I passed my driving test today. I could tell you guys how excited I am, relieved, free to go where I please. Instead here are my top tips on how to pass your driving test in Lisburn city.

1. Do not practice for 72hours the day before your test.

2. Work so many hours that you can't think about driving or cars or roads or signs the week of the test. If you do, you'll burn yourself on the coffee machine.

3. Befriend your examiner asap. Sympathize with the fact that he spends his life driving around Lisburn in the passenger seat.

4. Make a point of telling the examiner, (whose name is Brian, I know this because we are friends now, see point 3 above) how many times you have previously failed. This makes you a professional.

5. When reversing around a corner, and about to hit a curb but don't know whether to drive back out and start again or keep going with fingers crossed, talk so much about your possible options that Brian eventually just tells you what to do.

Good luck future test takers. I hope Brian is you're examiner because he is a legend.