How to Choose Your Driving Instructor

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In the UK, only Approved Driving Instructors (ADIs), and licenced instructors under training, can give instruction for payment. It is illegal for anyone else to charge you for driving lessons. Low Price Lessons only lists Green Badge fully qualified ADIs. This is verified with the DSA when instructors join and the active community of Approved Driving Instructors on the site help with monitoring and approving new members. Two types of badge are issued by the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) for display in tuition vehicles. A green, octagonal badge shows the instructor is fully qualified and approved. A pink, triangular badge shows the instructor is licenced under training and is not yet fully qualified.

The DSA monitors the quality of tuition provided by ADIs, and grades them accordingly. Grade 4 is competent, and Grade 6 indicates a very high standard.

To get the best value driving lessons it is important to understand how long it will take you to drive. The average learner driver can take anywhere between 45 – 56 lessons before they pass so to keep your cost per lesson down it makes sense to take advantage of block booking discounts. When block booking lessons it can be tempting to think you should take them as close together as possible and that this will help you learn to drive faster. In many cases this is not true as supervised practice in between professional lessons and time to practice things you find difficult can be hard to find if your taking paid lessons around work and study.

Use the Low Price Lessons information buttons to learn more about different course types and decide which sounds right for you. By using Low Price Lessons.com you can easily select the lesson course you like with the instructor that you want to teach you. If you know how many lessons you want then you can enter this on the advanced search or browse the different block booking rates in your search results. For those who are not sure how many lessons they need use the hints and tips section on the site and the handy pointers along the way to better understand the discounts on your results. If you want to book a beginners course of lessons to get to know your instructor and advice on how many lessons you can get a beginners discount on 5 lessons – and come back and book a longer course when you know how many you want.