The option of learning to drive in as little as one week and passing your practical driving test so swiftly is continuing to prove a popular decision for new drivers. Intensive driving courses are readily available across the UK and come in different shapes and sizes – often dependant on the individual driving school or instructor.

An intensive driving course is designed to accelerate the learning process of learning to drive. Typically, a driving student will have a driving instructor that may pick them up once or twice a week over the period of many months to slowly get the grasp of driving. This process is proven to work, but is extremely time consuming, costly and bares the risk of a student losing interest in driving as their test is effectively months and months away.

An intensive driving course cuts out months of slow development and replaces it with a steep and effective learning programme that results in a highly accelerated learning curve. It is thought that undertaking individual lessons each week is an ineffective way to learn to drive, as it takes 15 to 20 minutes to re-familiarise yourself with the processes involved in driving – and it is sometimes thought that you run at decreased deficiency for a period of 10-15 minutes prior to the end of a scheduled task.
An intensive driving course will take require you to ‘jump in the deep end’ where you will be undertaking hours of practice each day in the space of a few days, where focus is improved and there is a minimal amount of wasted time spent of re-familiarising yourself with controls.

Of course these theories will be more relevant with different types of people, however it highlights the general idea behind the benefits of an intensive driving course. Some driving schools will be so effective at teaching you to drive through their knowledge, experience and teaching techniques that they could have you undertaking a driving test at the end of an intensive driving course week that could see you claiming your official driving license by the weekend!

Not all intensive driving courses are undertaken over the course of a week, as this may prove too intense for some students that may have different capability, confidence and flexibility with time. Most schools and instructors can tailor a course to suit your needs, allowing you to undertake an intensive driving course over a number of weeks should that be more suitable.

The beauty of an intensive driving course is that you could take a week off work and return with a driving license… say goodbye to waiting for that bus or train each day! Or maybe you just want to cut the long waiting time associated with learning to drive to get it done to simply make life easier. Either way there are a range of intensive driving course operators that all offer different deals. The Intensive Driving Course Association is a resource that showcases a number of high quality intensive driving course operators along with further information on advantages, news, blogs and much more.

Image: flickr.com/celerrimus