How many lessons?

muffinz

Hey, so Ive been learning to drive since around November. Ive had around 12 lessons so far, and Im still yet to learn how to reverse or park. My friend got lessons from an official company and was completely finished in 10 lessons (I go to a person who now teaches part time at the weekends). I have been interrupted a bit with the snow and whatnot, but Im just wondering out of interest, how many lessons did you guys have before you were ready to take the test? For some reason I feel like Im being swindled or something... My mum was shocked to hear that by my 12th lesson he still hadnt attempted to teach me this stuff!

_Conrad_

the answer is as many as it takes to become sufficiently capable at driving to pass the test, and then be able to drive safely after it. If there are things you want to learn, ask the instructor. If that doesnt work out you may want to consider switching to another one if you and this current one are incompatible

DrivingTestTips: Brian

There are free video tutorials on DrivingTestTips which will help you.

You should take as many lessons as you can; just make sure the instructor is ADI.

I hope this helps.

muffinz

I have my next lesson on Wednesday, Ill see how it goes then thanks

ADIDriving

A draft lesson plan for the upcomming 12 compulsory lessons from the RSA suggest turnabouts and reverse around corners is done in the fifth lesson. Personally I leave it later. It does depend on how good you are at the important stuff like driving forwards, turning etc. You might not have these sorted yet or you might be way better then your friend, but they just chose to stop. As well as the suggestion of ensuring your instructor is an ADI, I would also suggest a full time instructor. If you want to learn these things, ask your instructor.

Captain Havoc

I took loads of lessons but I wouldn't do it any different. From the time of applying for my provisional to passing my (3rd) test took almost one year. I was doing one or lessons a week and then going for a couple of long drives with my mother. I got a car about four or five months after I got my provisional. The closer to each test the more frequent the lessons going up to three lessons in a week. I now have loads of money to spend since I'm not paying for lessons My instructor eventually started giving me heavy discounts because I was broke

DrivingTestTips: Brian

Captain Havoc wrote: »

I took loads of lessons but I wouldn't do it any different. From the time of applying for my provisional to passing my (3rd) test took almost one year. I was doing one or lessons a week and then going for a couple of long drives with my mother. I got a car about four or five months after I got my provisional. The closer to each test the more frequent the lessons going up to three lessons in a week. I now have loads of money to spend since I'm not paying for lessons My instructor eventually started giving me heavy discounts because I was broke

Well done for putting so much into learning to drive.

I hope you saved a lot on your insurance after you passed your test. Usually after you pass your test the savings make up for the cost of learning.

Once again, "WELL DONE!"

Reloc8

From memory I had about 10 lessons in total, 2 or 3 of which I write off a bit - that is the first 2 or 3, following which I changed instructor before passing. I had an excellent ADI for the last 7 or 8 lessons.

What helped me immensely was the amount of supervised driving I did outside of lessons - at least 4 or 5 decent length drives per week over the six month period between getting a first provisional and passing.

Still couldn't park at the end of that period - we never practiced this (that is to say parralell parking as opposed to pulling over/driving into a space)

**Timbuk2**

When I was learning / preparing for the test, I found short but frequent drives around town to be more helpful than long drives. Once you are used to controlling the car, it isn't that difficult to drive on 80 and 100km/h roads. I, personally, found it better practice going with my mother everytime she was doing shopping so I could drive. It's great practice controlling the car at slow speeds, dealing with very heavy traffic, parking (both parallel and bay), etc. I used to do the regular route she took, with a few additions ("whoops, I turned into a cul de sac, I'd better do a turnabout :P").

Just my opinion though. My brother is currently learning how to drive, but he is only at the 'start' of the process and isn't confident enough to face the town yet. Although he has been driving to shopping centres on the outskirts of town, which is good too!