I wanna: Learn To Drive For FREE

trini_honey

See Tesco clubcard section on website....See here

Ellie2758

welshliz wrote:

plus because I have a NUS card I get £2 off every lesson I take so it will cost me £19 per hour

Is that £2 off every lesson with just BSM or any instructor?

tightperson

I'd spend them on something more worthwhile like a holiday, or a present off buyagift. Unless you bought 20000 packs of beef in gravy, in which case I guess you can't spend them quick enough!

Bobbybee2[/QUOTE]

Well, I only bought 10,000 packs of beef and even if I'd bought 20,000 I would have and have spent them on better value deals than BSM.

FLEX24

theres a comp to win lessons in COMPETITIONS TIME forum

lellie

Don't go with BSM. They make you use more lessons than you need and cost a fortune.. I paid £14 a lesson with my instructor.. he'd been in the business 30 years and was excellent. I'd have paid over £20 for BSM. It soons adds up if you take the average amount of 30/40 hours lessons.

gentlepurr

had to giggle yesterday, i was following a learner driver, and the name of the school on the top of his car read

one L of a driver

xx good luck all!

welshliz

Ellie2758 wrote:

Is that £2 off every lesson with just BSM or any instructor?

Its only with BSM. I got it off the BSM site. Liz

welshliz

lellie wrote:

Don't go with BSM. They make you use more lessons than you need and cost a fortune.. I paid £14 a lesson with my instructor.. he'd been in the business 30 years and was excellent. I'd have paid over £20 for BSM. It soons adds up if you take the average amount of 30/40 hours lessons.

What company did you use then? Thanks.

RobDaykin

I am a BSM driving instructor and would just like to clear up a few points.

There is no benefit at all for a BSM instructor to 'waste' time on a lesson paid for with a voucher as this lesson will still be paid in FULL by BSM to the instructor.

I would also personnally not see any benefit from dragging out a pupils training to 'rip them off' whenever I have a pupil pass with me the office are very quick to replace them with a new one. There is also a bonus scheme in place for instructor pass rates so it is in the instructor's interests to see their pupils pass.

If you are not happy with your BSM instructor for whatever reason you can ask to change instructors no questions asked.

A 'local' instructor may well have local road knowledge but to be honest your BSM instructor will most likely be local as well. Travelling for long periods before the pupil drives the car shouldn't happen. If it does ask your instructor why.

Even if a pupil is academically very bright it doesn't mean they will be a naturally driver stright away. With the opposite also true.

Finally some BSM instructors maybe new or trainees, and some may have years of experience but this is the same for independent instructors just because an instructor works for themself doesn't mean you arn't their first lesson. Years in the business doesn't always equal good instructor anyway.

RobDaykin

To help save you money here are my top tips;

Once you start don't stop!! If you really want to pass your driving test, which when you turn 17 is just about a must think first before you rush in. Don't just book a lesson on your birthday if you can't commit to regular lessons. If you take a break of even a week or two it will knock your progress back so much.

If you know you will be struggling for regular lessons due to finance then wait. Save your money up until you can start and commit properly. BSM will offer you generous discounts for booking a block of lessons anyway and RAC breakdown cover when you pass.

Learn the road rules - a highway code will set you back £2, a theory question book over £10. Most of the theory questions are so blindingly obvious due to the wrong answers being blatantly wrong. People guess the right answers but don't know why they are right!! If you take time to study the highway code it will give you a major advantage.

This is especially true as most learners look at other drivers and try to follow their example when the majority of the time they are in the wrong!! So make sure you know your stuff.

Make sure you know where your learning is heading and how you have progressed. BSM provide learners with a 'track record' which is filled in each lesson it shows you how you are progressing. What you are doing well at and what you need to improve at. If you use an independent instructor who doesn't have this make sure they give you some sort of progress report.