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    DRIVING ON THE ROAD > Lesson Duration & Intensive Courses
 
You can usually choose how long each of your lessons lasts. One hour is most common, but if you want to be collected and taken back home you may not get a full hour of driving.
It's worth thinking about what will suit you best before you book any lessons. For those who are really impatient to pass their test, an intensive course may be the answer.

 How long should driving lessons be?

How long? There is no perfect lesson size - what matters is what's right for you. You need to think about the following:
  • How much time you have available
  • How much you can afford to pay per week
  • Whether you live in the town where you will take your test
  • Whether your driving lesson will include theory training
  • How much stamina you have
  • Whether you have a deadline to work to

 Can I have what I want ?

The most common driving lesson durations are one hour, one-and-a-half hours and two hours. But if you really want one-and-a quarter hour lessons, why should you not have them?

Here are some thoughts that might be relevant to you ....
= If you live 15 minutes out of town, and you want to be collected from and brought back home, you will get a maximum of 30 minutes town driving in a one hour lesson. Is that enough for you? A one-and-a-half hour lesson might be more useful. Or could you meet the instructor in town and keep it to one hour?
= Providing the lesson is stimulating, you may achieve more in a two hour lesson than two one hour lessons - partly because of the continuity, partly because there may be less time used up in planning and reviewing the lesson topics.
= Note that some driving schools run 50 minute lessons; take that into account when comparing "lesson" prices.

Try different lesson lengths and pick the one that works best!

INTENSIVE COURSES

If you have a deadline to work to, a semi-intensive or intensive course would probably be what you need.

How should I choose between....

 *normal,
*semi-intensive,
*intensive courses ?

First of all it might be helpful for you
to know what is generally meant by these terms:

normal implies around 1-2 hours per week, in one or two lessons.

semi-intensive implies around 3-8 hours per week, with a course being completed in approximately one month.

intensive implies around 10-24 hours per week, with a course being completed in 1-2 weeks.
If you have some deadline you want or need to work to, you may need a semi-intensive or even an intensive course structure. However, our advice is that you should avoid the full intensive course structure (which often means 4-6 hours' driving every day for a week) if at all possible, by planning your course in plenty of time before your deadline.

If you can't, well OK, go for it. But be aware: learning to drive involves a huge input of information into the brain. If that is forced to happen at a very rapid rate, it can become rather overpowering. This puts a strain on you, and it's not easy for the instructor either! So pick one with a good sense of humour, and keep yours too!

RESIDENTIAL COURSES

If you want to get away from it all and live, eat, sleep and think DRIVING for a week or two, why not consider a residential driving course? You will join a happy band of like minded learners and generally have a great time -
until driving test day that is!

Our Residential Driving Courses section will help you locate driving schools which provide residential courses at a variety of locations
- including the seaside!

 Courses at the seaside!
   
 
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