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2021 In Rear-View: What The Year Brought PassMeFast

2021 challenged us with more home-working, cancelled tests and disrupted driving lessons.  But throughout it all, PassMeFast reached for new heights as we helped a new generation of drivers get on the road. Here are some of the exciting things that happened for us (and you!) this year: Most of all, we want to say a HUGE thank you for making us smile with all your understanding, feedback and happy pass photos. Keep checking in with the blog to see...

Driving Test Pass Rates Revealed: How UK’s Learners Performed in Q2 2021/22

DVSA Pass Rates Revealed: July-September 2021

If you’re learning to drive (or simply just a sucker for stats), it’s the perfect day for a spot of light reading. Why? Because new driving test stats just dropped! Today we’ll learn the theory and practical driving test pass rates from July–September 2021. Buckled up? Let’s get going… The latest practical driving test figures The DVSA has revealed that 401,365 driving tests were taken between July and September 2021. This sounds like a mahoosive number and is the highest...

UK Driving Test: Show Me, Tell Me Questions — Everything You Need to Know

Show me, tell me questions. UK Driving Test

Many people become so preoccupied with the primary parts of the practical test—the independent driving and the manoeuvres—that they forget an equally important component: the ‘show me, tell me’ questions. While you can’t fail the practical test by answering a ‘show me’ or ‘tell me’ question incorrectly, it’s still important that you know them back to front, inside out. Your instructor is sure to go over these questions with you, but having a solid knowledge of them prior to this...

Helping a Young Person Learn to Drive? Here’s Everything You Need

One minute you’re teaching them to toddle and poof — next thing you know they’re begging you to teach them to drive. If you’ve got a young person tugging at your sleeve and eager to get on the road, you’re in the perfect place to find everything you need. Things might’ve changed from when you learned to drive, but passing is our game and fast is our name. So we’ll help you get your soon-to-be driver on the road quickly...

Our Pass Photo of the Week—Teen Mom UK’s Amber Butler!

Another week, another successful driving test! This time we’ll be telling you how Amber Butler, of Teen Mom UK fame, got her young family on the road. Getting Mom in a Motor Amber came to PassMeFast earlier this year because she’d bagged herself a practical test for October. But learning to drive after lockdown is difficult, and she was struggling to find an instructor. She’d already had over 30 hours of lessons in the past, so booked in for a...

Halloween 2021: UK’s Spookiest Road Trips Unmasked

Ghosts, ghouls, goblins and graveyards across the UK are getting ready to stir because it’s nearly Halloween. Spooky season is a bit dead without a ghost walk or a night of trick & treating, but we’re PassMeFast and we’re thriving when we’re driving. So we’ve done some gravedigging and found the 5 spookiest road trips in the UK. Scaredy-cats beware — we’re going ghost hunting! Britain’s Top 5 Ghost Hunting Road Trips Scotland: Glas-ghoul to Edinb-arghhh Scotland is Home of...

Our Pass Photo of the Week—Yung Filly!

This one’s been soooo hard to keep under wraps — Yung Filly has just passed with PassMeFast! Here’s our favourite YouTuber-slash-rapper’s pass story: Going from YouTube to U-Turns Filly came to us way back at the end of 2020 in the middle of lockdowns. But that didn’t put our Filly off — he doesn’t like to Take Time, so he booked a 20-hour PassMeFast course with theory and practical test. We discussed what he needed and started fast-tracking Filly to...

Our Pass Photo of the Week—Model & Vlogger Sian Lilly Garnett!

Fashion (turn to the left), fashion (turn to the right), oooooh fashion! This week we’ve got Bowie’s dream of a pass pic. Driving and fashion come together because Sian Lilly Garnett has just got her licence with PassMeFast! How Sian spotted us Sian is used to sashaying down the catwalk but decided it was time to get driving. Who better to call than PassMeFast? So, that’s exactly what she did. In fact, she called us the same day that she...

DVSA Driving Test Examiner Strike: Everything You Need To Know

LATEST UPDATE (12:10 18/10/2021) The DVSA test examiner strike originally scheduled for 11th–12th October was pushed back to 18th–19th October. Now the DVSA has announced the strikes are suspended indefinitely as discussions continue. Here’s the latest official statement from the DVSA: The Public and Commercial Service (PCS) has agreed to suspend industrial action while talks continue. This means there will be no industrial action on Monday 18 and Tuesday 19 October 2021 and action short of strike (work to rule)...

Our Pass Photo of the Week—Melissa from Manchester!

Look who’s back with a brand-new pass! Yep, it’s PassMeFast. All the credit should go to Melissa, though — she’s the one who passed both her theory and practical tests FIRST TIME. Here’s Melissa’s pass story: Bumpy beginnings If you’re learning to drive in post-pandemic Gret Britain, this will probably all sound very familiar. Melissa booked her 20-hour course around the end of 2020 — probably the worst ever time to learn to drive. But, needs must, so Melissa cracked...