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Tuning up for Drivers

Prepare for your Class 7 (novice) road test or brush up on your driving skills with Tuning Up for Drivers.

Tuning up for Drivers is a hands-on guide for new drivers and their supervisors in the learning (L) stage of the graduated licensing program. It guides you through your driving practice sessions, with helpful colour illustrations of key driving tips and manoeuvres.

How Tuning up for Drivers can help

As you work through Tuning Up for Drivers, also refer to B.C.'s safe driving guide, learn to drive smart. Together, they will help you become a skilful, safe driver.

Improve your driving skills, session by session

Tuning up for Drivers contains essential driving skills in 20 separate units; progress through a unit each time you go out for a drive. Start by practicing basic driving skills and work your way up to more complex ones. Study Tuning Up for Drivers at home, and take it on the road for your driving practice sessions.

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Practice session Topic (PDF)
Intro Using Tuning Up
Session 1 Pre-Trip Check; Knowing Your Controls
Session 2 Road Vision; Getting Going
Session 3 See-Think-Do; Backing Up
Session 4 Driving Straight Through; Turning Right
Session 5 Smart Brake and Horn Use; Turning Right
Session 6 Self-Check; Practising What you Have Learned
Session 7 Alcohol, Drugs and Driving; Driving on Hills and Curves
Session 8 Saying No; Stall Parking
Session 9 Resisting Media Messages; Two- and Three-Point Turns
Session 10 New Driver Overconfidence; Parallel Parking
Session 11 Your Personal Driver Profile; Mini-Test
Session 12 Sharing the Road; Lanes and Intersections
Session 13 Communicating; Changing Lanes Turning Right in Traffic
Session 14 Hazard Perception; Turning Left in Traffic
Session 15 Road Rage; Entering and Leaving Traffic
Session 16 Choosing a Safe Speed; Practising in Moderate Traffic
Session 17 Times and Space; Entering and Leaving the Highway/Freeway
Session 18 Keeping Alert; Passing
Session 19 Driver Personality; Becoming a Skilled Highway/Freeway Driver
Session 20 Driving Guidelines; Preparing for the Road Test

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