Driving test syllabus
The Driving test syllabus is the driving programme that you should be trained to accomplish at a competent level before you take your driving test. More people fail their driving tests than need to because they have not had enough practice on the driving test syllabus itself. For example I personally know of people who have driven every day for over a year (approximately 500 hours of driving) and still fail their driving test. Yet the DSA guidelines recommend you take 67 hours of lessons before you take your driving test. My students take even less than the recommended and are still safer drivers.
Driving test performance is affected by the following:
- The 500 hour person is just driving, not practising specific skills relevant to the driving test enough
- The average person who is being taught the normal way by the basic instruction techniques and probably takes a first test at around 20-30 hours, a second test at around 35-50 hours and a third test at around 60-70 hours
- The person taught by myself using 21st century quantum learning techniques is both a safe and competent driver in less hours than by using any other training method.
In the above examples you may well wonder why learner in number 2 example takes their first test at around 20-30 hours. There are many reasons but the usual ones are:
a) Financial
b) Family pressure
c) Taking one lesson per week seems like forever (especially with missed lessons) so the learner says to the driving instructor "I have been driving for nearly a year now, I want to take my driving test"
As you may have realised you have to grow into the part of the safe driver for life. Quantum learning when applied to any subject is a natural way to grow into that part in a shorter space of time than the usual training methods.
On your intensive driving course you will be personally trained by myself (I do not contract work out to other driving schools) to be able to carry out the following tasks as required by the driving test syllabus;
- Driving your car away on flat, uphill and downhill roads safely
- Changing gears correctly and selecting the correct gear.
- Turning right and left major roads to minor roads and minor roads to major roads
- Navigating mini roundabouts and normal to large roundabouts
- Using your indicators correctly at all times
- Meeting and dealing with other traffic on narrow streets and main roads
- Driving at 70 mph along a dual carriageway (subject to one being available)
- Turning your car around in the road using forward and reverse gears
- Reversing around a corner
- Parallel park your car behind another vehicle
- Park your car by reversing, into a parking bay
- Stopping your car in an emergency
- Vehicle safety checks
- Understanding and following the Highway code rules
- Drivers attitude, both yours and others. How it affects your driving
- Stopping at the side of the road in a safe place
The above driving test syllabus is meant as the training guide for all learner drivers. On your driving test your driving examiner will not have time to carry out the complete driving test syllabus. You as the learner driver though must be able to drive according to the driving test syllabus if you are going to pass your driving test.
Should you be worried about any of the above topics in the driving test syllabus then you have not practiced that particular topic enough. All of my students are not concerned what the driving examiner will ask them to do, they are confident in all areas, otherwise I would not let them take their driving test.
