Vary or not

Gavin "shels"

So had a discussion with the mother, and she was saying that if I feel comfortable with the man I'd doing my lessons with now I should stay with him for all 10, whereas I though maybe doing 5 with this guy and 5 with another would be better and give me a different "experience".

So in your position what would you do?

Aimee_gleeson

Depends on how good you think the instructor is, you might not wanna stay with the one person for 10 or even 5 lessons!

I got lessons off 2 diff people, one in Cork and he was brill and one where im actually doing my test and imo i thought he was rubbish compared to the first fella..

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Saint_Mel

Depends on how well you get on with the instructor.
I heard some horror stories about the instructor I had but as soon as I got
into the car for my 1st lesson he was grand and made me feel at ease so
I stuck with him. Definately made learning a lot easier as I wasnt paniced
or flustered when he was in the car with me

Alanstrainor

I got lessons off two people, but that was more because one of my instructors retired, i thought it was quite good to hear two opinions on my driving. But i wouldn't say it was a necessity, far from it, if you have a good instructor now i'd stay with him/her, rather than going around searching for another "good" instructor.

I don't know, I'd say it takes 3-4 lessons, to judge the instruction.
If I had a test coming up, and I thought my instructor was fairly good and I could see that I was progressing. I don't think I'd risk it.

But If I was starting off again, I would definitely have shopped around.
I feel that my first instructor instilled bad habits in my driving from the start, and I didn't have any expierence to know any better.

Then again if you feel prepared for your test after 5 lessons, it might do no harm at all to switch.

If I felt that I had put the effort in, and I still failed my test. I would definitely change instructors.

Wishbone Ash

Aimee_gleeson wrote: »

Depends on how good you think the instructor is

Moonbaby wrote: »

I don't know, I'd say it takes 3-4 lessons, to judge the instruction

It's a bit of a catch 22 situation though. Most learner drivers wouldn't have enough experience to judge whether an instructor is good or not. Those of us who have been driving for many years would probably make better judgements but then again, we are not in a position to be using instructors.

Many learner drivers think that a good instructor is one that puts them "at ease". It not much point being put 'at ease' if you don't learn anything or learn all the wrong things. Some of the worst instructors out there are great at putting pupils 'at ease'.

Mental Mickey

I did my lessons thru the IWA and the instructor they had at the time was f**king first class.

If you did something wrong, he would never come down hard on you, he would say stuff like - "(name), what are ya tryin to do to me!!!?", but in a funny way.

I built up a good rapore(sp?) with him and am still good friends with him to this day..........

Depends on the person you get, I suppose??

Gavin "shels"

Well after 2 lessons I find him really good, he's sound and at the moment seems like a brillaint instructor. He's also got a 100% record over the last 2 weeks, 8 people who got lessons off him all passed 1st time over the last 2 weeks.:eek:

Sounds like he is a keeper.

SeanW

Gavin shels wrote: »

So had a discussion with the mother, and she was saying that if I feel comfortable with the man I'd doing my lessons with now I should stay with him for all 10, whereas I though maybe doing 5 with this guy and 5 with another would be better and give me a different "experience".

So in your position what would you do?

Bad idea. Unless you have reason to believe that your present instructor's instruction is not sufficient to get you a pass on the driving test, whereas anothers might, there is no benefit to switching.

As a learner, you probably won't know who gave you good instruction until you pass your driving test.

Gavin "shels"

Cheers for the replies.;)