I Pass My Road Test in 1st Attempt. MR. SHYAM is a good Instructor. It was a good learning with you. Thank you again. read more

I gave them a star because Yelp doesn't accept less than that. Last Saturday I was driving my car by Cambridge, waiting for the light on a single lane road. There was a 3-4 cars waiting behind me for the light, too. Suddenly I noticed I car was very very close to me, to my right, which made its way between my car, the bike lane and the parked car on the road. The light changed, I moved my car and I scratched my car badly. I kept going a few blocks to pull over and stop the drivers. It was a Student Driver from this School, located in Cambridge. The driver's teacher or the student made no attempt to pull over until I did to ask for their documents. They blamed me that "I should be careful if there is a student driver". How could have I predicted they unlawfully would use the bike lane to squeeze their car next to mine? Unacceptable for many reasons 1) this teacher needs to be better acknowledging their fault and teach his student better, 2) they didn't pull over until I asked them to!, no accountability whatsoever 3) Extremely rude attitude. Teacher's name is : WILNER OBAS I would not take my child to that driver's school. read more

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I called this WJO school and the person sounded very unprofessional and quoted astronomical prices, which seemed as though he was making up as he spoke! A SCAM indeed!!!! read more

WOMEN'S BEWARE The instructor tried to grope me twice "by accident" and used fear tactics for me not to report. They pray on immigrants and are quite unprofessional and rude. read more

Really really really bad experience. I would like to point out that I have several years of driving experience. I wanted to take a few lessons after I relocated to the US. I was shocked by the appalling quality of instruction. There were several issues which I had with the instructor. 1. The instructor was on the phone for the entire lesson. So I had to listen out for when he would say left turn etc. 2. He ran several errands during the lesson by making me stop at various locations, picking up other students, etc. At one point he wanted me to make an abrupt stop on the corner of a road. I did not feel that it was safe to stop, he then grabbed the steering wheel and swerved the car to stop. He then got out the car and went to collect something. This all happened whilst he was on the phone. 3. Also he does not have a separate rear view mirror for him to see out of, so he kept moving the one mirror I had to check the rear view. This was terrible as I could not adequately complete my mirror signal manovure. 4. What is worse is that he did not finish my lesson at my pick up location after the hour was complete. Instead I was dropped off during another students lesson an hour and a half later. I missed a prior appointment I had as a result! 5. When I pointed out these issues and explained that I was strongly disappointed the instructor completely denied his lack of instruction and negligence during my lesson. He did not realize his faults. I strongly recommend against this driving instructor! Spend your money elsewhere with a reputable driving school. read more

Terrible instruction, and really really bad service, and he's on the phone the ENTIRE time. He yells at you when you don't do what he says even though you can't tell he's speaking to you because he's on the phone. IT was an actually a waste of my time, and the worst decision I ever made, and please save yourself the disappointment. I specifically told him I would no longer be taking classes from him at the end of August. Come to find out yesterday at the rmv that he set up a road to test for me in September without my knowledge or permission, and now I have to pay for a road test fee I didn't register for. read more

I would strongly advise to not use this driving school to get your driver's license. The instructor is unreliable, lacks communications skills, money hungry; overall a scam. My nephew did not pass his first driving test. So when he went to go and take his second road test at the DMV, the instructor stated to my nephew at the road test that my nephew had to pay for the test again! He never told my nephew he had to pay for the road test again. My Nephew said other people at the road test were arguing with the instructor for the same reason. This is disappointing as I took this driving school years ago with no issues. Don't use this driving school!!! read more

This is essentially a scam. The person had me drive him to Dunkin' Donuts and to pick up and drop off his friends, this lasted until I drove to the next student. I was not taught, 3 point turns or parallel parking. It cost me 35$ for less than 45 minutes of driving, he had me do this about 6 times, costing a total of $210. and then about 45 minutes in the back of the car while someone. He was often late for appointments. Before he would schedule a road test. I couldn't understand him, and for most of these rides he spoke loudly with his friend, and barked "left" or "right" at me at the last second. Often he arrived late. Finally, I was scheduled a road test, and and I had to pay $185 at the site of the road test, where about 30 more students did the same. In addition to the $35 driving fee that I will now have to pay extra to receive my license. I failed the road test, not unsurprisingly. Evidently, I've found out later, it's illegal to have students pay at the time and site of the test. All told, I was effectively robbed of $440 to drive someone around, $35 of which I owe the registry of motor vehicles. As you may not know, it's nearly impossible to schedule a road test due to the power driving schools have in absorbing all of the road test times. read more

Let me tell you something about my bad experience in this school. I had paid $510 dollars for 10 classes including a $135 road test. I joined this school thinking that was good but I found nothing good in this driving school. My instructor was named William and he never taught me in his free time. He always sat on my side hanging on his phone calling someone. Moreover, he is a money hunger and spammer. He did not give my road test fee back even though I didn't want to take the road test through him. Actually, he made me for a road test on Saturday and I couldn't make it. And I asked him to make an appointment on the weekdays but he said, no. He only makes an appointment for a road test on Saturday but I never have the time for a road test on Saturday because of my religious observance. so I asked him to give me my money back of the road test fee but said that he can't. So I highly recommend not to go to this driving school. only waste of money and time. read more

I am in the market for a driving school and am finally going to learn how to drive as a 20 something! This is in my neighborhood... I thought I should check them out until I saw an instructor parked in the bike lane in Porter Sq right nearby an intersection where a cyclist was killed in the bike lane due to a drivers' negligence. It's pretty safe to say I won't be learning to drive from this school! read more

W J O Driving School - This probably isn't the best guy to learn to drive from... - Driving Schools Near Me - Cambridge, Massachusetts

OK.. let me make it simple..Do not waste your time and money. He is all the time busy over the phone. I paid for 1 hour, he came 10 mins late and drop me 15 mins earlier. No sense of talking, No responsibility, No Attention. 75% of his candidates failed in TEST. Entire lesson he was just on phone. ********* HIGHLY NOT RECOMMENDED ********* read more

Pros: ------- 1) Wilner runs WJO and teaches the classes. He is a good teacher, patient and encouraging. He points out your mistakes and makes you practice. 2) Timely. Wilner shows up right on time and at the place you ask him to meet you. I've never had to reschedule. 3) Wilner tells you what you need to do to pass road test and has a good success rate - I got my license at my first try with him. Cons: ------- 1) Road test fee is a bit steep ($100). His charges for lessons are standard ($40/hr). read more

Summary: Rough around the edges. Will get the job done on teaching you how to drive, but don't expect a professional experience at all. The details: I wanted to be nice and rate 3/5 as neutral, but the more I think back, the more unpleasant I found the whole experience. I called them up to try and schedule an hour lesson. The person who picked up didn't give his name, didn't announce his business, I had no way of knowing if I had called the right number until I asked straight out that I'd like driving lessons. He cut to the chase very bluntly, saying, "Okay, how about ____'oclock". I had to ask him to elaborate, to confirm he meant today, at that time. Then he switched it around, offered me another time. Then switched back, offering me a later time. He had a very thick, harsh accent so this conversation was kind of frustrating, but in the end, I confirmed a time. He then hung up. He had never asked my name, and didn't even know it. I showed up at his 'office' ten minutes early. When he did not show up at the hour, I called him. He said he'd 'be there soon'. I knew he was finishing up a session with a person right before me, so I let it slide, but again, it seemed pretty unprofessional to 1) be late and 2) not call ahead to tell your potential client. When he finally called for me to come down, I had to wait outside the driving car while he sat inside with the earlier customer and talked, closing up the lesson. I didn't get to start 'my' appointment until 15 minutes after the hour. Once inside the car I got to take a look at this person, who turned out to be a middle-aged black gentleman. I had no way of guessing what his nationality was that gave him such a strong accent, and also, I still did not know his name. He made no attempt to introduce himself, no greeting, he just launched into asking what I wanted, if I wanted a package, which package, because he didn't do the whole pay by the hour thing. He seemed disgruntled when I asked if I could try an hour and then decide, but he agreed. The packages btw, where something like: 6-sessions, ~$145 + automatic $170(?) road test fee or 10 sessions for ~$270 His hourly rates are $40/hour. Anyway, after a bit of a lull, I asked if I could 'start'. He just said 'yea'. I should mention at this point that he had the heat blasting at max, and also the radio playing loudly a very staticy foreign broadcast, I'm assuming his native language. I expected maybe he'd tone it down for the instructional lesson, but nope. That radio blasted the entire hour. Sometimes the static would be so bad, it'd be pure static, not talk, it was distracting and unpleasant to listen to. The car itself was pretty decent, old-smelling but clean and functional and responsive. It was a true driver-ed car, with two sets of brake pedals, so that he can intervene. The lesson' consisted mostly of me driving around, with him telling me at random to turn left here, or right there. He did not give much advice at all, and did no explaining. If I made a mistake, he'd just bark out "Slower! Slower! Go go! Stop!", and if I drifted too right, he'd just yank my steering wheel the other way with a short "No don't do that". I can take hints so I kind of figured out what to do right and what to watch out for, but since I'm paying for him to teach me, I feel he could have done a much better job explaining what and how to do it RIGHT instead of just waiting for me to make a mistake. Also one time he told me to turn 'Right', but it turns out he meant a U-turn and of course that caused a small mess of cars beeping and him yanking the steering wheel. Probably the most offensive part of the entire lesson was that he would take personal calls. It's bad enough he's pretty silent the entire ride except to order me around, it's worse that he doesn't try to give tips or explain road theory, but it is just completely unprofessional for him to take personal calls. And they were long ones too, real conversations. Sometimes he'd be so involved in a conversation he wouldn't notice a turn approaching that he wanted me to make, and he'd yell out "Right!" pretty much at the turn, forcing me to brake hard just so I could make it. This happened more than once. He also didn't wear his seat belt the entire lesson, so that's a great role model there. He had me try one K-turn, and one curb parking, and that was it as far as practicing maneuvers. I couldn't wait for the lesson to be over, and the lesson ended by me having to drive to pick up his next customer where ever she was waiting. At least they then drove to drop me off near my house, so that was a small perk. Oh and in the 5 minutes I rode with them, he took another personal call, and behaved pretty much the same, so at least I didn't receive negative treatment simply for not taking a package. Yea...so...I'm never going back. I could've gotten a much more enjoyable, thorough lesson with a parent or friend. read more

Extremely poor experience with this company. -The coach never comes on time. Cuts the hours that you should have had, and he has all the excuses, like traffic, he was with other person. And he usually would end up he lesson exactly on time. -Had three times he "cancelled" the appointments just because he was late almost 25mins, or maybe he totally forgot, without noticing me until I called him and listened to his excuses. -He "explained" the road test is $135, which is everyone knows the regular road test price is $85. Within 10 hours lessons as the package, $40 for per hour, he asked for $480, includes "discount". See how much he and this company earns from the students. -Every time when I was with him in the lesson, he always making calls, not even pay attention to the way you drive, no contents, no practices, no meaning, only telling you go right or left. -Mostly he spends time around David Sq, Porter Sq and Central. Sometimes Harvard, and people all knows how many traffic lights you need to wait, and that's in your lessons, he wouldn't even care. Very curious how far this company could go with those unacceptable and unprofessional attitude. read more

If there is less than one star i would give this company !! Instructor is always talking on phone during the lesson and he is also not paying attention to the road taking the middle mirror all the time from the driver . The big thing is that after paying 135$ twice for the exam with him and failing when we went to the RMV they told us they never received any money from this driving School and we have to pay no show fees for 2 times !!!!!!! Really !!! This is totally scam ! And i will find a way to legally to take an action against them . read more

Honestly, save your money and go else where. The driver was terrible, he was late single day by an hour or more. He talks on the phone and he does not give you the proper attention that you as the client paid for. He forgets his appointments, you have to call him to remind him and he is a awful teacher. He uses your time to run his errands and check things off his to do list. The first day I scheduled with him he arrived very late. I should of saw that sign and ran for the hills, but I decided to give him a chance: Terrible mistake. I noticed on each bad review the WJO received, its all for the same reasons. I wish I read these reviews before I signed up for the package. read more

Horrible "driving school". The teacher called Wilner(there is only one, mind you) is mostly late or barely in time. Always on the phone, as the other reviewers have already said. He will even forget appointments at times, always has countless excuses for it. Three of the classes I took, he made me stop somewhere for 15-20 minutes so he can grab something for himself. Driving test is absurdly $135, compared to $85 to which I just became aware of. None of the other students seemed satisfied with him as I connected with all of them before the test today. Let me tell you the story.. We were told to meet up at 1 at his office; he wasn't there until 1:10. As people started showing up, we signed up and waited for an hour and a half. He said three of the people that had already paid for the class, didn't pay until they made him remember when they paid for him. Two of them had been wrongly appointed(he didn't sign them for the actual test, just took their money!) and had to leave home after wasting their time. When we finally left, it was about 3:15, reached Dorchester around 4:15 stuck in an hour of traffic. There were three people already there(one of them since 12!), who had been waiting in the freezing cold outside the test station. When asked why he told them to come so early, he said that it's the station's fault which he has no control of(he victimizes himself, put the blame on someone else so people can't put it on him; that's his psychological ploy that I've noticed him use countless times, not even nearly a quarter responsible as a teacher should be). After waiting another hour or so, the actual two instructors finally came out, and took the tests. My work started at 6 and I was definitely late since it ended at 615, probably the worst case scenario for choosing a bad driving school to sum it up. Do yourselves a favor and go to international driving school or friendly's; when I told their students my experience, they said their's was heavenly even though they had encountered some flaws on their own. Good luck with your experience and test, happy driving :) read more