Friday, October 19, 2012

Get The Best Out of Your Lessons

When you practice for your driving test, it's important to get the best out of those lessons to avoid wasting your time. Here is an article I wrote about it.


If you've just started learning how to drive, then you're probably feeling nervous - especially if your driving test is coming up. The most important thing for you to do is feel confident in yourself. Nervousness and uncertainty will only lead to failure. Sure, everybody feels nervous, but what's important is that you don't let that nervousness get the best of you.

To help you feel more confident, here are some tips. Follow these tips and you should do well on your road test:

• Know your area. Practice driving all around the testing area. You don't have to know each and every street by heart, but you should still acquaint yourself with the area enough so that you feel confident driving there.

• The person with whom you practice driving should be an individual who is both responsible and helpful. If you're not taking a driving class, ask the most responsible person you know if they can help. This person should offer you constructive criticism and encouragement at the same time.

• Have you ever heard of commentary driving? This is a very helpful technique. You basically talk yourself through the driving. Say out loud the things you are currently doing and what you are preparing to do. You may feel silly talking to yourself like this, but you'll be surprised at how helpful it can be. Say out loud every single thing you do. This is also a great way to communicate with your instructor. He or she will get an idea of your strengths and weaknesses.

• Another way you can practice is to always observe what other drivers are doing. This is something EVERY good driver does - from student driver to older drivers with years of experience. That said, you don't want to watch other drivers so much that you end up losing focus of your own driving. Just watch them carefully enough to gauge what they are doing.

• Practice driving in a variety of conditions on different terrains. For example, practice driving on the intersection in the rain, on a two lane road on a sunny day, and vice versa. Just make sure you understand the safety procedures you must take when driving in poor weather conditions.

• If you're nervous about approaching an intersection, try your best to stay cal. Pay attention to how fast the other vehicles are going and maintain the same speed in order to merge. Put more focus on what's going on around you than on your own nervousness and insecurities.

• Print out a checklist of the things you will be tested on. You can find one online. Take it with you whenever you practice driving. Make sure you can do every single thing on the list before test day.

Know you have some ideas of how you can make your driving lessons more productive. The more practice you receive, the less nervous you will feel on test day.

In order to pass your driving exam, you need to learn all of the rules of the road. Make sure you get plenty of practice in addition to your studying. You will find plenty of driving secrets on the internet. These tools and resources will help you get the driving education you need in order to pass!

Getting your driver's license is not that hard. If you would like to pass your driving test without trying so hard, you should get yourself this amazing driving test guide.

I hope this article explains it well. If you have more questions, don't forget to check out my guide.

Nadav

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1 comment:

New York Drew said...

Some great tips here. I think you should also include "ask questions"... I would ask as many questions as possible