Is an Intensive Course Right for You?

What the course actually is

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Thirty hours of tuition compressed into two to four weeks, with the practical test booked at the end. Usually five or six hours a day for a working week, or three-hour blocks spread over a fortnight. The test is booked before you start, which is the part that makes it work and also the part that makes it risky.

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It suits you if

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You have driven before, even a little. You have a hard deadline, like a job starting or a move. You can give the fortnight over to it properly rather than fitting it around shifts. And you learn well under pressure rather than shutting down under it.

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It does not suit you if

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You have never sat in a driving seat and you are anxious about it. Thirty hours is enough time to learn to drive, but not enough to learn to drive and get comfortable at the same time. We turn away perhaps one enquiry in five for this reason, and say so.

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The tiring part

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Five hours of concentrated driving is genuinely exhausting for the first three days. Most people find day two the worst, when the novelty has gone and none of it is automatic yet. It lifts on day four.

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What it costs and what it saves

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Our thirty-hour course is £1,290 with the test booked and the car provided. Bought as individual hours that would be £1,140, so the course is £150 more. What you are paying for is the booking, the mocks and the fact that it finishes.

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