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[driver67]

How many lessons did it take you to pass your driving test?

How many lessons would you expect it to take if you haven't passed yet, or just starting lessons?

Do you feel your Driving Instructor is ripping you off?

The reason for asking, I feel a lot of people don't understand how long in general it takes to pass a driving test and be safe on the UK roads.

Prospective learners should be made fully aware as early as possible that to be fully safe on the roads, it takes time, the Driving Standards Agency say about 40 hours Professional tuition combined with about 20 hours private training.

Thats not saying it will take that long, it may take longer, some people pass with fewer lessons.

I find the students who read about learning to drive and have been around cars a long time usually do better.

Tell me your thoughts?
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[Turbo_10]

How often?

That is up to you, and on how much time and money you can afford to spend each week, but we offer the following advice:

Have lessons as frequently as you can afford. At least one per week. Two is much better, you will learn more than twice as quickly. However, we do not recommend that you have lessons too intensively, if you can avoid it.

Have lessons regularly. If you have lessons now and then, you will make progress, but you will probably end up taking more lessons this way. If you train regularly and frequently, you will not get "rusty" between lessons. You will not spend a part of your lesson getting back to where you left off last time.

Some pupils' report that they prefer one and a half-hour and occasionally two hour lessons rather than one hour. They feel these longer lessens give them more time to get into their driving. Others prefer the traditional one-hour lesson. Lessons of less than one hour are too short. They simply do not give you enough time to get "warmed up" and into the lesson.

Allow your instructor to organise a properly structured training schedule for you.
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