Driving Lessons
8 Tips to Help You Pass Your Driving Test the First Time
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When learning to drive, and ultimately taking your test, take heed of these 8 tips and your chances of passing the test first time will improve dramatically.
1. The most important thing you can do is invest in worthwhile driving lessons. Do no automatically choose the cheapest lessons you can find. Usually something is cheap for a reason. Choose lessons based on quality and reputation. Try to get recommendations from previous customers, and have a chat with the instructors to get a feel for them before handing over any money.
2. Clarify with the driving school exactly how long each lesson is. Does it include pick up time? Paperwork? How much time are you actually going to spend learning. Ten minutes here and there can add up to some major lost learning time.
3. Where possible avoid a trainee instructor. Whilst it is true that instructors need to gain experience before becoming fully qualified, you stand the best chance of passing your test if you take lessons form an experience driving instructor. You are paying money so you should get the best tuition for that money.
4. Check the condition of the car that the instructor uses. You want a reliable, and average car to get an accurate feel of how to drive. Remember that when you do your test, it is more than likely to be held in a different car to the one you learnt in. Try to get some experience driving different cars.
5. Do your pre test preparation properly, that means studying your theory book, and getting friends and family to test you. The better prepared you are, the easier your theory test will be.
6. Apply to take your theory test as soon as you begin lessons. Its best to get the theory test done and out of the way, so you can concentrate on the actually driving.
7. Keep your lessons regular. It is proven that regular lessons is the best way to learn. Intensive courses have higher failure rates as you are trying to cram in too much in too short a period of time. If you spread the lessons out over too long a period of time, you will waste too much time reacquainting yourself with what your learnt previously, rather than learning new things.
8. Have one last practice lesson right before your test. This will build confidence, and really does help with the pass rate.
By: James Culvers
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Choosing a Driving Instructor For Your Driving Lessons
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Tags: Dsa, Franchise Fees, Training On The Job
When you choose a driving instructor, there are several things you should look for. The most important thing is looking to see whether the instructor is actually fully qualified. You can find this out before you even get into the car.
All DSA approved driving instructors must by law display a badge in the windscreen of their car when giving paid tuition. If there is no badge on display, the instructor could be working illegally and not even be a driving instructor.
If the instructor displays a PINK badge, that means they are not fully qualified. It means they have passed 2 of the 3 exams needed to be a driving instructor, but have not yet passed the final (most important) exam, which tests their ability to instruct. The pink badge means they are ‘training on the job’ and just getting experience for their final exam. If they fail the exam 3 times, they will not be able to instruct anymore and you would have to find another instructor.
A GREEN badge means the instructor is fully qualified.
Many large schools like BSM sponsor trainees. They do not have to inform you that your instructor will not be fully trained and qualified.
Most good driving instructors would build their business from recommendations. Some instructors might choose to work for a company like BSM so they get work given to them. They have to pay very high franchise fees (around £300 per week) to BSM in order to use their name and car.
When choosing an instructor, the best option would be to ask friends if they would recommend the person they learnt with, and don’t go with the cheapest in town.
You have to ask yourself: if driving instructors are charging silly prices for lessons, is this the only way they can get work? If they were good instructors getting many recommendations and could be charging £20 per hour, why are they working for £10?
By: Jennifer Phippard
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Are You Nervous About Taking Your Driving Test?
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Tags: Composure, Driving Test, Manoeuvre
As a close colleague of one of Wolverhampton’s foremost driving instructor, I have been around the driving school scene for over twenty years.
The one thing I have observed, over an over again, is the constant fear which seems to consume every other pupil which I have known who has taken Wolverhampton driving lessons, for at least a number of months.
Strangely, most pupils would have undergone other types of examinations before, (definitely at school and possibly at college or work, etc) but even if they had been apprehensive they had somehow found a way to cope with it.
However, when it comes to the driving test it is commonplace to see competent pupils suddenly losing their composure as they approach their test or worse still, whilst they are actually on the test.
When I have spoken with my Wolverhampton driving instructor colleague and asked him what he thought was behind the high failure rate of pupils who couldn’t control their nerves and what advice he personally gives his own students, this is how he responded.
He said, “Usually a pupil is worried that they are going to make a mistake at some stage of their driving test and fail as a result of the excessive stress”.
“When I realise that a pupil is concerned about their driving test, I tend to address it as soon as possible by trying to get to the heart of the real problem”.
“I begin by going through the list of manoeuvres one by one, and ask them if they are confident with say, reversing, and then I might possibly ask them if they confident when approaching a junction? etc, etc”.
“As a pupil answers yes to each question, I usually end up with the true reason they are nervous about taking a test because if they are truly ready to take their test, there is only usually one or two manoeuvre that they are not confident about”
Suddenly I understand what he was getting at!
When a pupil is left with only one or two manoeuvres that he has to focus on, it is much easier to deal with any nerves they may have had because they now realise that they are not really worried about the whole driving test but just the part(s) where they have a genuine weakness and it is much easier for the instructor to address the problem.
Additionally, by talking through any nerves with the instructor, the pupil has bought their concern out into the open and this enable the ‘problem’ to be eliminated.
Keeping concerns inside you is never a good thing and by utilising this approach, my driving instructor friend has developed a proven system which has enabled him to obtain one of the highest pass rates amongst pupils who have been taking Wolverhampton driving lessons over the last twenty years.
By: O Sampson
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Truck Driving Schools
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Tags: National Truck Drivers School, Skill Knowledge, Us Department Of Education
Hundreds of companies are search for reliable, trustworthy, and skilled truck drivers. And to inculcate the aforementioned skills, many Truck Driving Schools have sprung up in all corners of the country.
But this crowd of schools makes our job even more difficult. The problem remains–how to choose the right school? Despite this huge number of Truck Driving Schools in the country, there are few indeed which have met the highest standards.
Schools can be divided into three types–schools licensed by the state, which means that the school has met the minimum standards set by the state; certified schools, which means that it has met the standards of skill, knowledge, and curriculum set by Professional Truck Driver Institute (PTDI) of Virginia; and accredited schools, which have the highest standards as they are approved and accredited by the US Department of Education.
Truck Driving Schools usually offer a mixture of classroom and on-road lessons. After imparting and making the students strong in the basics of truck driving, they take them out to the road to get real hands-on experience. Good schools also offer hours of one-to-one driving practice on well-maintained machines.
Some schools which not only offer truck driving training but also help assist in further internships and placements include the following–Fox Valley Technical College, SAGE, Diesel Driving Academy, Isothermal Community College, LCTI Professional Truck Driving School, KIM Richardson Transportation Specialists, Western Pacific Truck School, Georgia Driving Academy, and American Truck Driving School.
Accredited Driving Schools such as Diesel Driving Academy, National Truck Drivers School, International Institute of Transportation Resource, Inc, and Georgia Driving Academy offer placement opportunities. Georgia Driving Academy provides ‘pre-hire employment offers’ even before graduation.
SAGE has earned the reputation of being among the top Truck Driving Schools in the country. It provides both beginners as well as advanced driving courses, and helps its students to develop their profiles and get placements in established companies.
By: Kent Pinkerton
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Advanced Driving Lessons – It’s Not A Car, It’s An Adventure
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Tags: High Speeds, Safety Helmet, Speed Car
If you’ve ever wondered whether those high-speed car chases in the movies are all computer generated, well, not, they are not. There are actual stunt drivers who really know how to handle cars in such a way that they appear to defy gravity, and live to tell about it.
While those levels of driving skill are somewhat instinctive, there are advanced driving lessons available for anyone who wants to learn driving techniques he or she will never need in the course of the morning commute. Police, for instance, are required to take advanced driving lessons so that they survive those high-speed car chases which have become regular features on the evening news.
There’s a reason why the criminals fleeing the police in the high-speed car chases usually end up wrapped around a tree or telephone pole. They never benefited from any advanced driving lessons, and were beaten before they left the starting gate. But if you think being able to handle a motor vehicle at high speeds and in unpredictable circumstances seems like a useful, or even enjoyable, skill, advanced driving lessons may be just what you need.
What To Expect
The schools and instructors which provide advanced driving lessons all need to pass the license exams which allow them to teach driving skills. You’ll be provided with safety equipment, including a helmet, before you begin you advanced driving lessons, which will be given on the safety of an unoccupied track.
The instruction car in which you will get your advanced driving lessons will, like driver’s education cars, have a set of brakes both for you and for your instructor. You may have some classroom instruction, but your actual advanced driving lessons will probably last only two or three hours, and while they won’t elevate you to Hollywood stunt driver status, will teach you techniques which can get you out of tight traffic situations for a long time to come.
What You Will Learn
To succeed at your advanced driving lessons [http://www.seekdefensivedriving.com/category/the-defensive-driving-instructor-course], you’ll have to concentrate completely on how your car is handling and what direction it is taking. You’ll learn that driving at high speeds requires you to anticipate and brake for turns much more quickly than you do at 30mph. You’ll also learn how to control your car during a skid, a skill which all by itself is worth the price of the advanced driving lessons.
And the price can be steep, from hundreds to thousands of dollars depending on the number of advanced driving skills involved. So don’t commit to any advanced driving lessons without first determining the school’s refund policy.
By: Jonathan Andrew
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