Intensive driving courses

Pass your test in 1 to 4 weeks

Choose from 10 to 40-hour intensive courses delivered over a few days to a few weeks. Manual and automatic tuition available with DVSA-approved instructors.

Glasgow Lanarkshire Edinburgh Aberdeen Central Scotland
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Tuition vehicle included
Theory test support
Test-route training
DVSA Approved Instructors

Course prices

Glasgow course pricing shown. Lanarkshire, Edinburgh and Aberdeen prices may vary slightly — get in touch for an exact quote.

7hrs
Glasgow Manual Course
£445
course price

7 hours over 3–5 days (2–3 hrs/day, comfort breaks as required)

Existing LDS pupils who failed within the past month, or full licence holders refreshing skills. Not suitable for foreign pupils with no UK ADI tuition.

  • Tuition vehicle included
  • DVSA-approved instructor
  • Pickup from home, work or college
  • Test-route training in your area
10hrs
Glasgow Manual Course
£605
course price

10 hours over 3–5 days (2–3 hrs/day, comfort breaks as required)

Pupils near test standard, recent failures (1–3 months), licence resits, or full licence holder refreshers. (Min. 30 hrs prior training)

  • Tuition vehicle included
  • DVSA-approved instructor
  • Pickup from home, work or college
  • Test-route training in your area
15hrs
Glasgow Manual Course
£813
course price

15 hours over 5 days (3 hrs/day, comfort breaks as required)

Students nearing test standard who need extra training before test, or those who failed within the past 6 months. (Min. 25 hrs prior)

  • Tuition vehicle included
  • DVSA-approved instructor
  • Pickup from home, work or college
  • Test-route training in your area
20hrs
Glasgow Manual Course
£1145
course price

20 hours over 5 days (4 hrs/day, includes 15-min break)

‘Nearly there’ students who have mastered car control basics, or those who failed within 9–12 months. (Min. 20 hrs prior)

  • Tuition vehicle included
  • DVSA-approved instructor
  • Pickup from home, work or college
  • Test-route training in your area
25hrs
Glasgow Manual Course
£1318
course price

25 hours over 5 days (5 hrs/day, includes 2 × 15-min breaks)

Reasonable car control but want to polish overall driving skills. (Min. 15 hrs prior)

  • Tuition vehicle included
  • DVSA-approved instructor
  • Pickup from home, work or college
  • Test-route training in your area
30hrs
Glasgow Manual Course
£1518
course price

30 hours, Mon–Fri/Sat (6 hrs/day, includes 2 × 15-min breaks)

Complete beginners or limited experience who need to pass FAST. (Min. 10 hrs prior)

  • Tuition vehicle included
  • DVSA-approved instructor
  • Pickup from home, work or college
  • Test-route training in your area
35hrs
Glasgow Manual Course
£1718
course price

35 hours over 10–14 days (2–3.5 hrs/day, comfort breaks as required)

Complete beginners, or pupils with limited experience wanting extra time before test. Also available as semi-intensive. (Min. 5 hrs prior)

  • Tuition vehicle included
  • DVSA-approved instructor
  • Pickup from home, work or college
  • Test-route training in your area
40hrs
Glasgow Manual Course
£1918
course price

40 hours over 10–14 days (4 hrs/day, includes 2 × 15-min breaks)

DVSA-recommended full beginner course. ‘Belt & braces’ approach for nervous students. Also available as semi-intensive.

  • Tuition vehicle included
  • DVSA-approved instructor
  • Pickup from home, work or college
  • Test-route training in your area
45hrs
Glasgow Manual Course
£2118
course price

45 hours over 10–14 days (4–5 hrs/day, includes 2 × 15-min breaks)

‘Bolt-on’ to the 40-hour course for very nervous pupils, those with poor coordination, or pupils aged 30+. Also available as semi-intensive.

  • Tuition vehicle included
  • DVSA-approved instructor
  • Pickup from home, work or college
  • Test-route training in your area
50hrs
Glasgow Manual Course
£2318
course price

50 hours over 10–14 days (5 hrs/day, includes 2 × 15-min breaks)

Extremely nervous pupils, those with poor coordination, or pupils aged 30+ who prefer to learn at a steadier pace. Also available as semi-intensive.

  • Tuition vehicle included
  • DVSA-approved instructor
  • Pickup from home, work or college
  • Test-route training in your area

How it works

A simple, structured route to your licence

  1. 1
    Free assessment chat
    Tell us your experience level and we'll recommend a course length — no obligation.
  2. 2
    Pick your dates
    Courses run Mon–Sat between 9am and 5pm. Pickup from home, work or college.
  3. 3
    Train on test routes
    Daily tuition with breaks. We'll prep you on the routes used by your local test centre.
  4. 4
    Pass your test
    Hit the road with confidence — and a full UK driving licence in your pocket.
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Intensive courses across Scotland

Local instructors who know every test route in your area.

Intensive driving courses in Glasgow
Glasgow
Greater Glasgow

Glasgow is our biggest patch and the city we know inside out. Three DVSA test centres, the M8 cutting straight through the middle, the Clyde Tunnel, the Kingston Bridge and a tangle of one-way systems through the centre — it's a city that punishes nervous drivers and rewards proper preparation. Our Glasgow instructors live and teach in the same postcodes you'll be tested on.

Intensive in Glasgow
Intensive driving courses in Hamilton
Hamilton
Lanarkshire

Hamilton is the spine of our Lanarkshire teaching. The town's own test centre, junction 6 of the M74 and the East Kilbride Expressway sit within minutes of each other, which means a Hamilton-based pupil can be drilling motorway slip joins, fast dual carriageways and tight 30mph estates inside a single lesson.

Intensive in Hamilton
Intensive driving courses in East Kilbride
East Kilbride
South Lanarkshire

East Kilbride is famous for one thing in driving-instructor circles: the roundabouts. Six lanes deep at Whitemoss, three-tier at Murray, blind-entry at Lindsayfield — the town is a roundabout exam disguised as a new town. Pass your test out of Hamilton and you'll have already cleared the worst of it.

Intensive in East Kilbride
Intensive driving courses in Motherwell
Motherwell
North Lanarkshire

Motherwell sits between two motorways and uses both. Lessons here mix the slow grind of the town centre one-way system with rapid junction work at Newhouse on the A8. Pupils often commute to Hamilton for the test itself — a short hop, and one we cover end-to-end.

Intensive in Motherwell
Intensive driving courses in Coatbridge
Coatbridge
North Lanarkshire

Coatbridge sits at the junction of the M8 and M73, which makes it a great training ground for slip-road work and long-distance dual-carriageway pacing. Pupils here generally sit at Baillieston, so lesson planning blends Coatbridge town driving with full familiarisation of the Baillieston test routes.

Intensive in Coatbridge
Intensive driving courses in Cumbernauld
Cumbernauld
North Lanarkshire

Cumbernauld is built on a road network of underpasses, slip roads and ring roads — almost no traditional town-centre grid. That makes lessons here unusually focused on lane-discipline and signage. Pupils sit at Bishopbriggs, so courses include the A80 corridor end-to-end.

Intensive in Cumbernauld
Intensive driving courses in Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Lothian

Edinburgh splits cleanly between Currie in the west and Musselburgh in the east — two test centres with very different road characters. Currie leans rural-edge and dual carriageway; Musselburgh leans coastal town and tight residential. We teach to whichever you'll actually sit.

Intensive in Edinburgh
Intensive driving courses in Aberdeen
Aberdeen
Aberdeen City

Aberdeen has two test centres separated by the city — Garthdee on the south-west and Cove on the south-east. Add the Aberdeen bypass (AWPR), oil-industry traffic on Wellington Road and the granite-canyon city centre, and you get a city that demands proper local instruction rather than generic learning.

Intensive in Aberdeen
Intensive driving courses in Falkirk
Falkirk
Central Scotland

Falkirk and Grangemouth sit at a junction of three motorways and a busy industrial dock road. Pupils here learn fast slip-road merging early because the geography demands it. The test centre at Grangemouth is compact and used by every local pupil.

Intensive in Falkirk
Intensive driving courses in Livingston
Livingston
West Lothian

Livingston is a planned town with its own test centre — and like Cumbernauld it's built on a network of ring roads, slip-style junctions and themed residential 'villages'. The A899 spine runs through the middle, the M8 sits a few minutes north, and the test routes leave the centre quickly into the surrounding road network.

Intensive in Livingston

Everything included

  • Tuition vehicle (manual or automatic)
  • DVSA-approved instructor (green badge)
  • Theory test support materials
  • Pickup from home, work or college
  • Test-route training in your area
  • Theory test support material
  • Same-day pass certificate
Mon–Sat, 9am to 5pm
Flexible scheduling around your other commitments.

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