you want it quickly I suggest doing the Gov Test – takes all of 30mins and if you can drive you get your licence if you don’t pass clearly you need more supevised practice

Also, the 50 hours are only recommended by the A.C.T. Government, not required.

Actually, my plan was to get my P’s ASAP, then take some additional driving “lessons” with the fam in my spare time.

Honestly, if you can’t put aside a minimum of 10 hours for driving, then you shouldn’t have a license.

I’m not sure it’s entirely ethical to ask/answer that as it should be entirely based on how competent you are and if you are not competent and they are being lenient, that’s illegal.

On the other hand, asking if any seem to particularly delay you would be a more reasonable question.

I honestly can’t think of one though – seeing all my friends and myself learn to drive from different schools a few years ago and nobody went surprisingly faster than anyone else or said their instructor was a pushover. Just grab some recommendations in terms of nice instructors and you should be fine if you can drive.

Don’t forget to tell us which uni and subject – so we can give you the lecturers’ names which can give you pass marks with minimum effort!

This just about sums up the average Canberra driver. “It doesn’t matter that I cant drive – just give me a licence”

Do us all a favour and keep off the roads. There are already enough inept drivers in Canberra.

Apologies for this non-answer but I have to say +1 for the above replies and suggest this thread might also become a resource for people looking which quick and lenient driving schools to avoid?

The path of least resistance is what makes rivers and people crooked.

Lessons are well and good, leastwise you shouldn’t gain too many bad habits.

But I have just one question: If you’re in such a hurry, how do you plan on getting your fifty hours of driving practice up, which you need to pass your log book?

Unless you have already done them? In which case there is no problem.

But, as you say you want to get you’re licence fast, and if you haven’t done your hours, are you going to get someone to lie and sign you off?

No wonder ‘p’ platers are lousy drivers if they all do as you seem to plan on doing.

I got my P plates while studying full time at uni, managed to squeeze lessons into my ‘hectic’schedule while also working, so get real. You want to drive a car, learn the ropes seriously. The last thing society needs is another invincible P-Plater who thinks they know everything behind the wheel of what is potentially a lethal weapon.

Schools who are ‘lenient’ about ticking off competencies .. I reckon the local plod should have a plug at finding the veracity of that claim.

Grant at Serenity driving school. Not dodgy, but efficient and knows his stuff. Won’t rip you off.

You can’t take short cuts when learning to take control of a lethal weapon. Do it right first time round and get good instruction. Cutting corners will lead one of two places, jail for inadvertant manslaughter or the morgue.
You made it to Uni, your smart enough to make the right choice.

Let’s hope all schools operate at the same pace, no need for cowboys teaching others how to be cowboys.

Pretty sure there is a minimum number of lessons to gain your license – something like 10 lessons? That’s because you can only tick off a certain number of competencies per lesson (as well as only 2 lessons per week, from memory)

That said, many of the smaller schools will illegally finish in as few as 4 lessons, depending on the instructor.