Course programme
The course programme is made up of 23 lessons split into 3 parts corresponding to whether the main focus of the lesson is on basic control skills, road skills or traffic skills.
| Part 1 Lessons - Basic Control Skills 1. Getting moving 2. Gears 3. Steering 4. Co-ordination 5. The emergency stop |
Part 2 Lessons - Road Skills 6. Hazard drill and basic junctions 7. Crossroads 8. Emerging from busier junctions 9. Roundabouts 10. Pedestrian crossings and Traffic signals |
| Set Manoeuvres M1: Straight line reversing M2: Reversing to the left M3: Reversing to the right M4: Bay parking M5: Turn in the road M6: Reverse parking |
Part 3 Lessons - Traffic Skills 11. Hazard perception and defensive driving 12. Dual Carriageways 13. Town and city centre driving 14. Progressive driving 15. Independant and Eco-safe driving MT. Mock driving test T. The Driving Test MD. Motorway driving |
Choosing a course path to follow
The way lessons are structured, together with a guide to the level of difficulty a particular lesson represents, is shown opposite. You start at the top and gradually work your way down. Normally if you have no experience of driving you start at lesson 1. You then have the choice of taking lesson 2 followed by lesson 3 or vice versa.
After lesson 4 you can take lessons 5, 6 and M1 in whichever order is most appropriate for you in your training area. Lessons 9 and 10 are shown in grey as a reminder that you might need to look at these lessons at this point in the programme if the practice areas for the other lessons at this level contain roundabouts, pedestrian crossings or traffic lights. Therefore you may need to look ahead to these lessons even though you will not fully complete them until much later.
If you want to you can even complete all the manoeuvre lessons before moving on to lessons 5 and 6 but only at a basic level (i.e. in a very quiet location with ideal road features). The path you choose to take will, to some degree, depend upon the practice area(s) at your disposal. If you are training with an LDC driving school your trainer will be able to give you the benefit of their experience in this regard.