Driving lessons in Tolworth, Surbiton and Chessington
ELITE Driving School Automatic driving lessons Tolworth, Surbiton and Chessington.
There is a high demand for driving lessons in the Tolworth area due to the test centre being located in Douglas Road, just off of the Ewell Road. Areas covered on Tolworth test routes include Berrylands, Surbiton, Chessington, Esher, Claygate, Thames Ditton and New Malden. There is a vast mixture of road types and challenges that will be covered by your driving instructor throughout the course of your driving lessons, including busy town centres like Surbiton high street, to the high speed dual carriageways of the A3 and A309, to the rural country roads around Claygate.
Don’t worry if you are a beginner though, as there are many quiet nursery routes that are perfect for you to start your driving lessons on to master the basics before getting onto the more challenging roads, like Langley Avenue in Surbiton, and The Byeways in Berrylands.
Your progress throughout your driving lessons will be recorded on our free ELITE Driving School App, plus we’ll provide you with our free Theory Test Pro App to help you prepare for your theory test, as well as build your knowledge for your practical lessons.
We recommend taking at least one 2 hour lesson a week. 2 hour driving lessons allow for plenty of repetition to consolidate learning, as well as cover multiple different geographic areas and driving environments. This helps to accelerate learning, resulting in fewer lessons being needed overall, and being more cost effective.
ELITE Driving School have a simple price structure, with either a simple pay-as-you-go rate, or a discount when you buy blocks of 10 hours at a time. Also we don’t charge more for automatic driving lessons, nor do we charge more for evening and weekend lessons.
We are a well established driving school, with thousands of reviews from previously satisfied customers that have passed their driving test with us. We also have profiles of all of our instructors to help you find the perfect instructor to suit you.
So whether you’re looking to start your learning to drive journey, or just fine tune your skills before taking your driving test in and around the Chessington, Tolworth, and Surbiton areas then just send us an enquiry using the link below to get your first driving lesson booked in.
Tolworth, Surbiton and Chessington Driving Instructors
Automtic Driving Lessons in Tolworth with ELITE resulting in another successful driving test pass!
“Very good instructor. He is good at his job, very reliable and helps you with all you need in passing your test at Tolworth test cantre. He is committed to the success of his pupil and puts that first. I’m so glad for ELITE Driving school and happy that they have such a valuable instructor”
04 January 2025
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What to expect from your driving lessons
Number of driving lessons
We’re often asked how many driving lessons will be needed before passing the driving test. The DVSA state the average learner takes around 50 hours of professional lessons, plus 20 hours of private practice. In reality most pupils that learn with ELITE take far fewer hours than this. However, it is impossible to answer accurately how many hours are needed, as it varies hugely due to many influencing factors. Firstly, everyone learns at a different rate. Some individuals are naturally gifted with coordination and car controls, and others need more practice to perfect the required skills.
Learning in a manual or automatic
Then there is the consideration of whether you are learning to drive a manual or automatic car. More lessons may be needed in a manual, it all depends how quickly you develop clutch control. Although once you have mastered the basic controls to operate either vehicle type, the majority of learning hours are spent developing the skills needed to read the road, plan, anticipate the actions of other road users, and manage risks on the road. So whether to learn in a manual or automatic car is a personal choice, and at the moment it’s around a 50/50 split which one people are choosing.
Learning in different areas
The area in which you are learning to drive and taking your driving test could also affect the number of lessons you need. Learning to drive in more densely populated towns like Croydon and Morden will have different challenges compared to somewhere more rural like Redhill. It’s different again in somewhere like Crawley, due to the volume of large roundabouts and high speed dual carriageways. The simple fact is that you should take as many lessons as you need to become a safe and competent driver.
What’s involved
All ELITE instructors will discuss your learning style, objectives, and time frames, and between you work out the best structure for your lessons leading up to a test. You will then be test ready, and confident to drive anywhere after you’ve passed the driving test. We provide a free Theory Test Pro App to help you prepare for your theory test. Plus we provide a free Total Drive App to make it simple to track your driving lesson bookings, get reminder notifications, track learning progress, and payments. There is even a free parent App too.
