How to pass your license the first time

Legal basis

Currently, it is impossible to pass the driving test without studying at the appropriate institution. A draft law giving a motorist the right to take a theoretical exam externally actually existed - but was conveniently postponed indefinitely. And, of course, no one canceled practical driving - it was studied and will continue to be studied exclusively in full-time.

Currently, the connection between studying at a driving school and passing the theory is clearly defined in Article 26, paragraph 1 of Federal Law No. 196-FZ “On Road Safety” with the latest amendments dated December 30, 2021. In accordance with this paragraph, obtaining a driver’s license is possible if the citizen meets the following requirements:

• reaching the established age - from 16 to 21 years, depending on the category;
• satisfactory state of health, allowing you to drive a vehicle without risk to yourself and others - confirmed by the issuance of a medical certificate;
• completing a vocational training course.

The last thing is the most important: if the future driver has not been assigned to any accredited driving school, he will not be given the opportunity to take a theoretical exam, no matter how well the rules of the road have been studied.

On the other hand, the second paragraph of the same paragraph suggests the availability of a variety of motorist training programs; about their types - in the next section.

How to quickly get a category B license

Answers to questions from driving school students - find out the latest information and nuances related to training and obtaining a license.
Future students often call our driving school and ask how to quickly get a license. There are some tips on how to quickly get a category “B” license in Moscow. A standard course of study takes 3 months, but as a rule in Moscow this period may increase due to a combination of various factors. Everyone basically works according to a standard schedule from 9-00 to 18-00, and rests on weekends, Saturday and Sunday. This is why the most popular time for driving instructors is evenings on weekdays and weekends. You should not be surprised that by choosing this time, you will stretch your training for a longer period than planned. In any case, to speed up the process of completing practical classes, you will have to take time off, not necessarily for the whole day, you can take 3-4 hours off before the end of the working day or before lunch, and come to your favorite instructor for a lesson in the morning or afternoon, he will be very happy and you will complete your practical driving lessons faster. There is one more piece of advice to quickly unlearn your license: you can take double driving lessons on the days when you can attend them. Double driving lessons can take place both on the site and around the city; long-term training often benefits the student, because in any case, in real life he will have to drive a car for a long time, especially considering the traffic on the roads of Moscow.

There is one more important tip on how to quickly get a category “B” license. Don't delay payment. By paying for the entire training course at a driving school, you thereby get the opportunity to attend theory and practice in parallel, this significantly speeds up the learning process. By studying theory and practice in parallel, you can complete the full course in three months and pass the exams at a driving school and take the exam at the traffic police. To meet the deadline, you need to come to practical classes at least 2-3 times a week, with one or two classes being double classes. Do not miss classes, this will help you fully gain the entire volume of knowledge, you will be as prepared as possible and confident in your abilities in the exams. Do not practice driving on your own; it is prohibited by law and may result in serious violations, including suspension from training. Eliminate offers from friends and relatives to work out with you in a personal car somewhere in the courtyards or on an abandoned site, outside the city, in a village or holiday village, etc.

If you do everything on time and apply the tips given above, you can successfully quickly obtain a license in Moscow. In just three months you will take the traffic police exams and pass them with confidence.

Do not believe the advertising that lures you, promising that you will receive a license in 2 months, this is not possible, in addition to the training period, there are many legislative points that strictly determine the timing and rules of training, as well as obtaining a driver’s license. There are accelerated training programs that last 1.5-2 months, but for this you must already have one of the categories of rights, for example “A” or “C”. If you do not have a driver’s license with a different category, then you cannot study under the accelerated program. If you have a license of category “B” or “C”, you can quickly unlearn the license of category “A” and get a license. It is possible to quickly get a motorcycle license in Moscow, come to the ASB driving school on Tverskaya.

Training Options

A citizen intending to obtain a driver's license can currently study at a driving school in the following forms:

1. Full-time. The most common one, which involves students regularly attending classes, passing tests and internal, and then state exams.
2. Online. The person stays at home and participates in online seminars (webinars), where the teacher introduces students to new material and also, if provided for by school regulations, answers questions. This option, due to the labor intensity for instructors, is less common than others, but in terms of efficiency it is not inferior to the first, and sometimes even surpasses it.
3. Remote. A person who signs up for courses gets access to a personal account, where he views recordings of lectures; Testing of mastery of the material is carried out in the form of online tests.

The last two methods (usually both of them are called remote) have a number of advantages:

• the student does not need to waste energy and time getting to the next lesson at the driving school, and then go home;
• the future car enthusiast takes the course in a calm and comfortable environment, which allows him to better comprehend the material;
• Training aids—books, brochures, regulations, and interactive products—are provided electronically and their cost is usually included in the tuition fee.

The main disadvantage of distance education is the lack of feedback. Even webinars in the vast majority of cases represent an instructor’s monologue, and “from the spot”, as is done in the classroom, is impossible in such conditions.

How to pass the driving test without a driving school

To answer the question - how to pass the driving test without a driving school, you need to understand what the person interested in has in mind. There are two options for considering this issue:

1. People are wondering whether it is possible to take driving exams without attending a driving school, the answer to this is a clear answer - no!

2. People are interested in how to pass the driving test without a driving school after they have completed their studies there. Next we will answer by examining the second option.

Let us explain once again that it will not be possible to pass the driving test without a driving school, that is, without completing a full course of study there; this is impossible at the legislative level. Only those citizens who have completed a full course of training at a driving school, passed the exams required by the training and received a certificate of completion of a driving school are allowed to take exams at the traffic police. In order to take the driving test without a driving school, you need to pick up a certificate of completion and a medical certificate. Once you have the documents in your hands, you must submit them to the traffic police. There are two ways to submit documents to the traffic police:

1. Through the State Services portal;
2. Personally visiting the traffic police department;

By registering through the State Services portal, you will save yourself a lot of time; this method of submitting documents for the exam at the traffic police is very simple and convenient. For your convenience, the ASB driving school team has prepared an article STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS for registering for the traffic police exam through the State Services portal. We do not recommend you to visit in person, because this procedure will take you a lot of time and this method is very inconvenient, there is a possibility that this will not end with one visit, because the number of coupons for a personal visit is limited, at the time of your visit they may no longer available. The first visitors, intending to receive the coveted coupon for the service at any cost, come to the traffic police building and line up at 5:30/6:00 in the morning, some arrive at 5:00. When an institution opens, the queue is a kilometer long, and sometimes more. In some traffic police stations in Moscow, visitors, one at a time, begin to be allowed into the building to receive a ticket, much earlier than the opening of the traffic police station. This is an order from the heads of these traffic police departments, which indicates their sensitive attitude towards visitors; employees start their work an hour earlier every day and finish the same, because the process of taking the practical exam does not stop until the last appointed applicant.

At the moment, not all traffic police are fully equipped with cars equipped for passing exams, so some traffic police in Moscow may refuse to accept documents and ask you to find a driving school that will provide you with a car for the test. This is especially true for self-testing after training in the categories “Automatic”, “C”, “D”, “EcS”, “EkV”, “EkD”. In fact, taking driving license exams without a driving school is not a successful idea and is very expensive. Firstly, you need to submit documents yourself, in some cases, find your own car (vehicle) to take the exam; Secondly, all theory and practice exams will be divided into different days, and the gap between them can be very large, because there are many people who want to take it on their own, you end up in a priority order, in which sometimes the earliest time to register is only after 2 -3 weeks after your application. Getting involved in the process of passing a license without a driving school is also uncomfortable because you don’t know all the procedures and stages of passing the exam, you don’t know who will call you and where on the site, at what time this or that stage of practice will begin, there is no representative of the driving school who will supervises you and can answer any of your questions. Exams in the traffic police are an exciting and very difficult process, without advice and support, clear timing, understanding of the order and form of the passing processes, it is very difficult to navigate. When taking your license without a driving school, you worry a lot, are nervous, are constantly waiting without any specifics, all this has a detrimental effect on the overall exam process, naturally, in a state of stress, you get negative results.

We see different examples of students, even when they come to retrain from other driving schools, so we are not surprised at anything. For those who still do not have a good relationship with the school, we advise you to join another driving school, which can be recommended by friends or work colleagues who have had a positive experience of successfully completing the traffic police exams. In the most difficult situation for you, when you decide to take the driving test without any driving school, we have prepared step-by-step instructions and some practical tips for you.

If you have collected your documents and intend to take the driving test without a driving school, pay attention to a few points:

1. Check your medical certificate; it must be valid both at the time of submitting documents for the exam, during the process of passing them, and at the time of issuing a driver’s license. If the medical certificate was issued to you in a region other than the one where you intend to take the exams, you must have a certificate confirming its issuance with the seal of the medical center and the signature of its authorized representative.
2. If you submit documents for exams at the traffic police in a city other than the one where you studied at the driving school, you must have a certificate confirming completion of training with the seal of the driving school and the signature of the head.
3. If you are submitting documents to the traffic police not in the same city where you were trained, and you do not have a confirmation certificate from a driving school or medical center, be sure to ask the inspector who accepted your documents for the numbers of outgoing requests for confirmation. Having the numbers of outgoing requests, it is easier to find out at the driving school and medical center whether these specific requests came to them and whether they answered them or not.
4. Do not take additional driving lessons before passing the theory. As a rule, the interval between passing the theory and the first attempt at practice is at least 10 days, during which time you will have time to practice. If you fail to pass the theory, according to the regulations, you will be re-tested no earlier than 7 days later, and there is a possibility that you will not pass again. In this case, you will have to take even more classes. As they say, “A good spoon for dinner,” practical driving lessons are more beneficial when they take place on the eve of the practical exam at the traffic police.
5. Do not take practical classes along the traffic police route; as a rule, they are much more expensive than regular practical classes, but they are of exactly the same use as regular ones. Each traffic police station has several examination routes, on average from 3 to 5, they intersect and have additional road sections for traffic. The proctor is allowed to conduct the exam in all these areas, so it will always be an impromptu exam for which you will not prepare thoroughly and clearly. The examiner’s different tasks will always be in different places on these routes, and you shouldn’t hope that you just rode there a few times and this will help you a lot. It is better for this money to take two regular, additional driving lessons and practice more turns and U-turns at intersections, starting to move and stopping.
6. When passing your license without a driving school, take additional lessons from the same instructor; many instructors like to retrain students, confidently believing that their methodology and system is the best and ideal, and all other instructors teach the wrong thing. If you come across just such a person, it is better to be wary of his constant advice to correct something in your driving style. Of course, there will be some constructiveness in his words, but if this is accompanied by every action you take, this should alert you. This is especially true for the position of the hands on the steering wheel; many, in the process of training and gaining experience, get used to a non-standard position, and this is completely normal if the driving instructor does not understand this, and knowing that you have completed the full course, begins to retrain you in this too , this is a clear indicator that you should try another mentor.
7. Do not clarify information that is important to you from the students who are taking the exam at the same time as you, and do not listen to their stories, we respect everyone, but very often what happens is that students think that they know everything and begin to broadcast it to others, assuring them that they are right, etc. d. They often give useless advice and share unreliable information, which will disorient you even more.
8. Be patient and vigilant, do everything on time and believe in your success. You will definitely succeed!

Transition to distance learning

To start studying at a driving school that offers a theoretical course on a remote basis, you must:

1. Submit an application for enrollment indicating the form of study.
2. Conclude a standard service agreement with the school.
3. Pay for the courses, in part or in full, and submit the receipt to the institution.
4. Receive a login and password to enter your personal account, where lectures and available materials will be available, and log in.

Now the future owner of the rights can only study diligently, listen and view the material and take intermediate tests - depending on the policy of the institution, this is done either via the Internet, or during a personal visit.

And, of course, the student will have to undergo full practical training—driving itself—at the driving school’s circuit. These lessons are usually paid separately; less often - included in the total cost of courses.

Preparation for exams

So, it will not be possible to get the opportunity to pass driving theory and practice without being “attached” to a driving school; the car enthusiast will have to attend the exams and pass them to a satisfactory level. Based on the test results, he will receive a certificate - he will need to submit it to the traffic police in order to proceed to the state exam.

In addition to the certificate, you will need to bring to the traffic police:

• passport - domestic or foreign;
• Application for taking the exam - you can fill it out on the spot;
• a certificate from a medical institution about your state of health - it has a limited validity period, and therefore should not be delayed in obtaining it;
• a receipt indicating payment of the state duty in the prescribed amount.

You won’t be able to just come and take the exam at the traffic police; The future holder of the certificate should register in advance. This can be done in two ways: by personally visiting “your” traffic police department or via the Internet.

The second option is preferable for a number of reasons:

1. The motorist will not have to get to the State Traffic Inspectorate and waste time waiting for an appointment.
2. You can choose any convenient time - the exam schedule is publicly available.
3. A driver who cannot find suitable appointment hours has the right to sign up for an exam at another department.
4. The state duty can also be paid online - and in this case the future motorist will save 30% of the cost.

Registration for the traffic police exam is carried out on the State Services portal; To gain access to the option, you will need to register, indicating your real first and last name, cell phone number and passport information.

Another advantage of online registration is the lack of bias. Very often, there are friendly relations between driving school instructors and traffic police inspectors - which means that a student who “does not please” the teacher runs the risk of not passing the state exam the first time. By signing up online for any department of the State Traffic Inspectorate that interests you, the driver can count on the most accurate assessment of his skills.

Is it possible to take an external exam today?

If before changes in legislation that came into force in 2013, driver candidates who had undergone training on their own were allowed to take exams at the State Traffic Inspectorate, now this is no longer possible. Experts explain this ban by the high accident rate on the roads and the heavy load on modern highways.

This is a reasonable decision, because the instructors at the driving school are experienced teachers and drivers, and are always ready to focus the student’s attention on every important point. It is impossible to obtain a traffic police license without attending a driving school, but if you wish, you can undergo training in somewhat unusual ways for many, the legal status of which is completely legal

It is impossible to obtain a traffic police license without attending a driving school, but if you wish, you can undergo training in somewhat unusual ways for many, the legal status of which is completely legal.

Only those potential road users who want to obtain an “AI” category tractor driver’s license can take advantage of the opportunity for self-training. Gostekhnadzor still allows candidates for ATV drivers to train without visiting an educational institution and pass the exam externally.

Exam and retake

To begin passing the tests, it is enough to appear at the appropriate unit at the appointed time and with a complete package of documents. Exams for motorists who have chosen the distance learning option are held in exactly the same way as for those who have acquired driving skills in a regular form.

The most unpleasant moment is the uncertainty with the training car. A driver undergoing practical tests at the traffic police without the support of a driving school can count on three ways of development of events:

• the department has its own training cars - this is the best option, but there is still a danger of getting confused if the make of the car is different from the one “mastered” at school;
• The traffic police practice is to “rent” training vehicles or “add” such drivers into the general flow - of course, for a fee;
• There is no training car and the inspector is not going to order one - which means the driver will have to take care of the rental on his own.

The latter is extremely rare, but it still happens; the future owner of the license should call in advance or personally appear at the selected department of the State Traffic Inspectorate and clarify the issue with the training car.

If the exam is successfully passed, great; The driver just has to get his license within the prescribed period and enjoy life. If not, you will have to sign up for a retake. This can be done no earlier than a week after the failed attempt; The application form at Gosuslugi is no different from the initial one, and the driver, as before, can choose any unit within his reach to undergo testing.

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