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Record your private practice when you're learning to drive

Keep a record of the driving practice you do with family or friends when you're learning to drive a car so you can show your driving instructor.

From:
Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
Published
11 February 2020

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

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Record your private driving practice

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Record your private driving practice

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Use this form to record any private driving practice you do with family or friends.

It includes practising driving:

  • in the dark
  • on different types of road, like country roads or dual carriageways
  • in different weather conditions

You also need to practice how to plan and navigate a route.

This supports the progress you make during your driving lessons.

Check the rules about who you can practise with.

You must not drive on a motorway when you’re being supervised by someone who is not a fully-qualified approved driving instructor.

For advice about accompanying a learner driver, buy the Official DVSA Guide to Learning to Drive book.

There’s a different form for your driving instructor to record your progress in your driving lessons.

Published 11 February 2020

Part of Learn to drive a car: step by step

  1. Step 1 Check you're allowed to drive

    Most people can start learning to drive when they’re 17.

    1. Check what age you can drive
    2. Requirements for driving legally
    3. Driving eyesight rules

  2. Step 2 Get a provisional licence

    1. Apply for your first provisional driving licence £34 to £43

  3. Step 3 Driving lessons and practice

    You need a provisional driving licence to take lessons or practice.

    1. The Highway Code
    2. Taking driving lessons
    3. Find driving schools, lessons and instructors
    4. Practise vehicle safety questions

  4. and Prepare for your theory test

    1. Theory test revision and practice
    2. Take a practice theory test
    3. Theory and hazard perception test app

  5. Step 4 Book and manage your theory test

    You need a provisional driving licence to book your theory test.

    1. Book your theory test £23
    2. What to take to your test
    3. Change your theory test appointment
    4. Check your theory test appointment details
    5. Cancel your theory test

  6. Step 5 Book and manage your driving test

    You must pass your theory test before you can book your driving test.

    1. Book your driving test £62 to £75
    2. What to take to your test
    3. Change your driving test appointment
    4. Check your driving test appointment details
    5. Cancel your driving test

  7. Step 6 When you pass

    You can start driving as soon as you pass your driving test.

    You must have an insurance policy that allows you to drive without supervision.

    1. Find out about Pass Plus training courses