Can i change driving instructor

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Different instructors have different methods and ways of teaching, and if you have become used to your old instructors teaching methods, it could lead to confusion. It may also take you some time to get used to a different vehicle to the one you have previously been learning in, all this added pressure will not help you deal with driving test nerves. If this happens, you could be left trying to frantically find another instructor who is willing to let you use their vehicle or you may even have to cancel your test.

With limited time and insufficient lesson time available, your instructor may not have enough time to assess your strengths and weaknesses to see what they need to work on with you before your test. This week time period gives your new instructor enough time to get an adequate amount of driving lessons in, assess your strengths and weaknesses and put together a plan of action before your test.

This period will also give you time to get familiar with the vehicle and your instructor, giving you the best chance possible of passing your driving test. You may also find it challenging to source another driving instructor at short notice.

Therefore, if you are insistent on changing instructors at short notice, this is something you would need to take into consideration. No reputable instructor will take you for your driving test without having first seen you drive. If you do manage to find an instructor with unlimited availability, who is willing to take you for your test without first seeing you drive, you should question whether or not they are a reputable instructor.

To summarise, we do not advise you to change your driving instructor before your test, especially at short notice. Book a lesson: The problem with giving someone a reason any reason! Can't afford it? I'll drop the price! Car too big? I'll change the car! You end up in a tangle of negotiations that aren't about what you really want. So keep it at "I know what's right for me right now is to take a break. Or, "Full stop", if that's how it's said where you are.

And then you should actually take a break, a couple of months or whatever works if it's been three years, you can spare a couple of months and then pick a new instructor based on the recommendation of your friends. But there's more. Ask yourself what the underlying reasons may be for your difficulties. Could this be a matter of something like anxiety?

It could be something that a counsellor could help with. I have no idea where in the world you are if you actually need to demonstrate skill to get a driver's license, it's probably not North America! Forgive me for pushing into an area outside your question, but there may be something going on that's outside what a driving instructor can ever help with. I have been in a similar situation. I was not making any progress with the instructor and we were not getting on, but I did not want to say to him 'This isn't working, 'I'm finding someone else''.

What I did was, I just said that I was going off to uni you can invent another excuse and you just say that you will pick up lessons again if and when you have free time because you won't have any free time due to this change in your life.

Then you just pick up the phone and go straight to another instructor. This time ask your friends and family who have passed their driving test who their driving instructor was and if he or she is recommended: this is what I did second time round.

Whilst I was driving around with the new instructor a few months later, the old one see me whilst he was on a lesson with another student and just smiled at me.

Honestly, he probably doesn't care. This is your life and your money, you can't just short-change yourself because you don't want to hurt someone's feelings: well, if you have failed 3 times, he needs to try harder.

This doesn't sound like a problem with you, but with the instructor. You say you've failed the test 3 times and this particular instructor doesn't have a good track record with getting his students to pass?

Why would a driving instructor not want to take their students on the test route so they can practice the test beforehand to increase their chances of passing? He knows, if his student, AKA you, fails the test, they have to take more lessons with him. He has no incentive for you to pass, failing is much more in his favor.

You've been with him for 3 years and that's a constant source of income for him. He's using you and others like you as a cash cow and that's his bottom line.

What is stopping you from just discontinuing with any further payments and leaving? You don't have to give the instructor a reason. And if he asks you still don't have to give a reason. It's the same with any product or service that you find unsatisfactory. I had a similar experience while learning to drive during the late eighties.

Besides gouging me financially, my instructor was not imparting the necessary confidence, skills and knowledge needed to get me through the test.

Neither did he have much in the way of interpersonal skills and could be somewhat unpleasant. He clearly saw me a kind of cash cow, there to be strung along as long as possible, all the while me being "not quite ready". Still being young and somewhat unassertive, I too resorted to telling a white lie about getting a job in another area so that I could cut ties with him and quit.

What was more difficult was obtaining a refund given that I had booked a block of lessons in advance. I got it eventually, but not without him telling me how my driving will suffer, and how he is the best and most consistent instructor in the area, ad absurdum.

But I quit and went with another instructor, who was not grasping and manipulative, and with whom I ended up passing the test.

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Ask Question. Asked 3 years, 7 months ago. Active 2 years, 6 months ago. Viewed 22k times. Improve this question. Styxal Styxal 2 2 gold badges 7 7 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges. Is there a reason you can't just tell him that you want to change instructor? With which part of telling him do you need help? Cashbee I was struggling because it had been a long time with this driving instructor and we had obviously spent a long time together.

I didn't want him to react negatively to me telling him that I didn't want to continue having lessons with him. I have now told him in the nicest way possible based on advice from the answers I had and he sadly reacted negatively, but I at least have peace of mind knowing that I tried to be polite. Is the instructor self-employed? Or does he work for a bigger driving school? Mixxiphoid he is self-employed — Styxal. Matt yeah that isn't a law here, the tests are driving around on the roads so saying you can't drive in the test area wouldn't be great.

They don't publish their test routes but he hadn't even taken me to the area that they do some big fraction of the tests in until after I went there on my first test and had no idea where I was and I still hadn't been where the person who failed me said I should practice at the end of my second test on my third test. Show 1 more comment. Active Oldest Votes. I have been with the same driving instructor for 3 years I'm stunned Same here : We tend to talk over text. Can't help with the wording, just with the idea see above This is an update done after answer was accepted , intended to help future readers.

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Add a comment. Spagirl Spagirl 13k 10 10 gold badges 37 37 silver badges 47 47 bronze badges. If it is necessary for the instructor to grab the steering wheel frequently, then this is actually a fault of the instructor and not the learner. There are few occasions where a learner will do something completely unpredictable and will require the instructor to take control of the wheel, however if the instructor has explained objectives clearly and concisely at the start of the lesson, followed by continual questions and prompts so that the instructor knows exactly what the learner is thinking and intending on doing , it is seldom necessary to grab the wheel.

We have so far concentrated on what a driving instructor should not do, but to be clear, the vast majority of driving instructors are honest, highly trained professionals. That being said, as with every profession, there are rotten ones out there. If your instructor is covering the aspects of driving tuition in the list directly above and less of the issues outlined at the start of this page, then it looks like you have yourself a good instructor.

Based on the information provided, you should be able to formulate a conclusion on whether you need to change driving instructors, or whether you simply need a little more tuition than most.

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