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Driving Test Curriculum
Here’s how we’ll take you from complete beginner to confident, test-ready driver in four clear stages.
Stage 1 – Getting to Know the Car
What you’ll learn:
- Learning the interior of the car
- Move the car
- Stop the car
- Pulling over on the side of the road
- Up the gears
- Down the gears
- Steering
- Left turns
- Right turns
Stage 2 – Building Road Skills
What you’ll learn:
- Pedestrian crossings
- Traffic lights
- Roundabouts
- Hill starts
- Adequate clearance (keeping good distance away from things on the road)
- Meeting traffic (where you have to pull in behind parked cars to give way to oncoming cars)
Stage 3 – Test Preparation
What you’ll learn:
- Sat Nav
- Test routes
- Hotspots (these are the tricky parts that catch people out on the test)
- Manoeuvres (parallel park, reverse bay park, forward bay park, right reverse)
- Show me questions (these are the questions they ask while driving – these can be found online)
- Bonnet checks (engine oil, brake fluid, engine coolant, windscreen wash)
(The driving test will be booked at the end of this stage, so please ensure the theory test is passed by the end of Stage 3.)
Stage 4 – Test Ready
What you’ll learn:
- Emergency stop
- Independent driving (this is where you have to follow the road signs)
- A roads
- Hotspots
- Manoeuvres
- Nevendon/Sadlers Farm and Fairglen roundabouts (this is if you take a driving test in Basildon)
- Mock test (it will be planned so that the driving test comes the day after the mock test lesson)
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