Scottish intensive driving courses - Which course?
Scottish intensive driving courses are designed so that you can learn at any pace you desire. I will encourage you and show you the way to attain the knowledge needed to become a qualified driver in the shortest time possible for your own personal circumstances, without compromising safety.
The driver training given with this intensive driving course is ideal for the absolute beginner & nervous student who has no previous experience or the learner driver who has taken a driving test or two previously.
Each intensive driving course is designed to have driving lesson periods of between one and up to three hour sessions, with suitable breaks inbetween. The maximum number of driving lessons each day would be six. Should you decide to have the full day of driving lessons then you would have your lessons in three 2 hour sessions.
Scottish intensive driving courses will help you to become a safe confident driver in a short amount of time. All intensive courses can reduce the time it takes to learn to drive by up to 2 years, yes that's not a typo. I know personally of students who have been driving the old fashioned way for 5 years at one lesson per week. Here is the math: Intensive driving courses for an absolute beginner will, on average, take 50/60 hours to reach driving test standard over 3/5 weeks. [New learner drivers are advised to take their course in two parts. Part One 5/7 day intensive course ÷ Part Two 2/3 days intensive course immediatly before your driving test. Full details written below]
One lesson per week would probably mean over 50/60 lessons need to be taken and that would take a minimum of just under 2 years when you consider holidays (yours & your driving instructors), illness, lack of money, your driving instructor is too busy & the lack of motivation since the learning process is drawn out. The shorter time in terms of days it takes you to learn to drive the more you will be motivated since you will seeyour progress day by day.
Scottish intensive driving courses - How they work
Full intensive driving courses are in two parts for new drivers
A new learner driver is recommended to have either a full 7 day intensive driving course of around 40 hours or a 5 day course of 30 hours. This will give a great grounding to get you going. By the end of the 7 day intensive driving course most students are able to drive the car reasonably safely from A to B including reversing, turning around in the road, parallel parking, bay parking (if required), driving along a dual carriageway,traffic lights, roundabouts and a sound knowledge of most driving situations including the rules of the road.
At the end of your 7 day intensive driving course you will then have a well earned break of a week or two before taking your final part of the course. The final part of your intensive driving course will be around 2/3 days depending on how well you did on your 7 day course. Your driving test will be imediately at the end of these final days. This process produced a 100% pass rate for 2007/2009.
Intensive driving courses. Why the break? Over the years the driving test has changed & so must the way you learn to drive change. Gone are the days you could take your first driving lesson on a Monday then your driving test the following Friday. That was alright when you only needed 20 driving lessons to pass your test & no theory test requirement.
European regulations are now in force for all learner drivers which means you have to take a theory test before you can take your driving test [A theory test pass is NOT required for an intensive driving course. All courses come with theory test advice & coaching]. This also means a stricter driving test marking method is now being applied where you have your minor driving faults & overall driving performance taken into consideration before you can pass your driving test. The break between your first part of your intensive driving course & the second part is designed to let your brain process all of the new information you would have gained from your first intensive course. Driving between both parts of your course, either with myself or a relative is good to enhance all that you were taught on the first part of the course.
Intensive driving courses ideal for nervous students
DSA recommended average driving lessons
Scottish intensive driving courses - a few suggestions
- New learner driver with no experience: 7 day 40 hour course + 2/3 days after a break then test
- New learner driver with no experience: 5 day course + 5 day course after a break then test
- Learner driver with 10 or 20 recent lessons 5/7 day course then test
- Learner driver who has failed a test or two recently 3/5 day course then test
These are only rough guides as no two people learn at the same pace. email your requirements
Intensive driving courses structured learning
Scottish intensive driving courses - Theory test
A theory test pass certificate is not required on your intensive driving course for any new learner driver. Theory test training is given as part of your driving lessons. However if you have already had over 20 hours of driving lesson practice & wish to take your driving test at the end of your course, then it will be required.
Theory test
Scottish intensive driving courses - Driving test
To pass a driving test you are going to need around 50/60 good quality driving lessons. This cannot & should not be attempted all in one go. Gone are the days when a new driver could start their first driving lesson on Monday & take their driving test the following Friday. That may have been ok when you only needed 20 driving lessons to pass your test.
Because of the introduction of the longer driving test & busier roads you will not have time to process all of the new information you need to pass a driving test.
All learner drivers who learn to drive on a Scottish intensive driving course are ready to pass their driving test at the time they take it. Confident & full of the knowledge that they know they can 'Do It'. Should that stage not be reached then they do not take their test until they know they can 'Do It'. A simple but effective formulae for your success.
Driving test
You Know You can Do It
