AA Driving Instructors (AA The Driving School)

Member Name: cendol

Product:	AA The Driving School
Date:	28/06/02 (1545 review reads)
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Advantages: Qualified Instructor, Punctual

Disadvantages: Franchise System, Expensive

I actually have a foreign driver's license but having not driven for a long time, I decided to take up some lessons with the AA Driving School to get a UK driver's license.

My first few lessons were all right and I had a patient, helpful and funny instructor to begin with. However after weeks and now months, I have a totally different view of my instructor. My driving test is coming soon and I just dread my lessons. All he can do is drop really sarcastic comments about how unprepared I am and just picks on me constantly, nagging about the most trivial details. When I do my manoeuvres, he will just bark out orders to make me panic.

Personally, I think my driving is fine.. who knows, I may be wrong but I certaining do not like his attitude. He insisted I take more lessons before my test and when I said that I couldn't afford so many, he said that he had the right not to let me do the test if he thinks that I am not ready. Hello??? I think the student should decide if he/she wants to sit the test... and let the examiner decide. This can't be right, as the student is at the instructor's disposal and forced to pay for more lessons that required. To me, he just cares about how much money he can get (since instructors are franchise based.)

On a brighter note, I did receive advice on how to drive carefully, dos and don'ts, etc. The usual things expected from doing the lessons.

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