Why we changed our lessons to fifty minutes and how this saves our customers money!

New for April 2011 we changed the length of our driving lessons from full hour lessons to only fifty minutes. This is in direct response to the Driving Standards Agency new business plan for 2011/2012.

At ARC Driver Training Centre we can provide the best learning to drive courses, great driving instruction and driver coaching, but we work in partnership with the Driving Standards Agency who are responsible for driving tests.

One of the key performance measures that the Driving Standards Agency have for the year is:

"We will make appointments available with 9 weeks at 90% of permanent car driving test centres."

Now being experience driver trainers, we know that the best way to learn to drive is a goal (objective) targeted course that has clear time scales and consistent learning opportunities (lessons) That is why we recommend completing two double lessons a week. We have always said that learning to drive by having one lesson per week for x number of weeks is an in-effective way of learning to drive and often results in spending far more money than necessary.

Working within the Driving Standards Agency targets of 9 weeks wait for a practical driving test, that would mean then that students would need to pass their theory test in week one to achieve a suitable driving test in week ten/eleven, drastically limiting our opportunity to help them prepare for their theory test.

By cutting down our standard lesson duration (and reducing the price with it)  we can now schedule 12 week driving courses, with the theory test in week 3 and practical driving test 10 weeks later in week 13.

Forty hours spread across 12 weeks, fits the current targets of the Driving Standards Agency service standards and testing and is a better deal for our customers.

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