Hi all, wanted to post a little about my experience so far.
On the whole it’s been pretty terrible! I wont name the company I have been using so far, but up to now ive had multiple reverse test failures one I will happily take responsibility for and the first I wont due to poor facilities/circumstances.
After finally passing my 3a I felt pretty confident, driving forwards was the easy bit I thought. I proved myself wrong there!
Several failures later and now in a position where my employer will no longer fund it I found myself questioning the trainer I was using, had I been getting enough actual tuition?
I felt a lack of feedback on what I was doing and wasn’t really being given the tools to understand why I was turning when I was for example. I even had one examiner explaining something to me after a fail that my instructor hadn’t mentioned in hours of training.
At the end of the day on my money I wanted a better opportunity at a pass, and someone else to take a look at how I drive and see where I was honestly at.
After much time spent on Google I found this forum and then followed on to looking at Peter smythe transport, I went for an assessment drive yesterday and it was a totally different experience, the staff were friendly and quick to get back to you on the phone and very welcoming when I got there a few minutes late after a flat on the a50. I got a good amount of feedback at the end of the drive and given an estimate of how many hours to iron out any flaws and learn the area.
I have until June to complete before I would have to do reverse test again and luckily it looks as though they are going to be able to fit that in for me.
Being honest before yesterday I was starting to feel totally despondent about the whole thing.
Sorry for the long first post but I hope it serves as a little bit of reinforcement to others out there to stick at it.
