Monday, December 27, 2010

Car Insurance for Students

Being a student isn't easy. Tuition fees can get very high and getting to college with your parents can be quite uneasy and embarrassing, so you buy a car. Paying insurance on a car is never easy, especially for students. Here is an article by Sandra Clinton about easing this payment.

Student Car Insurance

Okay, so every now and then people will suspect that faction they belong to gets charged more for car insurance, and most of the time they are wrong. An insurance company could get in a lot of trouble if they based their rates on race or gender. They will not make that easy of a mistake. Still, they are able to get away with charging younger people more. This is somewhat justified. Younger people are less responsible. This is because they have not been given a chance to prove their responsibility yet. So, if you are looking for student insurance, you might have to pay a little more because of your age. Still, there are ways to prove that you are responsible enough to have lower rates. You just need to prove to the insurance company that you are mature enough to have lower rates.

Student car insurance rates are sometimes determined by the grades that the student is getting. If you are getting higher grades your insurance company might charge you less for insurance. This is a good incentive to do well in school. If you are a student you probably don't have too much money to spend on student car insurance to begin with. So, try improving your grades to see if you can get a good deal!

There are other things that can help you with student car insurance. If your parents have low insurance rates then they can add you to their plans and that can save you a lot of money. It's always cheaper to get added to other people's plans for things. Just think about it. Cell phones, gyms, and just about everything is cheaper if you add yourself onto someone else's plan. So, talk to your parents about being put onto their plan. You can tell them that you will pay for your part, but you would like to get a deal by being on their plan.

Lastly, we should talk about the negative impression people have about student car insurance. Some people think that student car insurance is somehow not as good of an insurance policy as adult insurance. That is just ridiculous. If you do get in an accident, your insurance company should be able to help you out. They should be able to do just as much as they would do for an adult. That doesn't mean they will, but they should. So make sure you don't just go for the cheapest rate around.

Hopefully this will help you find great student car insurance. You might have to do some hunting but it will be worth it. Be clever, because you are trying to prove to the companies that you are more than just a kid. You are a responsible driver who wants to pay as little as possible for car insurance.

Source: EzineArticles.com.

Thank you Sandra! This will definitely help many students out there.

Nadav

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