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4th January 2021

Hate Learning to Drive? Here’s How to Change Your Outlook!

Learning to drive can be fun, but there’s no doubt about it: it’s challenging. Sometimes we can get so caught up in the excitement of embarking on this big life step that we forget to acknowledge that it takes a lot of hard work and commitment to complete. Learner drivers may experience a bit of a rude awakening when the reality of this sinks in! Unfortunately, if you end up feeling like you hate learning to drive, it can really...

31st December 2020

PassMeFast: 2020 Year in Review

2020 is a year that many of us may be pleased to see the back of, with unprecedented disruption to everyday life now the norm. Nonetheless, we here at PassMeFast are taking a moment to look back on some of the positives of the year with our annual review. Join us as we show that not everything in 2020 was doom and gloom (really!)....

31st December 2020

December 2020 News Roundup

Welcome to the final news roundup of 2020! Before you get stuck into your New Year’s Eve celebrations, take a moment to look back on this month’s top stories. We’re featuring the latest quarterly pass rates from the DVSA, news of a potential new charge for drivers in London, an increase in BEV sales, and the year’s top personalised registration searches. We’ll round things off, as always, with a monthly Highway Code tip. Pass rates revealed for July to September...

30th December 2020

A Race Against Time, Top Marks and New Beginnings—It’s Our Top 5 Pass Photos From December!

Here’s a double dose of good news: 2020 is nearly at an end and we have 5 lovely pass photos to share from the month of December! The lockdown may have prevented us from enjoying our monthly countdown in November, but we’re back with one last hurrah before we wave goodbye to 2020. Like many people, PassMeFast was thrilled to hear that driving lessons and tests were back up and running in early December. Lots of our lovely learners hit...

29th December 2020

Our Top Customer Reviews in December

Season’s greetings PassMeFast readers! December is almost at a close and what a month it has been. PassMeFast HQ has been working around the clock to help learner drivers earn their full licence just in time for Christmas and the new year. (We’ve even just about managed to find the time to fit in a cheeky mince pie and glass of bubbly!) As you’d expect, we’ve got some great stories to share! We’re going to take a look at our...

28th December 2020

How-To Guide: Moving Off And Stopping

Season’s greetings PassMeFast readers! It’s that time of the month again. We’re back with the latest instalment in our How-To Guide series! Now that we’ve finished looking at the ways in which you can adjust your car to better suit your needs, we’re moving onto driving basics. We’re starting off with moving off and stopping, a fundamental skill that all drivers need to know like the back of their hand. In this guide, we’re going to walk you through all...

27th December 2020

Theory Test Topics Explained: Essential Documents

Hello, PassMeFast readers! Those of you preparing to take the theory test will be pleased to hear that we’re back with our next instalment in the Theory Test Topics Explained series. This time, we’re shining the spotlight on the third topic out of the fourteen used in the DVSA’s multiple-choice question bank: essential documents. We’ll explain exactly what this topic is, offer example questions and even give you some top revision resources!...

25th December 2020

Season’s Greetings from PassMeFast

On behalf of the PassMeFast team, I’d like to wish all of our readers a happy and peaceful Christmas. Wherever and however you’re spending the holidays, we hope that you’re able to take a well-earned break after the whirlwind year we’ve all had. Though 2020 may have been unprecedented in many ways, we’re sticking to tradition with this Christmas post. Today, we’re raising a glass to all of our learners—those who passed with us this year, and those who are...

23rd December 2020

My Learner Driver Experience: Jack

It’s time for another instalment of My Learner Driver Experience, the series that gives you a personal insight into exactly how members of the PassMeFast team earned their driving licences. This month it’s the turn of Booking Agent, Jack. He’s been a part of the team since summer 2019 and has since then guided hundreds of learners to driving test success. Interestingly, he did most of this work while yet to pass the test himself. All that changed this month,...

21st December 2020

Meet an Instructor: Louise

Greetings, PassMeFast readers! We’re back once more with another instalment in our Meet an ADI series! If you’re new here, this series aims to shine a spotlight on PassMeFast’s hardworking driving instructors, giving you a chance to get to know them better. In previous months, we’ve had a look at instructors from Greater Manchester, Yorkshire and Merseyside. This month, we’re heading over to Staffordshire to meet local ADI Louise! Louise joined our fleet in 2019 and has had over 13...