All inclusive courses are where everything is folded together into one price to give an impression of a good deal.
The price may look like a great deal, but with some driving schools details of courses, on what to expect, are vague and never clear.
Intensive driving courses shorten the time taken to learn to drive. Everything is learnt in just days. By comparison, hourly/weekly tuition takes an average 14 months for a student to reach driving test standard.
To become Qualified a driving instructor will have passed 3 exams. Trainee instructors will have passed the first 2, and will be under supervision by a qualified instructor.
Trainee instructors can teach for money while practicing and gaining their instruction abilities.
Only fully qualified instructors work for A Team, we have no trainee instructors.
Driving test passes are consistently above 70% with intensive courses. By comparison the national pass rate for all driving tests taken is currently 43%.
Guaranteed Pass, Guarantee Bond, or Pass Guarantee are marketing words and tactics used to entice you to book with that driving school. Their Guarantee at best, is a few hours of free tuition if you retake your driving test with them, not that you will pass your driving test
Although the taking of both tests in the same week in theory is possible there is a high
element of risk. Driving schools offering these courses are asking that YOU gamble. (1) You will pass the theory test. (2) That they can find a driving test at short notice.
On average up to 20% of the weekly lesson is spent on recapping the previous lesson. Further time is spent on travelling between the lesson starting places and training areas. With intensive courses the need for recapping is almost eliminated, and travelling time is kept to a minimum which will mean more tuition in less hours.
Shared tuition is where 2 students are trained together. This type of course gives best results if the students are friends and can work as a team. Students who are strangers often do not gel and training suffers. A Team only takes students who know each other for shared tuition
Driving Tests are normally conducted Monday to Friday and at certain times during the day.
Some test centres offer Saturday tests and in the summer sometimes evening tests.
Providing your theory test has been passed your driving test will be in the course final hour. Date, time and place of your driving test will be shown in your course confirmation letter.
It is important that you have some knowledge of roads in the area where you will be taking your test
Driving tests are always taken in the same Town and area as your main training took place.
You are required to show all relevant documents to the examiner for your driving test to take place. If you are missing any parts, tell your driving instructor straight away and he should be able to help.
We are told by the Driving Standards Agencey that "If the
candidate is presented for the driving test at test standard
there is no reason for them not to obtain a pass". They
also inform us there is no PASS RATE but there is a NORM
on the amount of passes for each driving test centre. We
leave it for you to decide what this means
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