Learning To Drive Syllabus
If you are considering learning to drive or still quite new to it, the following may be of interest to you.
All qualified driving instructors are trained with a view to being able to pass on their skills to their pupils and as with most things, there is a fairly standard procedure to enable this. It is called the Driving Syllabus.
The Driving Syllabus is a collection, a bit like an itinerary, of the processes you are required to master in order to make the transition from being a learner driver to that of a competent, fully qualified one.
A fairly typical Driving Syllabus is a follows:-
- Cockpit Checks
- Controls & Instruments
- Moving Off
- Moving Off On A Hill
- Stopping
- Safe Positioning
- Mirrors – Vision & Use
- Signals – Use Of
- Anticipation & Planning
- Use Of Speed
- Meeting Other Traffic
- Junctions
- Roundabouts
- Pedestrian Crossings
- Dual Carriageways
- Turn In The Road
- Reversing To The Left
- Bay Parking
- Parallel Parking
- Emergency Stops
Elsewhere on this site I will provide an explanation for each part of the driving syllabus.
It is important to realise that you need to master all of the Driving Syllabus components.