Essays on study habits, interface restraint, the Swedish driving test, and what it costs to ship one app a year. No newsletters about productivity. No SEO listicles. Published when there's something worth saying — roughly once a month.
Trafikverket's pass rate sits at 47%. That number includes nervous over-preparers and people who walked in cold. Here's how to land on the right side of it — what's actually on the test, how the questions are scored, and the eight chapters most people underestimate.
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StudioOn the one-app-a-year cadence — what you give up, what stays, and how a two-person studio survives a quiet quarter.
A practical category B guide for newcomers: learner's permit, eye test, risk courses, theory test, driving test, language support, timing and costs.
A realistic planning guide to the Swedish category B timeline: permits, theory, driving practice, risk courses, test dates and the delays learners usually miss.
A practical breakdown of where the money goes: official fees, eye test, risk courses, driving lessons, retakes and planning buffers.
A practical guide to Sweden's compulsory risk training: what each part covers, when to book it, how long it is valid and common timing mistakes.
How the Trafikverket knowledge test works: question count, pass score, validity, language support and a smarter way to prepare.
What happens during körprov: safety check, manoeuvres, real traffic driving, Swedish instructions, automatic gearbox rules and common mistakes.
The first step before practice: körkortstillstånd, health declaration, eye test certificate, private practice and approved supervisor requirements.
How private practice works: approved handledare, introduction course, approval certificate, ÖVNINGSKÖR sign and safe practice planning.
Can you drive or exchange it? A practical guide to EEA licences, non-EEA licences, the one-year rule, translation needs and timing.
What code 78 means, when automatic helps, when manual gives more flexibility and how to choose before booking the driving test.
How to plan Trafikverket dates around risk training, photo, ID, the theory result's 4-month validity window and readiness for körprov.
A calm recovery plan: read the result, find the weak area, rebook wisely and protect the 4-month theory validity window.
Why learners fail kunskapsprov: memorising questions, weak risk thinking, language traps, rushing and missing real traffic logic.
What often goes wrong on körprov: observation, speed adaptation, late planning, unsafe gaps, passive driving and vulnerable road users.
What learners should practise before snow, ice and darkness: winter tyres, visibility, longer safety margins, low speed and calm decisions.
How to combine professional lessons with private practice so you get structure, repetition, feedback and fewer bad habits.
Smooth, safe and fuel-efficient driving: planning ahead, steady speed, fewer hard stops and better safety margins.
A practical guide to give way, stop, the right-hand rule, signs, signals and why learners hesitate at junctions.
What learners must watch for around vulnerable road users in cities, crossings, residential areas, darkness and parked traffic.
What to bring, when to take the Trafikverket photo and how to avoid stress at check-in.
How signs, road markings and signals work together when answers are not obvious.
Why the posted limit is only the maximum and how to choose a safe speed for the situation.
Reaction time, stopping distance, road grip and why distance is active safety.
Observation, signalling, lane choice and calm priority decisions at junctions.
Joining, lane discipline, following distance, exits and speed adaptation on faster roads.
Narrow roads, hidden bends, tractors, darkness and animal-warning situations.
Low-speed control, observation, margins, reversing into spaces and safe corrections.
Tyres, lights, mirrors, warning lamps, seating position and daily safety habits.
Risk awareness, legal responsibility, tiredness, medicine and when not to drive.
Protecting the scene, warning others, calling for help and acting calmly.
Special traffic situations where patience, observation and clear priority matter.
Mirror routines, blind spots, speed difference, gaps and when not to overtake.
Using lights correctly, seeing vulnerable road users and adapting speed at night.
How to build a realistic weekly plan for rules, risk, signs and mixed practice.
Turning wrong answers into learning instead of repeating the same quiz mistakes.
What changes after approval, how to keep learning and why probation matters.
Wet roads, tyre grip, visibility, puddles and how to reduce aquaplaning risk.
Temporary speed limits, workers, lane shifts and reading the newest instruction first.
Low speed, unpredictable movement, parked cars and extra observation near children.
Notes on designing for drivers, not test-takers. Why the Swedish theory test rewards the wrong kind of memory — and what we did about it in the product.
An honest breakdown of the chapter people lose the most points on, with the seven sign families that account for 60% of mistakes.
We sat in the waiting room for five days and watched 312 people walk in for their theory test. Patterns in who passed, who didn't, and what they were carrying.
A walk through the spaced-repetition curve we use, why we abandoned SuperMemo's full algorithm, and the simplification that didn't hurt outcomes.
How we structure the question pool so the same item reads naturally in Swedish, Tigrinya, and Pashto — without a translation engineer.
48,000 students. €0 in paid acquisition. A quiet but honest look at what worked, what didn't, and what we'd cut if we started over today.
The chapter most people skim. Why it matters more than signs, and the four habits Trafikverket examiners actually test for.
A monthly roundup of the most thoughtful mail we received — from a refugee in Malmö, a Trafikverket instructor in Lund, and a parent in Umeå.