The content of the article:
- How to choose a driving school
- work experience
- Technical base
- The cost of training in a driving school
- School location
If you ask motorists with a long driving experience, where and how they got their license, then the answers will surprise many. Half of the experienced drivers learned how to drive a car and have a minimal understanding of how a car works in high school.
In the days of the USSR, for many high school students, once a week for two years, instead of labor lessons, the CPC (educational production plants) was held. One of the directions was driving training.
Another quarter learned to drive from a neighbor in the garage, and another quarter received their education in driving schools, which were all state-owned and ensured the receipt of rights in 90% of cases.
Today, those who want to get a license and master the minimum skills of driving a car have only one option - to take training courses. The opportunity to buy a document without passing an exam is not taken into account.
How to choose a driving school
It will depend on the choice of a driving school, if there are no initial skills in driving a car, absolutely everything. This is the ability to drive a car, and how a beginner will feel on the road, knowledge of the rules and successful passing of the exam in the traffic police.
What should you pay attention to first of all?
Work experience
Any driving school must have the appropriate accreditation. You can find out if the courses are licensed to train drivers on the official page of the traffic police in the corresponding section. The website of a driving school should contain complete information about the teachers: their work experience, feedback from graduates, statistics on exams.
A good indicator of the work of a driving school is considered to be the receipt of rights by graduates the first time in 70% of cases.
It is worth asking about the presence of branches of the school in your area, as well as what technical base and teaching staff works outside the center.
The main teachers for the student will be a teacher of theoretical material and a driving instructor. It depends on the first teacher how you will know the traffic rules and the future ability to quickly navigate the road. It depends on the instructor how the student will operate the car and his psychological state on a busy street.
It is the driving instructor who must teach the future driver not to get lost, to be confident, to react correctly to the every second changing situation on the road.
Experienced instructors always include a trip to the city, choose uncrowded streets with a small traffic flow, and help students quickly adapt to real city traffic conditions.
The authority of a driving school also depends on the rights of which categories the students are being trained. If the courses offer training for all categories of management, this means that the school also has an appropriate technical base and teachers.
Technical base
Many schools that have recently entered the service market do not have a sufficient technical base. Before deciding on a specific educational institution, you should ask:
- What car models are in the fleet. The times when it was believed that if you learned how to fly a VAZ 2101, you could control an airplane too, have passed. It is desirable that there was an opportunity to learn how to drive a Zhiguli and, at least, an Opel.
- Many driving schools break down driving courses depending on which gear the student chooses. This does not mean that if manual transmission courses are selected, the future driver will not be able to drive a car with an automatic transmission. But when choosing a school, you should pay attention to these little things. If in the future you plan to drive a car only with a manual transmission, choose the appropriate direction.
- Availability of training roads. Driving schools with more than five years of experience usually have training roads with a lot of road signs, a garage where practical training is carried out.
The driver must have minimum skills in servicing the machine, these include:
- wheel replacement;
- checking the oil level;
- the skill of replacing spark plugs for gasoline cars;
- ability to refuel properly.
The cost of training in a driving school
The cost of training is not the last issue that worries customers when choosing a driving school. Let's make a reservation right away - low prices are a marketing ploy to attract customers. Driving courses with a good reputation have prices not lower than 18,000-20,000 rubles. (for 2018).
In some driving schools, you can find two types of training: basic and complete. Basic training includes:
- 14 theoretical lessons, 120 minutes each;
- 1-2 lessons on a car simulator;
- 13-15 lessons with an instructor in a training car.
The number of hours for training on manual transmission and automatic transmission is almost the same. Full training includes:
- 28-30 theory lessons lasting 120 minutes;
- 1-3 lessons on a car simulator;
- 26-30 lessons with an instructor. At the same time, 10 lessons are on city streets.
- Preparation for exams EEC and traffic police: 1-2 lessons.
School location
Of course, a convenient option would be to locate the school near your home or work. But do not put the proximity of the courses in the first place. The quality of teaching and technical base are the main criteria when choosing an educational institution.
But life situations sometimes develop in such a way that a reputable school with a high level of training is located three hours away, and wasting time on the road is an unforgivable luxury.
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In this case, you can search for branches of a proven driving school that are open by region. The quality of training is preserved here, a consistently high percentage of obtaining a license in the traffic police the first time. The only difference may be not so good technical equipment, the lack of workshops and training ramps. For practical training, you will have to visit the central base of the driving school.
If you have minimal driving experience, you know the rules of the road, but you need to hone your skills and get legal rights, then when choosing a driving school, you can focus only on the prices of the institution. In other cases, you will have to approach the issue of choice responsibly.
