27 Skills you need to pass your driving test
When you learn to drive, you’ll be learning and practising 27 important driving skills that you’ll need for a lifetime of safe driving. Learn with a driving instructor It’s unlikely that anyone except an approved driving instructor (ADI) will have the experience, knowledge and training to teach you properly. They’re
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St Albans Driving Test Routes
To make driving tests more representative of real-life driving, the DVSA no longer publishes official test routes. However, you can find a number of recent routes used at the St Albans driving test centre below. While test routes from this centre are likely to be very similar to those below,
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Will a chipped or cracked windscreen fail the MOT?
A damaged or cracked windscreen could result in an MOT fail. If there is windscreen damage of 40mm or more in size, anywhere on the windscreen, your vehicle will fail its MOT. And the crack will need to be fixed before being re-tested. However, even a 10mm-sized damage on a
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Speed limit changes
It sounds obvious, yet many people have been flashed by cameras as they sped up because they saw a sign for a new higher speed limit, but they hadn’t actually passed the sign yet. This has also caused learners problems on test.
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Flat Tyres & Breakdowns
You’re on a country lane, it’s dark and you get a flat tyre. Or your car breaks down, or maybe you’ve accidently run out of fuel. What do you do? Probably phone dad, but what if you get no answer or there’s no signal? Now I know this is boring
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Independent Driving
On a practical driving test there is section of about 20 minutes where you’ll be asked to follow a route, either by using a satnav (the examiner brings their own satnav with them), or following signs; e.g. ‘Please follow the signs for Hatfield’. Four in five tests use a satnav,
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