Theory test
Fifty questions and fourteen video clips, on a computer, for £23. People fail it by revising the wrong way. This is the method our learners use: three weeks, twenty minutes a day, the question bank and the clips rather than the Highway Code, and the test booked when the app says 90%.
TheoryTwo minutes
Fifty multiple-choice questions from a bank of about 700 (43 to pass) and fourteen hazard perception clips (44 of 75 to pass), on a computer at Newport Road, booked on GOV.UK for £23. Both halves on the same day, result on the spot.
TheoryThree minutes
Twenty minutes a day. Week one: the app's question bank by topic, every topic to 80%. Week two: mock tests until three in a row over 45. Week three: hazard clips every day and two full mocks. Book the test when the app says 90% and your instructor agrees.
TheoryThree minutes
Each clip has one developing hazard (one has two). You score five if you click as it starts developing, down to one as it gets closer, zero if you miss it or click in a pattern. Click once when you first see it, once more a second later, and never rhythmically: the software spots that and scores zero.
TheoryThree minutes
Stopping distances (learn the table), motorway rules you have never used, what the different crossings are called, documents and the law, and the first-aid questions. Twenty questions on these in the app cover most of what fails people.
TheoryTwo minutes
Take your provisional photocard (nothing else counts), arrive fifteen minutes early, no phone in the room. Flag questions you are unsure of and come back; there is time. The certificate number is what we need to book the practical, so photograph it.
TheoryTwo minutes
The test is available in Welsh and English, with voiceover in several languages, and with extra time or a reader if you have dyslexia or another reading difficulty: ask for it when you book, with a note from your school or a professional. Your instructor will help with the form.
The three-week plan
Two years from the pass. If you have not passed the practical by then you sit the theory again, so we do not book it until lessons have started and the practical is in sight.
Yes, or in English, and with a voiceover in several other languages. Choose when you book. Extra time or a reader for dyslexia or another reading difficulty is available with a note from a school or a professional.
You get a sheet showing which topics you lost marks on and can rebook after three working days. Most people who fail do so on hazard perception; do week three again, properly, and it is usually fine.
Only the scoring. Each clip has a developing hazard and a window of about five seconds; the earlier you click in that window the more you score, down to one. Click once as soon as you see something that might make you change speed or direction, once more a second later, and then leave it. Clicking constantly scores zero for the clip.
The controls on a quiet road, moving off and stopping, and enough driving to see how you take to it, with the instructor who covers your area. At the end you get a written plan and an honest estimate of the hours. Book with the form or ring the office, Monday to Saturday 8 to 7.