The 7.5 hour days. How do people find them, is there an hour break inbetween for lunch?
With the training across four days, is the test on the fifth day with a warmup beforehand?
We don’t do 7.5hr days. The longest day is 7 hrs 1:1 with a couple of tea breaks. We do this regularly over weekends with 7 hrs Sat, 7hrs Sun and test Monday. Pass rate every bit as high as any other course. But it wouldn’t suit everybody.
Our “normal” course is 4 sessions of 3.5hrs with test on day 5. No warm up. No need. Proven to be an excellent method and given us one of the highest pass rates in the UK. So the figures speak for themselves.
Our residential course starts on a Monday, continues Tues, Wed and Thurs and is scheduled so that the test is at the end of day 4. This minimises time away from home rather than spread it onto the 5th day. It will often work that there is an hour or two prior to test.
The reasons that our courses are shorter than is often offered and yet more successful are the fact that the training is carried out by highly trained, fully qualified and registered instructors using virtually new vehicles (they’re not new if they are 2 days old) that are specially built for the job. The training is followed by test at our private test centre so absolutely zero time is spent travelling backwards and forwards to test routes. They start at our gate. The reversing is practiced on precisely the same bit of concrete that will be used for test. With so much stacked in favour of the candidate, we can well afford to reduce the training time. We didn’t originally, but the course was becoming stretched just to fill the time. We’re dealing with grown adults here who simply want to get on with learning and achieve the outcome. And we’ve found the formula. Been running this way for the last 9 years and not about to change for the sake of it.
Hope this helps, Pete 