Well I've taken the lessons, done the exam, passed, gotten my PERMIT(you have to wait a year to get your license. With a permit you can only drive with a licensed person over 18 in the car with you), waited more than a year simply because here you have to pay for 6 months of insurance in advance before they will give you a license, and I just can't afford that, and my permit was recently revoked because I failed a class(art, I goofed off all year and then realized I was gonna fail too late.)