I passed my driving test yesterday with 4 minors first time! I took 13 lessons in the space of 6 weeks and It was honestly the best feeling. It isn’t that different to driving lessons depending on how your instructor teaches you. Focus on doing mock tests (atleast 5 before your test) and good luck!
Have you seen any studies/evidence proving that dry steering is actually bad for modern cars, or is it all "common sense"? I can't find any studies etc. My partner has been driving for 17 years (old Ford Ka, and 2012 Honda Civic), and has always dry steered for reverse manoeuvres, and never had mechanical problems with anything steering related - also hasn't had to replace tyres overly frequently. I can see many others online saying the same thing (with lots of people ridiculing them). I'm learning to drive, and it seems to me that for parallel park and reverse bay park, it's much easier to do a consistent setup and all observations correctly with dry steering, since it eliminates the variables of how quickly I steer or what speed I'm going while steering.
Best wishes mate! Remember forward planning all the time, I advice commentary for this as this will help the examiner get an understanding into your thought process and it will keep you focussed, even when you make mistakes. You'll smash this test mate, I believe in you! You can do anything that you put your mind to! 😊
Great tips, I did some commentary driving on my test and the examiner was saying how much they love that as they get a better idea of your awareness and planning. Mine was so friendly and we had some great chats and jokes, it was nice he said at the end he could have had a mug of tea with him and wouldn’t have spilt it as I was a calm driver. I actually thanked him after for being so nice and putting me at ease. I also commented about appropriate speed on say a dual carriageway where I could have been at 60mph but due to ridiculous levels of roadworks didn’t get past 45mph, felt at least I’d said what I would do in normal driving conditions. Since passing I set mini targets and ones been gradually slowing before say a 30mph stretch or lights so I’m not using the brakes too much.
Thanks for your videos they have really helped me in passing my test yesterday. I was doing a mixture of commentating and talking to the examiner and it really helped! They are only human and from my experience really nice.
Do you have any pupils that have passed and have driving anxiety? I live in Ireland, which is.. pretty similar to UK when it comes to driving and I have crippling anxiety, even though I passed first time. Been trying to force myself to do little trips, and while I feel that I'm slowly getting more confident I'm still noticing that I try to avoid it unless absolutely necessary. Would make for a good video :)
I tried the commenting today whilst driving to work with my wife as a guide. It made a huge difference to nerves, reacting to the hazards etc plus everything that needs to be done becomes automatic. Such a great tip
@@DrivingSchoolTVtotal of 2 minors, not bad considering I had to jump straight out of a 4 hour drive in a big van, and straight to the test centre. Got a minor for awareness and planning because I missed a sat nav turning, literally 30 seconds from the end of the sat nav section, didn't think they'd give a minor for that, maybe they expect better from an adi 🤷
@@DamianC_Official omg Yes they really are!! How fair dyu think it is that once you pass your test and get your ps you’re still so restricted on what you can do? Over here when you pass you doing even have to wear ps and display you’ve only just passed!
