You cannot start to learn to drive a car until your provisional driving licence has been accepted and is in your possession. Generally you won't be able to learn to drive until you are 17, but if you are in receipt of the higher rate of disability allowance you can start to learn how to drive when you reach your 16th birthday. You are allowed to apply for your licence up to 2 months before your licence is due to start. But you are not allowed to drive on the road until your licence has arrived and not until you have turned 17 (or 16 if that applies to you.) To apply you will need to fill in an application form, which you can get from most post offices - it is a D1 form.

When you are looking for an instructor it might be worth asking around friends and family first to see if they can suggest anyone. Whilst there are many very good instructors out there, like with everything, there will be ones who just want the money off you and don't give you what you need/want. If there aren't any that people can recommend then there will

be lots on Google. Type in "Paisley driving schools". You will probably want to know what car they use (manual or automatic), what length of lessons they do, when do they do them (evenings and weekends?)

Also find out the cost for a normal lesson and then do they do any student discount, discount for multiple bookings etc. Check how they charge for the test day (do they charge for 2 hours or however long you are out for, or are there special test fees?) Do they do any theory tuition? There will be some schools that you like the sound of more than others.

Book one lesson with one of them and see how it goes. Don't get talked

into block booking driving lessons with them to start with, whilst you do save in the long term paying for 10 lessons in one go - or whatever their offer is, if you decide you want to swap after a couple of lessons with them, you wont have saved anything! Some people will be fine with the first instructor they go with, and others won't. It is your money though,

and you are paying them, so if you aren't happy with them you can swap after as many or as few lessons as you want.

The Hazard perception test has been introduced in the driving theory test because new drivers are disproportionately involved in accidents, especially in the first months after passing a driving test. It has been proven that drivers who have taken hazard perception test training have much better hazard test skills.

Many learner drivers fail in hazard perception test, mainly because of lack of knowledge about the hazard test itself. If you understand the hazard perception test, how it works, how to score, what to look for etc, it's not at all difficult to score well in the hazard test.