How To Keep The Costs Down when Learning to Drive

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To keep your costs to a minimum, I would split your training between private practice and driving
lessons, half with a driving school and half private practice.
A complete novice aged between 17-20yrs old with no previous experience, will need 40hrs of training plus 20hrs of private practice to reach current test standards, these are the latest figures published by the DSA.

 Check out this link to verify this http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/LearnerAndNewDrivers/PracticalTest  /DG_4022483.

We have found that you can get away with around 50hrs of on road experience, split equally between driving lessons and private practice with our Instructors, so it would cost you £500 with the rates we charge which is £20/hr to get to test standard. We do achieve a very high 1st time pass rate using this technique,
this is based on the fact that the pupil is having a minimum lesson time of 1.5hrs, this does increase your chances of passing 1st time, pupils taking 1hr lessons  are a lot less likely to achieve this.
So if you budget for 1.5hr lesson a week the cost would be £30/week, if you do 1.5hrs a week private practice it will take just over 4 months to get to test standard the over all cost would be £500.

If you don,t have access to a car then if you target 50hrs of training, with a minimum of 1.5hr driving lessons
the cost will be £1,000 to reach test standard and take just over 8 months, so if you can do private practice you can halve the the cost and halve the amount of time taken to get to test standard.

You can reduce the time taking dramatically by increasing the number of lessons you have each week and
increasing your private practice, with just 2 lessons a week and 2 private practice sessions a week at 1.5hr durations you could reach test standard in just 9 weeks.This will of course increase your spend to £60/week
but halve the timescale  taken to reach test standard, but will still only cost £500.

If you go to test with less hours than this you will more than likely fail, this is one of the reasons why the pass rate is so low, so target 50hrs minimum of on road experience and do 1.5hr training sessions duration and this will increase your chances of passing 1st time dramatically, we achieve 50% plus 1st time pass rate using this technique and a 70% overall pass rate. The national average pass rate is 43% and the 1st time pass rate is
33% so if you do not want to keep going back to the test center for retests please take this on board.
Around 90% of our pupils pass 1st or 2nd time around 10% can take more, but it is nerves or lack of concentration that causes these pupils to fail not their ability to drive.
So If you don,t want to achieve double figures before passing your test and quite a lot do, then follow this plan who ever you learn to drive with.

The Top 10 Reasons for People Failing Their Driving Test

www.adeptdrive.co.uk The top 10 reasons that people fail their driving test are

1. Acting Improperly at Road Junctions:- approach speed to fast, not stopping behind the give way
                    line, lack of observations at a junction.

                2. Left Reverse Around  a Corner:- hitting the curb, reversing wide, lack of observations.

                3. Incorrect Steering:- crossing hands, driving with only one hand on the wheel, letting steering 
                    wheel spin back after turning a corner.

                4. Reverse Park:-hitting the curb, to far from the curb, lack of observations.

                5. Improper Use of Gears:- incorrect gear for the speed you are traveling at.

                6. Effective Use of Mirrors:- not checking before change of speed, not checking before a change
                    direction, and frequently.

                7. Driving to Slowly:- not making progress, drive to the speed limit if it is safe to do so.

                8. Right Turns:- cutting the corner, observations.

                9. Undue Hesitation:- stopping at junctions when not necessary,waiting to long at junctions before
                    emerging.

                10. Moving Off Incorrectly:- not checking your mirrors, not checking your blind spot.

How to Deal with Driving Test Nerves

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If you do suffer from nerves on the test day, I would suggest you take some thing for it such as rescue remedy, calm, confidence these are all herbal remedies and do help take the edge off for many pupils.
If you have tried these before and they did not work for you, I have had people go to their doctor and get prescription drugs, in some cases I have had pupils have hypnotherapy and this has helped them pass their test.
You can now download hypnotherapy tape for driving test nerves which is a cheaper option here is a link
which you could go to www.hypnosisdownloads.com this has worked for a few of my pupils.

How Many Hours Will it Take Me to Pass My Driving Test?

www.adeptdrive.co.uk It depends on how many hours experience you have previously had,
for a complete novice aged between 17-20yrs old the national average is 40-50hrs on road experience this can be a combination of private practice and driving lessons.
These figures can be verified on the DSA website, If you really want a good chance of passing 1st time then you should target 50hrs, I would do longer than 1hr lessons the best length lesson lesson is 1.5hrs.
The longer lesson means you learn quicker, need less lessons,retain more and more importantly learn to drive at test standard for longer, this will improve your chances of passing 1st time.
The national average pass rate is 43% the 1st time pass rate is 33%, look for a driving school with a high pass rate don't just ask price. Our average pass rate is 60-70% our first time pass rate is 50%+ this is the type of pass rate you should be looking for, this will mean you found a top quality driving school.

Adept Drive 2009 Driving Test Pass Rates

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We wish every one a Happy New Year and hope you all had a great Christmas.
Our Pass Rates for 2009 were just a good as the previous years but our 1st Time Pass rate
was amazing even for us, we are one of the very few driving schools who publish pass rates on their
websites, I wonder why?
The Overall 2009 PASS RATE 84 TESTS 59 PASSED = 70%
The 2009 1ST TIME PASS RATE  50 PASSED 33 PASSED 1ST TIME = 66%
we now offer Automatic Driving Lessons.

New Service and Re Brand Next Year

www.adeptdrive.co.ukWe will now be offering Automatic lessons next year, also we will be re-branding the cars, adverts, and website
with our unique selling point this will be  "The 1st Time Experts" currently the national average 1st time pass rate
is 33% ours is currently 60% for 2009, it does vary between 50-60% but it is an amazing figure.

So we will be pushing this a lot to get the message across to potential customers in 2010, so you can get top quality driving schools locally with out paying national driving school premiums.

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