[Marsh.]

Depends how quickly you picked it up.

My first lesson was spent going up and down a quiet country road getting used to the car and going over the basic rules. Then the second half practicing gaining speed changing my gears and changing back down again. Making sure it was all smooth and I stopped doing stupid things like leaving my foot on the accelerator when I go to change gear and making it scream.

The second and third lessons were then left turns and putting the basic into practice on actual roads that weren't just an empty straight path.

But if it took someone a little longer to pick up basics then I can imagine them taking it steady and doing one thing at a time.

I can't imagine why you'd need to practice left turns constantly before moving on because even if she moved on to teaching the next thing you'd still be putting all of your previous stuff like left turns into practice. And once you're more confident and a good few hours into it then there is time then before your test to put in the practice hours of just driving around and smoothing out the rough edges. There's no reason at that early stage for her to be telling you to just do the same thing over and over. Learning to drive tends to involve doing several things at once.