Advantages and disadvantages of going for try-sell lessons

Here is a question that many of us would consider as a student in the driving school, that is, whether you should take up try-sell lessons. In the previous post, I have explained the concept of try-sell and provided some tips to enhance your chance of getting a try-sell slot. Here, I would like to provide you with a list of advantages and disadvantages of going for try-sell lessons.

Advantages

Shorter time taken to complete the course - Usually your advanced booking lessons would be 1 to 2 months away (especially for peak hour slots). If you want to start going for practical lesson immediately (provided you passed your Basic Theory Test already), you can pack your first few weeks with try-sell lessons. In that way you can shorten the time taken to obtain your driving license. In addition, advanced booking lessons are limited to 3 lessons per week. If you want to pack more lessons, you need to go for try-sell.

Different instructors - This can be a double edged sword. If you go for try-sell lessons, it is unlikely that you'll get your default group instructors. Here I will talk about its advantage. With many different instructors teaching you, you can get more pointers and can learn different techniques for each maneuver since different instructor would emphasize on different aspect of driving. Then you can choose the ones that you feel most comfortable with.

Disadvantages

Many different instructors - As mentioned above, this can be a double edged sword. With many different instructors, they will not be able to fully understand your strength and weakness since every lesson you attend would be a new instructor who has no clue of what you have done in the previous lessons. You end up having to do a fair bit of revision at the start of the lesson for the instructor to verify if you are indeed doing alright in your past lesson. In the end, you may end up going for more lessons. If you frequently stay with your default group, the instructors would be familiar with your strengths and weaknesses and would have more chance to focus on improving your weaknesses.

Different group, less committed -  As advised by some of my default group instructors, other group instructors tend to be less committed in the lesson if they know that you belong to another group (since it does not impact their KPI). I'm not sure if this is entirely true as I have met some instructors who are truly committed to make me pass. One even told me a secret technique he said he rarely mention to other students. In fact, the only instructor that cheer me before my test was an instructor from another group whom had only taught me twice.

Less time to prepare - Usually the try-sell lesson I got is on the same day. Sometimes, it could be only a few hours away. There is less time for me to prepare for the lesson (eg reading up on the practical handbook or revising the previous lesson), unless I mug while taking the bus.

A lot of time spent on monitoring for try-sell slots - You may end up starring at your monitor and refreshing your webpages for hours just to wait for a try-sell slot. But from experience, there are some timing that have a higher chance of others releasing slots.