One Week Driving Pass

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We often get people asking us what the quickest way to pass a driving test is – and though we can help a lot of people through their driving test successfully with only 6 days of training, the fact is that many people will have to wait up to 10 weeks before we can arrange a course for them.

With a waiting time of around 3 weeks for the theory test, and around 7 weeks for practical driving test appointments – it is often a better course of action to book driving lessons with a good local instructor, taking 2 or more 90 minute or 2 hour lessons a week for 10 weeks will mean that you get a lot of practice, and have time for the learning to sink in properly.

There is a place for intensive courses – they are simple to fit around work and life commitments, but the simplest, most successful (and often cheapest) way to learn to drive is still to take regular lessons.

If you are unsure about which method of learning will suit you the best, we may be able to help you with an assessment day in your area:

info@OneWeekDrivingPass.co.uk

Why is Blackpool the centre of the Intensive Driving Course universe?! Every day we must get 10% of our search engine hits from searches looking for intensive courses in Blackpool!

There’s a lot of intensive driving course companies based there, despite it’s test centre being placed in a very busy area (probably why many of the courses which start in Blackpool end up driving miles away on the final day for a test in Heysham, Wigan or Preston – in areas where their customers have never driven).

Be a bit careful – though I am sure there may be some good intensive course companies based in Blackpool, there are certainly some bad ones. When booking your course look out for how many of you will be in the same car – they often sell courses for 2 drivers to 1 car – how do you fancy sitting in the back of the car for half the time (or more if the other driver is slower to pick things up).

Another hazard, as mentioned above is where you will be taking your test. All of our tests are carried out in the area that you book your training for – but the many residential companies will train you in one area then because of difficulties getting test times they will move you anything up to a couple of hundred miles to do your test in an unfamiliar test centre.

If the intensive course company arrange your accomodation for you – find out where you will be staying and what is included in the price – often this is an excellent source of income for driving course companies – they pay a cheap hotel £100 a week for your bed and breakfast, but you pay £200. It is worth calling the hotel yourself – don’t mention the driving course (they may know about the scam) and ask their prices.

So, if you want to learn to drive – why choose Blackpool?

We quite often get asked what our pass rate is, and we’re always reluctant to answer for a few reasons:

1: Pass rates can easily be twisted around – we could legitimately tell you we have a pass rate of 39% or a pass rate of 87% – both of these figures would be true, but which one would you expect us to advertise?!

2: Pass rates are dependent upon the customer base – ADIs who specialise in training young men will tend to have a higher pass rate than an instructor who specialises in nervous or disabled drivers, but which ADI would you expect to have the harder job? Maybe even more important – which ADI would you expect to have the most skill and experience?

3: Pass Rates for companies who specialise in intensive courses are naturally lower than those who deal with weekly lessons – the intensive course customer (especially the residential intensive customer) will usually only take 1 test with the intensive company – and with a first time pass average across the UK of only 17.5% – the intensive company will be at a disadvantage. The weekly lessons company can take you back, and back again, and with the majority of people apparently taking 4 tests, this means that the weekly lesson company should have a pass rate of at least 25%.

Just so you know – our pass rate is better than the average, and our training is second to none, but don’t get dragged into comparing pass rates – they confuse all of us, and help none!

We’ve been up and running for a while now, and we’ve noticed people search for some very strange things!

The usual one is the “guaranteed pass” which we have dealt with in the “myths” section, but recently we’ve started to get people searching for “one DAY intensive course” and similar terms! Even we’re not that good that we can get you through your test in a DAY!

If we’ve turned up on a random search please tell us – it always makes us giggle!

With the changes due to the driving test and the extension of the qualification period to a year – intensive courses will have to change.

No longer will you be able to take a one week course like ours, but you will have to take several short courses spread through the year to gain experience of driving under different conditions.

Don’t worry though – we’ll still be around to help you fit learning to drive around your busy lifestyle.