Learn to drive in Worthing, Goring and Lancing with an ELITE Driving Instructor
Join the thousands of people that have learnt to drive with ELITE’s automatic and manual driving instructors in Worthing, Lancing, and Littlehampton areas of West Sussex.
ELITE Driving School has a well established team of driving instructors providing both manual and automatic driving lessons in the Worthing and Lancing areas, including covering Ferring, Goring-by-Sea, Clapham, Durrington, High Salvington, Patching, Tarring, Broadwater, Findon, Northend, Coombes, Sompting and Littlehampton.
We provide you with a free theory test training app, and a free app to track your lesson progress and bookings. We have both manual and automatic driving lessons across the Worthing area, and we charge the same price for both, and you can get a £30 discount by buying lessons in blocks of 10 hours
The south coast is great places to learn to drive. Not only is their buitiful scenery, but there are many varied driving environments to become familiar and competent with. It has everything from residential suburban and coastal streets, to urban city driving, to rural country roads. Plus there are plenty of roundabouts and faster moving dual carriageways. Developing skills on all of these types of roads will build your confidence, helping you to not only pass your driving test, but also become a safe driver beyond your driving test.
The Worthing driving test centre is located just off of the Strand Parade Roundabout, close to Durrington-on-Sea train station. Our instructors will provide you expert guidance and top tips on how to negotiate local areas safely to help you prepare for your driving test.
Driving lessons with ELITE are normally 2 hours long. Taking 2 hours at a time is proven to be most productive for pupils, as this allows for repetition of manoeuvres, the ability to experience multiple driving environments, especially in congested areas like Worthing town centre, and normally this accelerate learning, and results in fewer hours needed overall.
We provide our free Theory Test Pro App to all of our pupils to help with preparation for the theory test, plus you’ll get our free Total Drive App to help track your bookings and monitor your progress, as well other useful learning resources and tips to help you pass your practical driving test, and to be a safe driver beyond the test.
You can book your driving lessons in Worthing right now. Just click the link below, enter your postcode, select manual or automatic, and we’ll show you which instructors have availability.
Our prices are simple
We charge the same price for manual or automatic lessons, and you can pay as you go, or buy a discounted block of 10 hours. Simply search instructor availability, and book your first lesson.
Meet our team of Manual and automatic driving instructors we have providing driving lessons in Worthing and Lancing
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Before you start training, read reviews from instructors that have trained and qualified with ELITE. Our trainers have over 20 years experience of training, are DVSA ORDIT approved, and we have a qualification rate far exceeding the national average.
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.
