My experience: I was 18 (1 year ago) when I decided to book my CBT. I booked it for a Sunday morning from a driving school which operated on a school literally 5minutes walk from me - so I had no problem walking down there. I got there and found that another lad was doing his CBT. He was 19-20years old and had already done his CBT once, coming back for his second time. As I read earlier, it really makes the CBT difficult when you're with another person who knows everything already. We got read the safety laws, how to take corners etc and went outside to get on the bikes. The experianced rider took the Scooter (easy way out!) whereas I took the YBR125. Baring in mind, I had NEVER ridden a bike before - let alone handle the gears. We pushed the bikes around the school yard for a bit and then went onto riding them around the yard slowly. When I say slowly, that's what we were supposed to be doing. I'm a very overconfident person when I get the hang of something you see. So, when my instructor told me to 'ride around the yard in first gear around 10mph and perform a u-turn', I interpreted that as something different. So, I hopped on, did a few laps of 10mph. I then decided to get up to 3rd gear, accelerate up to 40mph on the yard, slam my front and back breaks on, hop down to 1st gear and perform a u-turn. When I got back, my instructor said he thought I was going to crash and laughed about it all.. He said I was doing very well for a first time learner. He taught us about the bike, oil, wheel care, bike security etc and said we could go onto the road for our practical. WAHEY! I jumped on the bike and began to follow him out of the school yard. When we got to the junction to the main road from the school, I stalled it and couldn't get it back up again. My instructor helped me to start it and off we went. He took us up to a place called Newcastle which funnily enough, has the most dangerous roundabouts I've ever seen in my life. Yes, he decided it'd be a good idea to get us to go on these roundabouts.... God, I hated him! I lost him on the first roundabout because I was scared of pulling out when cars were coming. So, we found each other and continued on our way. The next roundabout, we lost the other guy who was taking his CBT so we pulled in and waited. I rolled my bike down a pretty steep bank on the pavement. The other guy came. However, I was stuck... Trying to get up an uphill bank, it just wasn't working! Pull the throttle, release the clutch, oh it's stalled and my bikes rolling back down! My instructor taught me how to ride up banks and that was my pass for the upbank start! Funny how it just happened there, but I wasn't complaining. On the way back, we were on a 50mph A road into Stoke. Now, since the other guy was on a 50CC scooter and was doing 30mph, I thought screw this! I performed my first overtake on my CBT, accelerated up to 50mph and overtook him, slowed down and rode behind my instructer. When we got near the school, a car decided to knock my confidence by driving literally 1foot away from the back of my bike. I was constantly looking in the mirror, shitting myself. Got back, passed my CBT - I was chuffed! He said I was a very quick learner. The other lad complimented me on how quick I learnt and we all went our separate ways!