The Natasha post must be someone who knows these people because they are the worst driving school in Ottawa...hands down. They don't teach their students how to drive. They teach them how to fail. Their cars are death traps. They wouldn't even pass a safety. Suspensions sound like the cars will fall apart. They only teach you a small fraction of what you should know for your driving test simply to make you fail and tell you to take more lessons. How they even managed to get instructors licenses is beyond me. Read Less

Oct 9 2016, one of their instructor's almost ran me off the road around 9pm on Innes Road. I saw that it was an instructor when we were stopped at the red light getting off the 417. He didn't signal either and cut me off in his Jocelyn marked, whited SUV with the DRIVSAF2 license plate. Would you trust the instruction to be acceptable, when the instructor can't drive? Read Less

I enrolled in this driving school a few years back as an older adult who was terrified to drive. I got the theory and practical package for a price that is much higher that most schools in ottawa. After completing the course i not only lost all my confidence but i still did not know how to drive. Initially upon calling i felt they were very pushy and sounded desperate to book me and get me to come in right away and pay in full! The theory part was ok. Jo (Jocelyn ) seemed like a good teacher who seemed to want to built the confidence of nervous first time drivers. Once the theory part was over I called to book the practical part asking for Jo to be my instructor. The receptionist was rude and told me he wasn't available and that it was mandatory for me to complete the practical asap. I ended up with an instructor that was a Nightmare!! Eliot was rude, cold, impatient and intimidating. He was always getting mad at me for making mistakes. He would sometimes kick my leg to tell me to turn left/right and once put his hand in my face when i made a wrong move. I don't think he meant harm by that, he was just rude. He made me loose all my self confidence behind the wheel. Once, we were driving on a quiet street and an ambulance was coming. I got very nervous and he made things worse by yelling move aside and break! Instead of pressing on the breaks i accelerated so he breaked for me. Afterwards he yelled at me-why did you do that? why did you do that? Finally i couldnt take it anymore and told him: BECAUSE IT WAS THE FIRST TIME I DROVE PAST AN AMBULANCE AND I WAS NERVOUS!!!! Nightmare ! At some point he even made me drive him to his bank and park while he went to the bank and went to put gas in the car. All this on the hour I am paying him!! When I called back to speak to Jo and complain all I got as an answer was for me to pay an additional $420 to retake 10 lessons and then i was was asked how soon i can come in to pay! I was hoping for compensation, an apology or to get a refund.. Terrible. PLEASE do yourself a favor DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME MONEY CONFIDENCE OR ENERGY GOING TO THIS SCHOOL. Years later i met up with a neighbor who had the same terrible experience at this school .. She told me she finally learned to drive by attending another driving school and encouraged me to do so as well. It took me a while to gain back the courage and self confidence that i lost from Jocelyn driving school . Do your research.. Do not go to the worse rated school in Ottawa! Read Less

I enrolled in this driving school a few years back as an older adult who was terrified to drive. I got the theory and practical package for a price that is much higher that most schools in ottawa. After completing the course i not only lost all my confidence but i still did not know how to drive. Initially upon calling i felt they were very pushy and sounded desperate to book me and get me to come in right away and pay in full! The theory part was ok. Jo (Jocelyn ) seemed like a good teacher who seemed to want to built the confidence of nervous first time drivers. Once the theory part was over I called to book the practical part asking for Jo to be my instructor. The receptionist was rude and told me he wasn't available and that it was mandatory for me to complete the practical asap. I ended up with an instructor that was a Nightmare!! Eliot was rude, cold, impatient and intimidating. He was always getting mad at me for making mistakes. He would sometimes kick my leg to tell me to turn left/right and once put his hand in my face when i made a wrong move. I don't think he meant harm by that, he was just rude. He made me loose all my self confidence behind the wheel. Once, we were driving on a quiet street and an ambulance was coming. I got very nervous and he made things worse by yelling move aside and break! Instead of pressing on the breaks i accelerated so he breaked for me. Afterwards he yelled at me-why did you do that? why did you do that? Finally i couldnt take it anymore and told him: BECAUSE IT WAS THE FIRST TIME I DROVE PAST AN AMBULANCE AND I WAS NERVOUS!!!! Nightmare ! At some point he even made me drive him to his bank and park while he went to the bank and went to put gas in the car. All this on the hour I am paying him!! When I called back to speak to Jo and complain all I got as an answer was for me to pay an additional $420 to retake 10 lessons and then i was was asked how soon i can come in to pay! I was hoping for compensation, an apology or to get a refund.. Terrible. PLEASE do yourself a favor DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME MONEY CONFIDENCE OR ENERGY GOING TO THIS SCHOOL. Years later i met up with a neighbor who had the same terrible experience at this school .. She told me she finally learned to drive by attending another driving school and encouraged me to do so as well. It took me a while to gain back the courage and self confidence that i lost from Jocelyn driving school . Do your research.. Do not go to the worse rated school in Ottawa! Read Less

I enrolled in this driving school after hearing my friends had to retake their road test multiple times before passing. I needed my license ASAP, and their flexible hours and friendly staff helped me finish quickly and pass on the first try!! I would absolutely recommend Jocelyn's Driving School to everyone. Read Less

Thanks to each and everyone at Jocelyn's Driving School. I highly recommend, Jocelyn's driving School for a new driver as well as a driver who is experienced in some other country and want to take license in Ontario. Read Less

Not happy with how much it hurt my confidence to go here. First day I got put driving out on to rideau st, could have hit another car easily with how little experience I had. I came to driving school to find patient instruction but I've been plagued by fears of making mistakes in front of instructors instead. It's difficult to understand the instructors' english, they gave me a book to learn from which was good for studying, but when I actually got to being on the road I found very little was being explained. All of the in class lessons basically amount to being frightfully lectured, which I bared through because I was very determined. There's never seemed to be a right answer to any question, you couldn't study the book and know what the answer was to anything snapped at you. For an entire year, going through each hour of class and driving has accompanied awful dread; not fear of being behind the wheel but the fear of being judged by the adult beside me. To be fair I could have tried harder to communicate but I just can't explain how I need the process explained to me. Just because I had to pay money for this does not mean I have to constantly push to have the lesson taught properly to me. I shouldn't be struggling like this just to be on the same page as someone who's suppose to be a teacher. And I really wish I had done my research properly on what driving school to go to. I would salute anyone who actually got through this school as having amazing determination that will take them far in life, because nothing less would take this to be a valid investment of time and money. Quite probably a good school to go to if you speak french where the instruction is better, but if you only speak english it's not a good idea because communication isn't good enough to learn from at an adequate pace. Particularly in comparison to how fast they have you on the road in front of traffic. If you are a person who gets easily paralyzed by new learning environments this can be particularly dangerous, and I fear for beginner drivers like myself who suffer from this more than I do.Read Less