Very stupid question? How wud u fight not to sleep or yawn in classroom during class room training for trainee driver please?
As others have said, 9-3 Monday to Friday is standard, plus a bit of home study. It shouldn’t be difficult for anyone to sustain concentration for that time, and you should *hopefully* be keen and motivated at the start of your new career!
Make sure you organise your life outside to enable you to fully commit for the period at the training school, and take it seriously, because:
a. The information you’re learning doesn’t exist in a vacuum, but is essential to doing the job correctly and safely; and
b. because your employment can and will be terminated if you don’t pass the exams to the required standard, as unfortunately happened to a candidate on my course.
If people do struggle with parts of the course they will be supported, but attitude demonstrated throughout the classroom sessions is monitored, and the level of support will be less for those identified as “problem” candidates. Remember also that you are being closely watched throughout the course, and issues identified will be communicated to managers.
You won’t be required to write essays, however you will need to write reports and fill in paperwork, so it hopefully goes without saying you should avoid “text speak”!
One guy fell asleep into his hands, then slipped and woke himself up. Another turned to smoking roll-ups to keep himself awake. Another took his shirt off and carried his laptop up to bed with him and tucked himself up in the duvet, before falling fully asleep. This prompted a couple of us to laugh, to which the trainer said that it happened every time.
Pretty embarrassing, really!
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