Subjects covered in driving lessons

 

We have listed below a brief list of the areas covered during driving lessons. At the end of each lesson we will give you typed information sheets.

 

  • What you must take with you when you take the Theory and Practical Driving tests

  • The Theory test

  • The Hazard Perception test

  • How long will it take to learn to drive and pass my driving test?

  • Some facts that might interest you and advised reading

  • If you have to cancel a lesson

  • Four safety checks, precautions before starting the car and the foot pedals

  • The gears - where they are and how to use them

  • The steering and the horn

  • How the foot pedals operate the care

  • Moving away from the side of the road

  • Stopping by the side of the road

  • When you first start to practise

  • Gears

  • What you should do if you stall and alternative ways of dropping a gear

  • Clutch control

  • reading the road ahead and dealing with junctions

  • Ready, steady, go

  • The handbrake and the hill start

  • Reversing

  • Roundabouts

  • Positioning before turning left or right

  • Meeting

  • Crossing and hesitancy

  • what the examiner wants to see

  • Sharp lefts, blind T junctions and blind crossroads

  • Mirrors

  • Stopping by the side of the road, traffic lights, crossroads signals and pedestrian crossings

  • Keep going and ensure you have the right attitude

  • Turn in the road

  • Reverse to the left

  • Parallel parking

  • Overtaking anything moving

  • The emergency stop

  • Crossovers

  • Driving on, joining and leaving the A5 or motorway

  • When will I be ready to take and pass my driving test?

  • Some articles from various newspapers that might interest you

  • Show me, ask me questions

  • Passplus

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