It is estimated that a novice driver, who learns by tuition hours once a week, can take up to fourteen months to meet the driving test standard. In intensive driving courses, many students pass their road test after just one week of driving experience. Passing the exam is just one step on the road to becoming a good driver, but an intensive course provides an excellent foundation. With the opportunities these courses present to save time and money, their popularity is growing rapidly.
These courses are generally held every day from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, during which the student’s driver can expect individual enrollment concentrated in a vehicle provided by the driving school. Of course, there are different options available to meet the requirements of almost all beginning drivers. These range from instruction for those who have never been behind the wheel before, to shorter courses for those who recently failed the driving test and want to improve specific skills to retake it as soon as possible.
For many, it is the convenience with which driving skills can be learned and improved that draws them to intensive driving courses. Many people find it difficult to set aside enough time to learn to drive when trying to juggle other demands on their time, such as school, work, or travel commitments. Rather than spending time and money trying to organize weekly lessons over an extended period of time, crash courses offer learner drivers and their families great peace of mind. Learning to drive by the intensive method, everything can be arranged in advance, including the test if desired, and the student can focus on becoming a safe independent driver without other distractions.
The convenience of these courses is not your only advantage. When taking less regular driving lessons, it is tempting, even desirable, to practice newly acquired skills between lessons. Well-meaning friends and relatives who offer advice are often capable drivers themselves, but are usually much less qualified than professional driving instructors. Confusion can arise in the learner’s mind with conflicting advice and can even lead to poor technique taking root in the learner’s mind. The advantage of intensive driving courses is that such faults can be corrected immediately, before they become established. From this point of view, the expert environment in which the intensive courses take place is an excellent setting for learning to drive.
With less intensive teaching, it can also be a problem that a student does not have access to a suitable vehicle to practice between lessons. The cost of insuring a student in the family car can be prohibitively high for many people, especially considering the time it may take to prepare a student for a test with weekly lessons. This may mean that from one week to the next basic skills and the “booth exercise” must be repeated before they are finally learned. It is important that students build on the control and finesse they acquire while learning, rather than having their driving confidence diminished because they forget basic skills between lessons.
These types of intensive courses are used by the emergency services, the army and even by the driving instructors themselves. They are cost effective and allow rapid acquisition of skills. So whether you’ve recently failed an exam, need to quickly pass for the job, or have never driven before, crash-driving courses can quickly turn you into a safe and responsible driver.