Honours Driving School

I am very grateful to Zia Rahmanyar at Honours Driving School for giving me the skills and confidence to get a G2. About 8 years ago, I took the Young Drivers course and bombed my test so badly that the examiner ended the exam early.
After that experience, and getting the run-​around from Young Drivers who said that they felt really badly and would happily take more of my money with no guarantees, I gave up driving entirely. However, bumming rides as I got older got more embarrassing, so I reluctantly tried Honours based on their excellent online reviews.
Zia was very patient and his teaching methodology differed vastly from Young Drivers:
1) He minimised the new material in each session to make sure that I could focus on one thing at a time. Having helped other students pushed through YD, he agreed with me that YD overloads its students with its patented laundry list of habits and sub-​habits and sub-​sub-​habits. He emphasised mastering the basics before moving onto more advanced techniques;
2) He patiently drilled everything to perfection. I quickly lost count of the number of parallel parks we’d do in an hour. In contrast, YD would introduce a topic, practise it a couple times and then move onto the next item;
3) He directed my attention to things that examiners would look for during the test and made sure that they became habits. He made sure that I did full blind-​spot checks and turned my head when looking at the mirrors. YD, in contrast, told me to keep my eyes darting all over the place so much that I couldn’t take in any information. They never even told me to turn my head when reversing!
4) He memorised the Highway Traffic Act and would tell you exactly how many metres you needed to turn and stop. Zia also would teach manoeuvres using simple, fail-​safe steps that a robot could do. Although these were tailored to his car, they gave me a reference point for learning and, more importantly, doing them correctly on the test. This was much more helpful than YD’s approach to «use your best judgement and sense».
All of this came at less than half the price of what YD charges! Needless to say, I shall be returning to them next year for G test training.