Intensive Driving Courses

tortoiseshellcat

Hi I just wondered if anyone knows anything about intensive driving courses please? As in a course to get you through your driving test. My two sons have both had plenty of lessons but I have a feeling the instructor might be hanging on to them as customers rather than putting them through their tests.

I just wondered if anyone knows of any good company that you can pay upfront for an intensive course that will make you 'test-ready'.

Also does anyone have any idea how much this might cost? I feel they should have both had enough lessons to do their tests by now so would like to give them some help here if possible. (They have both had over a year of lessons now).

Thanks.

Trebor16

How many lessons have your sons had in that period of time if you don't mind me asking?

TrickyWicky

I had 26-28 hours of lessons before I passed. My partner had 30 I think.

Break that up into 2hr lessons once a week and you'll see that it can take a while to pass.

atrixblue.-MFR-.

its not in the best interests of the instructor to put forward a student not ready for his test it affects their pass fail ratio as an instructor.

have you expressed your concerns to the instructor just tell you son next time he's out to tell instructor to hang on for five as parents wants a chat.

perhaps, it would be OK with you to insure your sons on your car to get further more tuition, as well as monitor their progress.

Trebor16

atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »

perhaps, it would be OK with you to insure your sons on your car to get further more tuition, as well as monitor their progress.

If the sons are both under 21 that will hike the insurance premium considerably to add them as named drivers.

whitewing

I thought I'd read around 40 hours of lessons is recommended but obviously it would vary according to the individual. Why not just state to the instructor that you want them entered? If they are not ready, they won't pass. I found though that driving just clicked one day. So you can do it for ages then suddenly make a big improvement. I didn't even put in for my test until I felt ready. Could probably have done it earlier but did pass first time.

whitewing

Sorry, just seen over a year of lessons. That does sound plenty enough. Maybe the sons need to start paying for lessons themselves.

blue_haddock

I do think that some instructors are keen to keep their pupils having many hours of lessons as possible as its their only source of income so rather than pushing them to take their test they are happy for them to keep practicing.

I would recommend you book a driving test for say 6 weeks time and then tell the instructor that they have that date to work towards in getting them ready and if they do end up failing you will take them to a different instructor as this one is obvisously not interested in getting them up to the required standard.

Rolandtheroadie

blue_haddock wrote: »

I would recommend you book a driving test for say 6 weeks time

mmmmm, Tuesday 6 weeks from today. I've already got a couple of tests that day, cant fit you in, sorry.

Had this exact conversation with my niece a couple of days ago when she was thinking of booking her own test.

Then theres the possible step backwards changing instructor and car with no guarantee they are any better than the current one(assuming the current one isnt very good).

bucksmum_2

Have a look at drivinghelp.com. My friend has just told me about this site because her son needed to gain confidence and experience which he was not getting from his one hour lesson once a week. The site has loads of driving lesson videos which have been made by a Grade 6 instructor. Got to be worth a try before spending out on an intensive course.

cajef

blue_haddock wrote: »

I would recommend you book a driving test for say 6 weeks time and then tell the instructor that they have that date to work towards in getting them ready and if they do end up failing you will take them to a different instructor as this one is obvisously not interested in getting them up to the required standard.

Most instructors I knew would have told you they will only take someone for test if they are reasonably confident they will pass, if someone told me you have six weeks to get someone up to test standard before being able to see how competent they were I would have told them to find another instructor.