About
The instructor behind JMJ.
/ About
Meet James.
I'm James. DVSA-approved driving instructor, based in Sydenham, South-East London. I specialise in intensive courses - 5, 7, 10, or 14 days, finishing with your test on the last day. It's one-to-one, picked up from your door, and tailored entirely to you.
What every review seems to mention is that the lessons are calm, and that I'm reasonably good company across the long hours. I'll take that. Driving is serious - the test is serious - but the week shouldn't be a slog.
Most students book because of a deadline - a new job, a move, an imminent test. I take late-notice bookings when I can. If your test is next week and your instructor's let you down, get in touch.
/ By the numbers
Results in days, not months.
Google rating
Five-star reviews
Day fastest pass
One-to-one
Teaching philosophy
Skills for the road, not just test-day tricks.
Anyone can be coached through a test. The job of an intensive instructor is to give you the skills you'll actually need the morning after you pass - when you're on the school run, or driving to a new job, or borrowing your mum's car for the first time.
Every lesson on every course is one-to-one. You're picked up from your door. We work on what you need - not a generic curriculum. If you're confident at manoeuvres but nervous on roundabouts, that's where we spend the time. If you're great in traffic but the parallel park is a sticking point, that's what we drill.
Mock tests start mid-week, not at the end. Real test routes, real-time pressure, debrief, repeat. By test day, it's just another lesson.
/ Get in touch
Ready when you are.
Phone or WhatsApp is fastest - that's how 90% of bookings happen. Or use the form.
- Hours
- Mon - Fri · 09:00 - 17:00
- Base
- Sydenham Rd · SE26 5JX
- Service area
- SE19 · SE20 · SE26 · SE6 · SE23 · BR1 · BR3