I-SERVICE:

            Road Test Sponsor is a service to provide basically a school car and an instructor to take a student to do a road test. The road test sponsor gives ideally an opportunity to a student to work with the professional driving school. When an enrollment takes place, the road test sponsor provides the service such as; book and rebook a road test schedule appointment (Administrative Work), provide a ride to and from a road test place (Riding Service), learn, practice, and review the driving skills (Driving Skills Refreshing), have a school instructor (Sponsor), use a school car (Vehicle Being Used) for the test.

The quite a few of described conveniences are; an Administrative Work, a Riding Service, a Driving Skills Refreshing, a Sponsor, and a Vehicle Being Used. This sponsor service is for all kind of people whoever is legally allowed to do a road test with the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles. The request for a road test sponsor is accepted either from a student or the school books a road test when it is not conflicting with the schedule availability.

1- Administrative Work:

Administrative Work is a work to book and/or rebook a road test. The school will be an inter-mediator to the tasks between the student and the Registry of Motor Vehicles. The RMV procedure for the test must be accepted from all parties. To co-ordinate the work smoothly, the requested date, time, and place for the test have to be precise.

 Book a Road Test:

To book a road test, a preferred road test date, time and place, are collected or given for the work. The road test schedule will be booked according to the requested time, date, place, the school availability time and the available slot at the Registry of Motor Vehicles. The booked schedule will be informed and confirmed to all parties ahead of time about a week before the actual road test schedule appointment. The agreed schedule appointment must be abided to avoid charging.

Reschedule the Road Test:

To reschedule the road test student must have a legitimate reason such as Personal or Family Emergency.  School or work conflicting schedule is not a legitimate reason to accept for rescheduling the test.

Cancellation of the Road Test

In case of unavoidable cancellation, a student is expected to notify the school at least thirty six (36) hours before the actual schedule appointment. Base on Massachusetts Law, road test schedule will be automatically cancelled when a public school system closed at the location or State Emergency.

2- Riding Service:

Riding Service is a pick-up and a drop-off service. A road test student will be picked up at the residential address.  The pick-up time is vary by a number of road test student. The one student road test will be picked up one hour, the two student road test will be one hour and half and the three student road test will be two hours before the actual appointment of the road test. The priority for the pick-up will be assigned to the geographical location. The maximum load is not greater than three. The students are also dropped off at a residential or preferred places in town of our business location after the road test done. The student is supposed to be ready to be picked-up at the assigned time and expected place. When the pick-up location will be differed from the residential address, each student has to inform the school or the assigned instructor a head of time.

3- Driving Skills Refreshing:

The refreshed driving skills are skills that student is supposed to do to pass the road test. The driving skills will be taught, reviewed and refreshed. Such a refresh the road test student is put either on observing or driving since the pick-up. A refreshing will be performed from the pick-up whether switching from driving or observing along the way to the road test location. The driving part of the refresh is shared half an hour between the road test students.

4- Sponsor:

A school instructor, who will be assigned to assists the student, is a sponsor. The sponsor will pick the student up at the residential or expected address. The sponsor will assists student even to prepare an application form as well as sponsoring the road test through the whole process of the sponsorship.

5- Vehicle Being Used:

The school car, which will be assigned to an instructor to use to bring student for the road test, is the vehicle being used. The assigned car will be used for the riding, the refreshing, and the testing through the whole process of the sponsorship.

II-STUDENT:

For Road Test Sponsor the enroller must be age 16 years old and half. The student age under eighteen must have a consent of Parent/Legal Guardian. To enroll to the service, the student must meet the requirements; be at least age 16 years and half, have a parent consent, be ready to be tested, be able to communicate with instructor. American English is the school language use.

1- Age:

To be legible to enroll for the service, a student must be at least age 16 years old and half.

            2- Consent:  

If a student is under age 18, he/she must obtain a consent of his/her parent or legal guardian before he/he is accepted for the service.  The parent consent must be available as well for road test application by signing off the road test application form.

3- Learners Permit:

To be legible to do the road test the student must obtain a valid Learners Permit. The Learner's Permit must be held for six months if the student is under age 18.

            4- Readiness:

  Student has to understand that he/she wants to pass the road test to get a Drivers License to drive safely. Readiness and preparedness make student success for not only getting the Driver's License but also saving money. Driving evaluation is strongly recommended to all Road Test Applicants.

            5- Languages:

American English is our school official language use. Enroller who speaks the languages of the existing instructors of the school is usually accepted. Third party language interpreter for the test may or may not allow up to the road test examiner.         

III-PAYMENT and REFUND:

Payment is expected when the service is rendered. The account total of the Road Test Sponsor is ninety nine ($99) dollars. Any charge or fee made by the Registry of Motor Vehicles is a sole responsibility of the student.

1-Payment:

Payment is expected when the service is rendered. The total account of ninety nine dollars must be paid in full before the service commences.

2- Refund:

At the enrollment as an account was paid in full. And if a student fails to receive the service or withdraw prior to the service commences, the refund policy is as the following:

A. If the service is discontinued or the enrollment is not accepted by SIMS, all money paid will be refunded.

B. Upon receiving a written notice of cancellation within five (5) business days prior to the beginning of service, all money paid will be refunded.

C. Refund is not given if a student fails to receive the service due to excessive absences or violates the written policy of the program of the school.

 IV-LESSON EVALUATION:

             Lesson evaluation is an hourly road lesson added to the road test sponsor, just in case a student needs to do an evaluation.  It is thirty nine ($39) dollars per hour lesson. It is optional, but doing this kind of lesson student will be able to have an opportunity to work with a professional instructor to qualify him/herself. Therefore, it is strongly recommended. The instructor will evaluate the skills that the student is supposed to do to pass the test.  Lesson evaluation is a tool to measure the qualification of the applicant so that the applicant will be able to prepare to pass the test.

V-SPECIAL CONDITIONS:

             If any dispute, a current policy will always be used. A special consideration needs to be made by the management level when it is encountered not in the written policy.

VI-SCHOOL RESERVES ITS RIGHT:

             The school reserves its right not to accept student who, seen, is not ready for the road test. The school reserves its right to drop off the student with a refund when seeing that student does not cooperate with an instructor. When the refund is given any obligation and liability to the service is null. The policy may change at any time without notice; therefore one enrollment can not be exactly the same as the other.

VII-SPECIAL OFFERS:

             For student, who is a Road Test Sponsor Student of SIMS Driving School, will be offered a special discount of twenty (20%) percent off from a regular Road Test Sponsor price to a second and a subsequent road test. The twenty percent discount comes to seventy nine ($79) dollars instead of ninety nine ($99) dollars. The student is also offered a Referral Reward of fifteen ($15) dollars for referring a full course student to SIMS Driving School.

VIII-SPECIAL NOTE: 

Any charge or fee made by the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles is a student own expense and responsibility. They are; fifteen ($15) dollars for a Driver's Certificate fee, twenty ($20) dollars for a road test fee, and forty ($40) dollars for a Driver's License issuance. Base on Massachusetts Law, road test will be cancelled automatically when public school system at the location closed or State Emergency.

IX- AUTHORS:

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X- NOTIFICATION:

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Enforcement is the effectiveness of the policy.