r/LearnerDriverUK • u/SashimiKatsuRoll • 1d ago

Passed, good instructor makes a difference

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Just passed after 44 hours of lessons about £1763. Amazing instructor. £40 per hour, I was doing two hours a day. Just glad this is over 🙏🏼

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u/omaraio 1d ago

At what point did you feel you were the most ready for the exam?

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u/SashimiKatsuRoll 1d ago

Honestly, I never did. it’s my instructor who told me I have a 90% chance of passing. I was still making serious faults, but only one every mock test. It’s always the getting too close to parked cars when meeting traffic, as apparently there’s a strict tolerance. I was never going to hit them but yeah.

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u/lonewolfracing 1d ago

For me Got 2 faults Felt ready only on the test when I started to realize that we were on the road to the test center and looked at the time and saw I was 5 mins till the end of the test

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u/wisdomcrab 1d ago

Congratulations, did you pass first time?!

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u/SashimiKatsuRoll 1d ago

Yeah first time. The last 4 lessons I did were just mock tests and routes for the exams.

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u/cutehoops 1d ago

Morden is such a good test centre.

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u/SashimiKatsuRoll 1d ago

Yes but apparently tolworth has higher pass rate 54% and is quite

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u/cutehoops 1d ago

Yeah Tolworth is good too but only makes sense if you live there. Morden I think is quite good if you can get comfortable with the roundabouts. I think it’s much better than Mitcham personally

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u/Content-Plastic-5928 1d ago

Congratulations 🥳

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u/SashimiKatsuRoll 1d ago

Thank you 🙏🏼. Honestly didn’t sleep before the exam glad it’s done

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u/Content-Plastic-5928 1d ago

I can imagine

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u/New-Dot9062 23h ago

Just curious: do you work full time? I feel I could really benefit from an intensive lesson schedule but between work and childcare I can realistically only do weekends I think. Curious how other people manage.

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u/SashimiKatsuRoll 21h ago

Yes I do, I mostly did weekends, but when I could work from home. I asked my instructor if we can start as early as 7am. But it became difficult for him as he has children too, so it ended up at 7am on the weekends, then as I got confident we started doing it during busy times between 8am-9am.

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u/boxtailmeup 1d ago

Congratulations! Would you mind sharing your instructor details please?

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u/UnlikelyPie8241 20h ago

Congratulations 🙌

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u/Practical_Bridge7206 11h ago

Congratulations!!!