The category list in my country is:
A - motorbike, motorcycle
B - under 3.5 tons weight (normal cars)
C - trucks or vehicles over 3.5 tons (including vans that pass that weight)
D - public transport vehicles with over 9 seats for passengers
E - trailer (meaning if you have E you can drive anything with a trailer)
It costs about 300-400 EURO at the moment, but when I took it it was a bit more (about 500), classes on a Seat Ibiza. A essential part is gathering a minimum of 40 driving hours (an hour is considered 50 minutes at driving schools) before exam, with a max of 1 hour per day, plus 60 hours of indoor class with written test simulation and quizzes regarding the active driving laws.
The written exam is a ABCD answers one, with the possibility of none, any or all answers being correct. You get a cardboard where you only do X's on the corresponding answer boxes.
The written test I took it twice, first time I misplaced all my answers with one box. You know how I felt when I saw that I have one more question, but there wasn't any box left for it?
Meaningless to say, I got zero points on that (I think it's a record
). The second time 100% correct answers, then driving around town for about 3 minutes only and that was all.
Now I'm in my sixth year of driving, and I have about 100.000 km on the road, with the "record" of 2.400 km in 28 hours. Drove around almost any model I can think of, but none of the "supercars" brands, except a Porsche 911.