Reliable Private Driving Instructor?

blvck.pxwer

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You're advertising or complaining? Seems more like advertising rather than complaining. You don't have to keep repeating and spam every thread this way. It's annoying.
sorry if it hurts you hahaha looks like your poor old man got exposed.
 

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Seeking good and reliable private driving instructor around sengkang or eunos area? Class 3 Manual Please PM if you guys have any contacts! Thanks!
 

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hi! looking for patient english speaking PDI at CDC Ubi. pickup in the east/central if possible. Class 3 Manual

thanks!
 

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For those who wanna learn 3A in the north, am recommending my driving instructor, Liew Yew Seng.

3A, Honda City, Pick up at Admiralty MRT. Tagged to SSDC.

Passed on my first attempt with Mr Liew. Took about 23 lessons (10 circuit, 13 road). Mr Liew is patient and soft spoken. Sometimes I find him a bit too soft and have to ask him to repeat and he will do so without black face or annoyance. He's not the chatty type which I like, so I can also focus on my driving. He's also not the sarcastic and chiding type. Downside is he speaks only Mandarin so you need to be fluent to understand his instructions.

He gives good tips on driving on the road and circuit. He'll also point out my appropriate sighting points and will change his driving instructions based on my own learning trajectory. Eg, I keep forgetting parallel parking steps especially when exiting the lot, so he simplified my steps for me. Won't die die must follow his way. He's also very accommodating if I want to get out of the vehicle to visualise my distances/positioning be it on the road or in circuit. He'll point out my mistakes as I go and will answer any questions I have about my progress.

I never have problems booking 2-3 lessons a week. He'll also give priority to those taking TP to go for more intensive lessons towards the end.

Feel free to PM if anyone needs his contact.
Hi, can PM me his contact. I really need 3A driving lessons, keep searching so hard to find :(
 

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Also avoid ssdc chee kok wan. Class 3A.
A lot of safety check n blind spot never teach, and drag my lesson once every 2 weeks.
Like to throw temper, and comment "children also know".. you can checkout the reviews online and passing rate.

Im lucky another instructor accepted me, and i learn where are my mistakes and passed on my 1st driving test.
Able to pm me his number too? as i had a similar experience as well :(
 

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I learned with Mr Anthony Tan at SSDC Class 3 in September 2019 right before **. Passed in March 2020 before lockdown. A little background, I have 3A, but I needed Class 3 as I wanted to drive caravan and manual cars overseas for roadtrips. So I took "refresher" from Mr Tan. Took 8 lessons with him (roughly 5 lessons drive outside 3 inside circuit). During the lessons he just ask me drive and he will take the chance to correct my bad habits (never check back mirror, never turn head clearly) from my driving experience and tell me don't do such 'mistakes' in test. Circuit teaching also very swee, really teach properly and I had trouble with the biting point and slope but he slowly guide. His favourite phrase "pass already you want to drive with your old habits I leave it to you, but first you must pass the test using my tips" :s13:

Mr Anthony Tan (last time drive honda jazz, nice and small can park easily, now he change car not sure). One of the best driving instructors around. Speaks good english, grandfather vibes. Not sure whether can speak mandarin but I think so la haha. Don't scold or shout, just nag abit and will tell you like "eh eh do this kind wrong ah.... don't do this in test". So I just laugh and say sorry. Sometimes joke with you because don't want you to feel pressured.

Downside is, sometimes he end the previous lesson late. (maybe he too kind to previous student keep giving free extension). But doesn't make you 'pay' for it. So if you scheduled to start at 1:00pm, will usually 1:10pm then start and end 2:10pm or 2:40pm depending on duration. Someitimes I end like 5 to 10 mins late also but he not calculative. But means the behind all snowball. Imagine if your lesson is at 6:00pm hahaha jialat. Maybe 6:20pm or 6:30pm then start. So make sure you got flexibility with time, if not you probably be annoyed with the situation. He is also super popular with foreign workers converting their license to drive (I guess because he speak good english). So might have trouble booking him. Really must book in advance and don't last minute cancel.

Can use Paynow to pay for lessons/test - not those very strict say must use cash. $40 per hour, $80 enrolment fee. He even helps you to book your stuff (circuit and TP test) on SSDC website just pass him your SSDC login and pw lol. Really quite hard to find such helpful instructors. He really got heart to help you pass. Expected him to milk me for more lessons (which i'm ok to pay for his help) and $$$ but 7 lessons later, he let me do TP test alr.

2nd attempt then pass TP because first TP test, light was amber and idk drive or stop. I stop because don't want to beat red light (imm fail), but then tester say i e-brake for nothing (walao) and front wheel on pedestrian line, then fail me lol.

I don't usually post here but I think good instructors are hard to come by nowadays. A lot of fr*kn bad eggs.
Let me know if anyone needs his contact. Mr Anthony Tan SSDC Class 3. Spent a total of $1.1k inclusive of 2 TP test ($400+ each time incl. of warm up).

If I remember correctly, he has a friend Mr David Phuan that teaches at SSDC Class 3A. But this one not sure whether kind or not never learned under him haha.
Hi, can PM me his contact please? thank you
 

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he is patient. wont shout/nags. but he is very busy with arranging his students. but he wont neglect u. and will make sure u know everything before TP.
he will practise the routes for TP.
my gf is so lucky that the day on her TP, she has 1hr of revision.
the instructor asked her to drove one of the TP route.
and during her TP, she got the same route again! -by luck-
haha.
however, sometimes the instructor will ask his another fren to teach u [if he got student tat day time same time slot u booked]
his fren also not bad.
if u wan him only, then always rmb to tell him that u only wan to be taught by him.
i will PM u his number.
Hi Leonard, any chance can PM me his number as well?
 

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Ok, so I just came back from my first lesson with this new instructor...

Gotta say, he's definitely better than my previous instructor! First lesson and he already brought me to do slopes (about 7 times - some by my request haha), U-turns (twice), lots of left and right turns. My previous instructor (Albert Yap from Woodlands Driving School - do NOT engage this guy!) always bring me to straight roads most of the time, even after 4 lessons. Stark difference in comparison, man.

So overall, this new instructor is tons better, and is patient and doesn't scold/nag, and he answers whatever questions I had quite well.

But. I don't know if this guy is the Mr Ong leonard90 mentioned. The person I called and this guy are 2 different people and so I asked him what his name was, and who did I talk on the phone with... He said, "Ong also. Everybody also Ong lah hor." HAHA. Damn funny.

I've PM-ed leonard90 to ask if I got the right instructor... 'Cause if I didn't, I want to request for the correct Mr Ong, even though this guy is not bad. I'd rather learn from someone who has been given a good review. :)

Either way, I'm glad I left my previous instructor. :o
Hi, any chance you could provide me his number or PM me? :)
 

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Looking for manual class 3 PDI for SSDC.
Appreciated kindly pm me contact and review of your recommended PDI
 

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Looking for class 3A PDI for CDC.
kindly pm me contact and review of your recommended PDI
 

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For those who wanna learn 3A in the north, am recommending my driving instructor, Liew Yew Seng.

3A, Honda City, Pick up at Admiralty MRT. Tagged to SSDC.

Passed on my first attempt with Mr Liew. Took about 23 lessons (10 circuit, 13 road). Mr Liew is patient and soft spoken. Sometimes I find him a bit too soft and have to ask him to repeat and he will do so without black face or annoyance. He's not the chatty type which I like, so I can also focus on my driving. He's also not the sarcastic and chiding type. Downside is he speaks only Mandarin so you need to be fluent to understand his instructions.

He gives good tips on driving on the road and circuit. He'll also point out my appropriate sighting points and will change his driving instructions based on my own learning trajectory. Eg, I keep forgetting parallel parking steps especially when exiting the lot, so he simplified my steps for me. Won't die die must follow his way. He's also very accommodating if I want to get out of the vehicle to visualise my distances/positioning be it on the road or in circuit. He'll point out my mistakes as I go and will answer any questions I have about my progress.

I never have problems booking 2-3 lessons a week. He'll also give priority to those taking TP to go for more intensive lessons towards the end.

Feel free to PM if anyone needs his contact.
Hi. Can let me know his contact? I've PM you. Thank you
 

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Posting review for Mr Frankie Yue.

3A, Toyota Axio
Pickup at Ubi CDC (Can arrange for Tai Seng / Ubi MRT pick up)

Chose him mainly because of the review I saw while trawling through the many pages in this thread, and that he also has quite a high pass rate / student numbers as well.

Can confirm that he is indeed a top notch instructor. Took approximately ~10 lessons from him (did have some prior driving lessons with school) and passed TP on the first try some time back.

He is patient, and will point out mistakes every single time you make them. Gives very good tips for driving in circuit and on the road, can fully recommend him. Speaks good English, but does not engage much in small talk. I'm by nature not a chatty person, so this suited me really well. Does not scold you / chide you even if you don't do well, but instead he will remind or nag you.

He is professional as well, and is always there on time. Does not take frequent toilet breaks while driving as well. Even if he does need to answer nature's call, he'll do it quickly.

Only downside is that he appears to have a lot of students, and therefore scheduling can be a bit difficult especially for working adults. (Was running 1 lesson at week for some time).

Feel free to PM me should you want his contact, can 100% recommend him.
Hi, can PM me his contact?
 

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I recently passed on my first try after 17 lessons (at least 7 circuit lessons and including the warm up before exam) with 16 demerit points. Sounds like a lot but I scored 14 points in the circuit due to my TP being too big sized and blocking my back window view causing me to not park properly so strike a kerb when I exit the parking lot. But I would say, 2 demerit points on the road was pretty fantastic.

Spent a total of less than 1.6k including my driving test cost.

Before the exam, my driving uncle even told all his driving uncle instructor friends at the coffeeshop “today is her last day coming already”. Such confidence in me hahahaha.

I love my driving instructor.
9.5/10 because I’m paying for classes!
10/10 or even 11/10 if lessons are free.

Would be my last post here but I will reply to DMs if y’all int in his contact!

3A CDC, lessons around UBI.
Hi, can you PM me his contact?
 
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