Hello
I've been learning to drive for around a year now and I've gone through 4 driving instructors to date (not to mention previous lessons/instructors on previous attempts).
I just can't seem to "get it" I feel that I'm the nearest I've ever been and my 2nd instructor said I should book my test, then went AWOL and so I've moved it back several times now. Today things seemed to go reasonably well apart from:
- missing two different red lights as my mind was elsewhere (not sure where exactly)
- being in the wrong lane after being on a big wide open road, he said we were going right, by the time I had looked in my mirrors it was too late and I was in the wrong lane
- I felt overwhelmed with a huge roundabout system causing me to be in the wrong lane (again) and then he had to instruct me to do each task
- and then I stopped unnecessarily on the approach to another roundabout (on the same system)
This is a fairly new instructor with one of the big companies. Today he had a massive rant as I have my test book, he stops every so often and asks what I think, I usually say "MMM this or that went well...." On his part it seems to quite often be a list of "issues" he has with what I am doing, today it was a rant "You're not even doing this ...." "I gave you the benefit of the doubt for your first lesson, things didn't improve much for your second lesson (although he said there was obvious improvement at the time), you're just not ready for your test." He seems determined to keep flogging this dead horse that the test I have booked is not do-able for me to realistically be able to pass (which he can't even do anyway due to having another booking).
I've made the point that my last instructor criticised EVERYTHING I did, NOTHING I did was right even when it was (always just a little too wide / too near the curb / could have considered this or that) and how difficult I found this as he slowly eroded everything I was doing well at until there was nothing left.
I'm sick of making the same mistakes over and over again. I know I don't learn the same way everyone else does but I can't seem to develop an effective way to learn. I've put up with a great deal in terms of instructors - terrible bully, dysfunctional, lateness, short notice cancellations are all issues I have had in this past 12 months. I don't know what to do
I've been learning to drive for around a year now and I've gone through 4 driving instructors to date (not to mention previous lessons/instructors on previous attempts).
I just can't seem to "get it" I feel that I'm the nearest I've ever been and my 2nd instructor said I should book my test, then went AWOL and so I've moved it back several times now. Today things seemed to go reasonably well apart from:
- missing two different red lights as my mind was elsewhere (not sure where exactly)
- being in the wrong lane after being on a big wide open road, he said we were going right, by the time I had looked in my mirrors it was too late and I was in the wrong lane
- I felt overwhelmed with a huge roundabout system causing me to be in the wrong lane (again) and then he had to instruct me to do each task
- and then I stopped unnecessarily on the approach to another roundabout (on the same system)
This is a fairly new instructor with one of the big companies. Today he had a massive rant as I have my test book, he stops every so often and asks what I think, I usually say "MMM this or that went well...." On his part it seems to quite often be a list of "issues" he has with what I am doing, today it was a rant "You're not even doing this ...." "I gave you the benefit of the doubt for your first lesson, things didn't improve much for your second lesson (although he said there was obvious improvement at the time), you're just not ready for your test." He seems determined to keep flogging this dead horse that the test I have booked is not do-able for me to realistically be able to pass (which he can't even do anyway due to having another booking).
I've made the point that my last instructor criticised EVERYTHING I did, NOTHING I did was right even when it was (always just a little too wide / too near the curb / could have considered this or that) and how difficult I found this as he slowly eroded everything I was doing well at until there was nothing left.
I'm sick of making the same mistakes over and over again. I know I don't learn the same way everyone else does but I can't seem to develop an effective way to learn. I've put up with a great deal in terms of instructors - terrible bully, dysfunctional, lateness, short notice cancellations are all issues I have had in this past 12 months. I don't know what to do