort your own portfolio out even if you ain't still working in the game.... the hardest part was handing over £480 for the 2 day assessment which I did in half a day, as I knew the assessor so he didn't need to see me do the practical...Simples