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Driving lessons beginners

Driving lessons to raise your Confidence


Driving lessons for beginners can be quite nerve racking right from the start. How do you start is the first question?
Most new beginners who want driving lessons either ask a friend or relative and take it from there. Professional advice of the right type is not easily found.

Here is the process for car driving lessons for beginners:

  1. You must be 17 years old see DSA rules
  2. You must be able to read a car number plate from 20.5 metres with or without glasses
  3. You must hold a current UK provisional driving licence (Apply online)
  4. You will need to find a good driving instructor

Decide how soon you want to pass your driving test that will determine what types of driving lessons you need to take. Driving lessons are usually weekly, intensive or somewhere inbetween

Weekly driving lessons - beginners

  • Can be taken over any time period to suit yourself. These are the most popular but not the most efficient or the cheapest method to learn to drive. Taking driving lessons at the rate of one driving lesson each week will take you between 1 year to 2 years before you will be test ready. Take a look at the number of driving lessons beginners* will need before they will be ready for a driving test.
    If you followed the link above (*)you saw that around 67 driving lessons will be needed before you can pass your driving test. Take one driving lesson per week add in holidays (yours & your driving instructor) sickness etc. & you soon reach 2 years of driving lessons.

Intensive driving lessons

  • Are the most efficient in terms of time and cost to learn to drive. You remember more when you take an intensive driving course of lessons.
    Your intensive driving course of lessons is ideal for beginners. You should need around 10% less driving lessons.
  • Gone are the days a beginner could have their first driving lesson on a Monday & their driving test on the following Friday - that's the old fashioned way of driving no matter what you see on the internet. Now we have more traffic on the roads and a much stricter driving test.

Driving lessons for beginners

  • New drivers should take an intensive driving course initially so that the information needed to drive a car is locked into the mind. If you take a 7 day 40 hour driving course as a beginner you will be able to drive by the end of your course and have carried out the driving tasks written below. You will not though be driving test ready. Your mind needs time to process all the new driving information you have been given on your course.
  • After you take your initial intensive driving course, whether it is a full 7 day course, a set of weekend driving lessons, or a 3 day course you should take a short break away from your driving lessons so that the new informaion you have aquired can process in your mind.
  • The shortest time a beginner could safely pass their driving test without compromising safety & having a full grasp of all aspects of driving, is around 3 weeks.

Driving lessons - beginners - DSA

Your full driving licence

  • The DSA are the Driving Standards Agency who are responsible for your driver training & driving tests. All professional driving instructors have to be registered with the DSA
  • After you have gone through the 4 steps written above you can plan your driving test so that you can receive your full driving licence
  • There are 3 stages you need to go through to get your full driving licence
  1. Pass your theory test. This should be taken after you have had around 20 driving lessons & prefably never before your first lesson
  2. Pass your hazard perception test (which is carried out at the same time as your theory test)
  3. Pass your driving test. This should only be taken when you are ready to pass & should never be taken just for the experience (the experience will cost you around £100!!! driving test fees + driving school fees)

LATEST UPDATE - AUGUST 5th 2009
100% FIRST TIME PASS RATE at Kings Heath driving test centre for intensive driving courses & all Scottish intensive driving courses including driving lessons.
[1st time pass rate is from January to August 2009]
Here are the marks:
Learner drivers with 5 minor faults = 3 learner drivers
learner drivers with 0 - 4 minor faults = 7 learner drivers
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On all of the MAL-UK intensive driving courses nervous students are treated with patience by myself (I do not employ other driving instructors or contract work out). I am both a professional Life Coach and Driving Instructor Coach


On the MAL-UK intensive driving courses you will be taught to drive to a very high standard in a short space of time without compromising safety. The latest Driving lessons Quantum learning methods are used to help you understand more information in a shorter time than you ever thought possible.

Increase your chance of passing your driving test with a weekend intensive driving course in Birmingham or Scotland. Ideal to top up your driver training just before your driving test
Weekend intensive driving courses



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You can learn to drive in a week*

With an intensive driving course you can learn to drive in 7 days and that has been proven over and over again when you take an intensive driving course with the mal-uk Intensive Driving Courses programme . At the end of your one week intensive driving course you will have completed 40 hours of training and covered the following topics:

  • Moving away on uphill, downhill and flat roads
  • Changing gears through from gear one to gear five
  • Complete a turn in the road (3-point turn)
  • Reverse around a left corner
  • Reverse park
  • Bay park
  • Navigate roundabouts (mini & multi-lane)
  • Turn right & left major to minor roads
  • Turn right & left minor to major roads
  • Understand the Highway Code including theory test
  • Complete an emergency stop
  • Learn the show me tell me question bank
  • Understand and navigate traffic lights
  • Anticipate and deal with other traffic
  • Learn eco friendly driving techniques
  • Understand the driving test marking system
* One week is classed as 7 days.

You will be able to drive after 7 days on an intensive driving course, that's a fact, but you may need more practise to reach driving test standard. See notes written at the start of this page

Intensive driving courses get results FAST


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