Are you worried about the complicated flow of the entire process after enrolling at a driving school, and the deadlines and periods that must be adhered to in that flow? By understanding the entire process explained here, you will be able to understand not only the process leading up to graduation, but also the overall period and deadlines for each part. In addition, we will also tell you about the written exam preparation and strategies for those who are worried about not being able to pass the written exam during the entire process from enrolling at a driving school to graduating. . Once you have finished reading, you will no longer have to worry about your Driving School life. Campus life is a little different from high school or university, so please make it a wonderful memory that will last a lifetime.

Flow from application to Final Driving Test and license acquisition

1. Apply to driving school
2. Enrollment procedures (orientation)
3. aptitude test
4. 1st stage
5. Driving Test
6. Karimenkyo Written Test exam
7. 2nd stage
8. Final Driving Test

   We will proceed in this manner.
   The above is the flow at the driving school, and then the flow until you get your license is as follows.

9. License center's main license exam
10. Get your license

3. What is the aptitude test?

Aptitude tests include a visual acuity test, color discrimination ability, hearing test, motor ability test, and a driving aptitude test conducted in the form of a questionnaire. For example, for a regular driver's license, a visual acuity test of 0.7 or higher in both eyes and 0.3 or higher in one eye is required. Even if the visual acuity in one eye is less than 0.3, it is OK with the naked eye as long as the visual acuity in the other eye is 0.7 or higher and the visual field is 150 degrees or more left and right. Please note that if your vision does not meet this requirement, you will be required to use glasses or contacts when driving.

What is Driving Test and Final Driving Test?

Driving Test is held on the premises of a driving school, and is a skill test to check whether the driver has acquired basic driving skills.
In addition, Final Driving Test is the last skill test that is taken when students graduate from a driving school.
These items will be evaluated by the driving school examiner. Out of 100 points, 70 points or more is the pass/fail line. In order to ensure the fairness and fairness of the exam, the exam is conducted with multiple candidates or with a third party on board. Even just one big mistake can lead to cancellation, so please be careful until the end and don't let your guard down.

What are provisional licenses and permanent licenses?

Provisional license is an abbreviation for provisional driving license. It is also sometimes called a provisional license. A driver's license is required for the second stage of on-road driving practice. Also, the driver's license that you ultimately aim to obtain is called a hon license or hon license.

How long does it take on average to obtain a driver's license?

To obtain a driver's license, you must clear each step in step 10 above, but in general, the average period for obtaining a license is 2 to 3 months for students attending school.

What is the shortest acquisition period?

However, if you want to obtain it in the shortest possible time, you can complete the period up to Final Driving Test (8. Is possible. Please note that this number of days varies slightly depending on the prefecture and each driving school.

What is the maximum acquisition period?

The maximum training period is 9 months. The deadline Final Driving Test is three months from the day you complete Driving Lessons and academic training of the entire course, so you can stay at Driving School for a maximum of one year. However, in this case, the minimum condition is that Driver's License has an expiration date until Final Driving Test. Additionally, the graduation certificate issued by the driving school is valid for one year.

Training schedule

In the 1st stage, you can conduct skill training for up to 2 hours a day, and in the 2nd stage, you can conduct Driving Lessons for up to 3 hours a day. If you can make Driving Lessons reservations for one day in a row, things will go smoothly, so please be careful when choosing a training reservation plan when applying.

Attendance style

• Driving Lessons is individual guidance
  Driving Lessons is generally conducted through one-on-one individual instruction. Each time Driving Lessons is completed, the trainee's weak points are taken over, and the training is carried out with the trainee based on the medical record. Therefore, you can resolve your doubts on the spot without worrying about other students seeing you. In addition, you can rest assured that the instructor will understand the level of the students and will flexibly adjust the allocation according to their strengths and weaknesses.
• Academic lessons are group instruction
  On the other hand, the subject lessons are group lessons, and each session is 50 minutes long, and about 10 minutes of the lesson begins with video learning. As a result, you may suddenly feel sleepy or find it difficult to maintain motivation. Also, in the case of group lessons, if there are any unclear points, it may be difficult to ask questions or resolve them on the spot.

What do you do in stage 1?

The academic training is for 10 hours, and the content is all about laws and regulations, but we also learn a lot about pedestrian protection and driving etiquette. Driving Lessons will be conducted for 12 hours AT/15 hours MT to learn basic driving skills. All lessons are limited to driving within the course, and the training vehicle is equipped with an auxiliary brake, so if there is any danger, the instructor next to you will provide assistance, so accidents and injuries are highly unlikely. In the second half of the first stage, you will have time to practice driving at your own discretion without having an instructor next to you during radio lessons.

After completing all the lessons in the first stage, take Driving Test (pass with a score of 70 or higher out of 100 for the skill test) and Karimenkyo Written Test Examination (pass with a score of 45 or higher out of 50) and pass both. If so, a provisional driving Driver's License will be issued.

What will happen in the second stage?

The academic training is for 16 hours and covers knowledge for safe driving and first aid.
Driving Lessons is held in the 19th period, and training is conducted on the road (including high-speed training), but some of the training uses in-house courses and simulators, such as sudden braking, driving under bad conditions, and dangerous situations. There is a lot of content that allows students to better understand the safe driving knowledge they learn in class by experiencing danger safely, such as risk prediction learning.
After completing all the lessons in the second stage, you will receive a graduation certificate after completing Final Driving Test (skill exam must be passed with a score of 70 or higher out of 100).

the last end

After that, take the main license exam (pass with a score of 90 or higher out of 100) at the driver's license center, and if you pass, Driver's License will be issued on the same day.

The above is the general flow from enrollment to graduation at the driving school. There are some important deadlines and periods that occur after you start training, such as when you are unable to adjust your schedule as planned and the training schedule is significantly delayed. If you are unable to proceed to the next step within this deadline, you will have to go through the process of re-training, etc., which will greatly delay your graduation from the driving school and obtaining your license, so please be careful. Driving school staff and instructors will check it for you, but if you're worried, you can take a photo and remind yourself.

5 deadlines to keep in mind

1. Expiration date of training: 9 months
   You must complete the entire course of Driving Lessons and academic training within nine months from the start of training.
2. Validity period of Karimenkyo Written Test examination: 3 months
   After passing Driving Test skill exam, you must pass the written Karimenkyo Written Test exam within three months. If more than 3 months have passed, you will have to take the skill exam Driving Test again.
3. Validity period of provisional driving Driver's License: 6 months
   6 months after passing Driving Test, passing the provisional license theory test, and receiving Driver's License. If your provisional driver's Driver's License expires, you will not be able to take Final Driving Test.
4. Validity period of Final Driving Test: 3 months
   Students must pass Final Driving Test within three months of completing Driving Lessons and academic training of the entire course. Please note that even if there is still a training deadline, it will become invalid once it has passed.
5. Validity of graduation certificate: 1 year
   Please be aware that if you do not pass within this one-year deadline, you will have to start over from the beginning.

The biggest checkpoint is the written exam

Now, next is the difficult enemy in the series of events that throws off the original plan: the preparation for the written exams. This is cited as a stumbling block for many people when obtaining a license. As mentioned earlier, there will be Karimenkyo Written Test exam at the end of the first stage (on-site training) and a regular license exam at the exam center before the issuance of the driver's Driver's License.

90% is a win/loss line

The number of questions is 50 for the provisional exam and 100 for the regular exam, and a 90% or higher correct answer rate is the winning/losing line for both. A passing score is 45 or more questions for the provisional license and 90 or more questions for the main license. Don't be put off by true/false true/false questions.

Pass rates vary by prefecture and driving school.

In fact, the content of this written exam is different for each prefecture across the country, and there are multiple question formats. Therefore, the pass rate varies greatly depending on the prefecture and driving school.
Also, if you are a foreign national and have difficulty reading and understanding Japanese, some prefectures allow you to take the exam in another language, so why not consider that?

Here I will tell you the points that everyone stumbles on.

The scope of questions is wide-ranging

The scope of questions for Karimenkyo Written Test exam is 500 minutes of academic training in the first stage (10 periods x 50 minutes). In addition, for the main liberal arts exam, the scope of questions will be 1,300 minutes of academic training (26 periods x 50 minutes). In this subject, questions will be asked from a wide range of areas, so please concentrate on studying for one hour.

Here, I will introduce four common mistakes.

1. Be careful of careless mistakes!

The more easily understood questions are written, the more likely you are to answer them without reading them properly and end up making a mistake. If you finish reading part way through and come up with an answer, and when you compare the answers, you may find yourself unable to understand why you wrote that answer.There may be some questions that you could have answered if you had read to the end. Careless mistakes can be avoided if you answer questions that seem simple carefully and carefully.

2. Be careful with Japanese expressions! Be careful with assertive expressions and commanding tone!

1. assertive expression
   (1) When the child is walking alone, surely I have to pause. Answer: × You can slow down or pause.
   (2) At a red light surely have to stop. Answer: × This does not apply to emergency vehicles (ambulances, fire trucks, and police cars).
   *Be careful if there is always something like this!
2. Must memorize numbers
   (1) Time from giving the signal to changing course
   (2) Riding capacity
   (3) Required parking space on the right side of the car when parking on the road
   (4) Load height restrictions
   (5) Maximum amount of time per day that parking can continue on the road.
   (6) Road construction areas and areas where parking is prohibited from fire hydrants.
3. In addition, the Road Traffic Act does not have a commanding tone, and instead uses expressions such as ``you must do something'' and ``you must do something.'' You also need to be careful with words such as "Please do ~" and "There are times when it is better to do ~."

3. Use color to get a feel for the sign problem!

1. The most common mistake when it comes to sign problems is to mistake them for similar signs. for example,
   (1) Red indicates danger (stop, prohibition, etc.)
   (2) Yellow calls for caution (steep descending slopes, road edges that are prone to collapse, etc.)
   (3) Blue indicates guidance (used for directions, information boards, etc.)
   *It is recommended that you first memorize these three colors and then figure out the shapes, as this will go smoothly.

Now, I will teach you some strategies for preparing for these academic exams.

Strategy

1. repeated practice
   The most important thing is to practice repeatedly. By solving practice questions over and over again, you will be able to understand the questioner's intentions and make the correct choices regarding trick questions.
2. time allocation
   By practicing repeatedly, you will be able to get a feel for how to allocate your time. Passing the test is achieved with a 90% correct answer rate, so if you don't read the questions well and miss a question you should have answered, it can be fatal. I think you can get it smoothly if you do a dry run beforehand and avoid careless mistakes so that you don't rush during the actual exam.

At driving schools, we track the pass rates for provisional licenses and regular licenses every month. Therefore, the questions you receive at the driving school are likely to reflect the latest question trends. Also, some driving schools have PCs available so you can practice solving problems at your own convenience.

Use these PC practice tools and problem sets you receive at driving schools to repeatedly solve problems and acquire solid knowledge. Please make use of the online teaching materials below, which will help you understand trick questions and more just by watching the videos.

summary

A once in a lifetime driving school. I hope that everyone who reads this article will fully enjoy campus life at the driving school, which will leave lifelong memories, and graduate smoothly. Please enjoy your wonderful car life.