Just so you know, that wasn't my experience at Shooters in Little Egg Harbor earlier this week. The instructor was very nice, easy to like, and generally agreeable. The course of fire was not difficult but the instructor felt that there was a need to put everyone under pressure. Not sure why.
There was some yelling, time limits, two shot and three shot drills. Commands to "holster" frequently which were handled by laying your gun on the counter - no actual holsters. There was no time set aside to reload, you had to reload as you were being kind-of yelled at to shoot "three more rounds" or whatever the drill of the moment was. I had a compact .380 since I thought you needed to qualify with what you carried and only had two 6 round mags. I struggled to keep up and missed taking a few shots. To be fair, the yelling wasn't drill-sargent-in-your-face style yelling but I don't know why it was needed at all. It was also difficult to hear commands over the shooting with electric ear protection because every shot shuts down your ear muffs for half a second and we were shooting fast so you could probably only hear 1/3 of the time.
Shots were taken at lots of different distances and I don't think we actually shot out to 15 yards, probably closer to 10 or 11yds max. I think we shot 30 rounds according to the ammo left in my box but I didn't count so I'm guessing. Everyone passed. I saw everyone else's target and never counted hits but I think the instructor may have been generous in scoring.
That said, after the shooting, which I didn't particularly enjoy, the instructor was once again very helpful, friendly, and accommodating. We could put up to 4 handguns on the forms and as I said, everyone passed.
If you're going to shooters I recommend: (1) arrive 15 minutes early to pay - the class starts on time! (2) Bring the serial numbers of the guns you want to include on the form. You can't uncase your guns in the classroom and you won't have time in the range to write the numbers down, (3) Bring enough magazines to shoot 30 rounds and start loading them as soon as you get into the range. You won't have much time before the shooting starts.