The theory classes are held every Wednesday and are divided into 8 different occasions.
Theory 1 – Information
- The routines of the school
- The school’s education plan; theory – practice
- Expressions and ideas
- Drivers licenses and rules for driving practice
- Books and tests
- Teaching methods
- Study methods
+ Human nature
- The traffic and the environment
- Economical driving
- Emotional maturity – rules and moral responsibilities
- Becoming an experienced driver
- Ability to react
- Teamwork in traffic
- Peer pressure and personal strength
- Drugs and driving performance
- Traffic offences and sanctions
Theory 2 – The laws of nature and traffic rules
- Kinetic energy – a force to be reckoned with
- Reaction, braking and stopping distances
- The laws of gravity
- Seatbelts
- Children as passengers
- Signs and signals
- Positioning your car – the basics
- Traffic instructions
- Signal given by a police officer
- Defensive driving
- Duties to give way
- Traffic signs
- Road markings
- Road works
- No rules without exceptions
Theory 3 – Sharpen your senses, risk assessment, railways
- Looking ahead – or how we see
- Scanning – how the eye works
- Visual defects – visual acuity and visual field
- Unprotected road users- obligations towards pedestrians and cyclists
- Demands are tough
- Oncoming traffic
- Railway junctions
- Probability conditioning and learning by imitation
Garage lesson
- The basic elements
- the engine
- the transmissions system
- the brakes
- the tyres
- the steering system
- Towing
- Loading the car
- Driving with a trailer
- Inspection and registration
- Insurance
Theory 4 – Streetwise (Driving in city traffic)
- Positioning means planning
- One-way traffic
- Light signals
- Roundabouts
- Reserved lanes (bus lanes)
- Reversible lanes
- Cyclists’ rights
- Driving in line
- Changing lanes – passing
- Overtaking and passing
- Turning, stopping, parking
Theory 5 – Highways, country roads
- Speed limits
- Adapting your speed
- Speed-blindness
- Tunnel vision
- Turning onto a road
- Turning off a road
- Pulling up, turning, and driving on the shoulder
- Keeping your distance
- Overtaking
- where will we meet?
- how much time will I gain?
- how long will the overtaking distance be?
- the three phases of overtaking
- the overtaking rules
- Motorways and arterial roads
Theory 6 – Special conditions
- How well can we see at night?
- What happens when a driver grows tired?
- Driving at night
- Lights and the law
- Dipping your headlights: oncoming vehicles and overtaking
- Aquaplanning
- Driving on slippery roads
- Wild animals
- Accidents
Theory 7 – Enviroment