Once you have passed your theory test and your instructor feels you are ready to take your driving test you can book your test online, your test can be taken in your instructors car from a driving school in Cardiff or your own car if you prefer and you can have someone with you and the examiner when you take your test such as your instructor, a friend or a relative.

The driving test includes an eyesight check, if you fail this you will not be able to continue on with your test, the check requires you to read a number plate that either 20.5 meters for an old style number plate and 20 meters for the new style. You have 3 chances to read the number plate correctly if the examiner is satisfied you don’t meet the required eyesight standard the examiner will fail you. When you start at a driving school in Bury St Edmunds or wherever you live your instructor will check your eyesight to make sure you can read at the required distance.

After you pass they eyesight part of the test you will then be asked two vehicle safety questions, these are basic safety checks that a driver should carry out to ensure the vehicle is safe for use which will be one ’show me’ and one ‘tell me’. If one or both questions are answered incorrectly it will result in one driving fault being recorded.

Your examiner will now examine you on your general driving and on two reversing exercises these will be chosen from reversing around a corner, turn in the road and reverse parking all of which your instructor will have taken you through in your lessons.