Hello unruliejulie - sorry to make you wait, but boys were on cbeebies website and I couldn't get anywhere near the 'pooter!
I did the course with BSM about 11 years ago now, having read an article about intensive courses years before. They seemed a bit baffled when I asked, and it took them a while to find out how they booked it, but they got there in the end. I had the first session on the Monday, and the instructor said it was an assessment aswell, to decide if he thought I'd be suitable. After that, he picked me up every day for 5 days - same chap, same car, 5/6 hours or so every day. On the Friday, we squeezed in one session in the morning, then my test was at 3pm. That was that!! My chappy said they had a 95% success rate that way, as you don't have to spend half a lesson catching up on the last one before it.
I REALLY recommend it - I was quite nervous, but once I started, I didn't look back! It was all over in a week's holiday from work! It cost around 450 quid, I think, but when you add up all the lessons it might normally take, it's well worth it.
Go on, be a devil!!! I was terrified, but booked it in my lunch break one day in a gung-ho sort of moment, and didn't even know whether I could get the time off. I've never regretted it!!
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