Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas School Guide 1.0 Legal information 2.0 School Locations 3.0 Driving School 4.0 Bike School 5.0 Boat School 6.0 Fly School ----------------------------------------------------------- | | | 1.0 Legal information | | | ----------------------------------------------------------- This document is copyrighted and may not be copied or changed without permission of the author. ----------------------------------------------------------- | | | 2.0 School Locations | | | ----------------------------------------------------------- Driving School: In Doherty. South of your garage, opposite a safehouse. San Fierro Bike School: Just south of the Las Venturra's Stadium. Las Venturras Boat School: At Bayside Marine. The little vilage at the sea north of San Fierro. San Fierro - Desert Fly School: North of the restricted area, north-east of the Sherman Dam. You have to buy this property. Las Venturras - Desert ----------------------------------------------------------- | | | 3.0 Driving SChool | | | ----------------------------------------------------------- Overall difficulty: 5/10 As told above this school can be located in Doherty, San Fierro. The name speaks for itself, it's all about driving here. You have 12 tests to pass. Here are the names: - The 360 - The 180 - Whip and Terminate - Pop and Control - Burn and Lap - Cone Coil - The '90' - Wheelie Weave - Spin and Go - P.I.T. Maneuver - Alley Oop - City Slicking You pass a test by getting 70% or more. 85% or more provides you a silver medal and 100% gives you gold. Now on the the tips for the tests. -- The 360 -- Difficulty: 1/10 Time: 10 seconds Vehicle: Infernus Gold: Just start the 360 and finish in your starting position in the alloted time. This is the easiest test, if you can't pass this one, please turn off your console. -- The 180 -- Difficulty: 1/10 Time: 10 seconds Vehicle: Blista Compact Gold: Don't hit any cones and park perfectly in the 10 seconds. Just use the handbrake to take the 180 and park straight between the cones. Easy, maybe practicing with the parking. -- Whip and Terminate -- Difficulty: 2/10 Time: 5 seconds Vehicle: Banshee Gold: Complete the course in the time, no damage and park perfect. The same as the 180 but with only about 2 seconds left to park. -- Pop and Control -- Difficulty: 4/10 Time: 5 seconds Vehicle: Police Gold: Complete the course without damage, in the time and park perfect. Ride to the spikes and just before you ride over them let the X button go. Otherwise you get out of control and bump into the cones. Just steer your way trough the cones and accelerate a little bit if needed. Park perfect for gold. -- Burn and Lap -- Difficulty 9/10 Time: Unlimited Vehicle: Banshee Gold: Complete the course, no damage and under 35 seconds. 35.123 for example is gold. This test is 1 of the hardest. Well, it's not really hard if you're not going for the gold. But if you are you will have a hard time. I find it easier to drive in FPS view. So from the original camera push select 2 times. It's easier to take corners with this sight, you will need to take them as little as possible. Also don't EVER let go of the X button. Hold your finger on the handbrake. If you get to frustrated please do something else for a while cause it will only get worse. I've been trough this :) -- Coin Coil -- Difficulty: 4/10 Time: 10 seconds Vehicle: Banshee Gold: Complete the course, no damage, park perfect and in the allotted time. Not that hard. Just weave between the 2 rows of cones, do a 180, weave again and park perfect between the cones. You don't have much time for this test but it's enough. -- The '90' -- Difficulty: 8/10 Time: 10 seconds Vehicle: Banshee Gold: Complete a perfect '90' without damaging your car in the allotted time. This test isn't really difficult, it's just all about luck. Get some speed and drive a little bit to the right. Then just use handbrake and if needed normal brake. It will probaly take a lot of tries. It's also handy to use the previous skid marks so you can see when you need to brake. -- Wheelie Weave -- Difficulty: 7/10 Time: Unlimited Vehicle: Banshee Gold: Complete the course, park good and take a max of about 3% damage. If the car is going to far to one side move the analoge stick. If it's going to far to the left move the analoge stick to the left. You will need to park as straight as possible and into the red marker with only a max of about 3% to get gold. I did it with 0% with some trieS. -- Spin and Go -- Difficulty: 3/10 Time: 5 seconds Vehicle: Taxi Gold: No damage, park perfect and finish in the allotted time. Reverse the car and do a 180 so the nose of the car is to the parking place. Don't hit any cones and just park between the cones. Shouldn't take to many tries. -- P.I.T. Maneuver -- Difficulty: 6/10 Time: Until the opposing car gets to the line. Vehicle: Police Gold: Complete the test before the other car gets to the line and don't take some serious damage. Just hit the car at the back so it will spin out of control and then ram it in the side. You should end like a T. Most of the time you won't get any damage but sometimes you will. I'm not sure when you do and when you don't. -- Alley Oop -- Difficulty: 7/10 Time: 5 seconds Vehicle: Banshee Gold: Complete a barrel roll in the allotted time and with no damage. Drive the car to the left or right of the ramp so you will make a barrel roll. You will need some practice to do a barrel roll without damaging the car. Parking doesn't matter much (!). But you still can lose some % by parking awfull. -- City Slicking -- Difficulty 9/10 Time: Unlimited Vehicle: Super GT Gold: Finish without damage under a time of 1:40. Never look at the timer. If you want to you can wait a little bit so that the cars will drive by and you can cut a corner. Follow the way on the trolley tracks until the end, then take a right and then left down the curvy road. Don't ride to hard here or you will spin out of control. Also if the car stops the test will be over. From here take a right and again follow the way, if you can take the rails. After a while take a right up a curvy road and drive to the driving school. Park there and finish the test. Parking doesn't matter to your %. Now you have finished the driving school and the street races will unlock. You will probaly got some extra driving skill to. These are awards for the medals you got. All Bronze: Super GT All Silver: Bullet All Gold: Hotknife You can't find the Hotknife anywere else in the game. And yes, I have unlocked them all but I can't send you a screenshot at the moment since I lost my camera :) ----------------------------------------------------------- | | | 4.0 Bike School | | | ----------------------------------------------------------- Overall difficulty: 4/10 The bike school has 6 tests for you to complete. It is located in Las Venturras. More info above. This school is all about handling motorbikes. - The 360 - The 180 - The Wheelie - Jump and Stop - The Stoppie - Jump and Stoppie -- The 360 -- Difficulty: 1/10 Time: 15 seconds Vehicle: FCR 900 Gold: Complete a 360 and stop in your original position. Real easy, just like the first test at the Driving School but with a bike. -- The 180 -- Difficulty: 2/10 Time: 10 seconds Vehicle: PCJ 600 Gold: Park perfectly and don't hit any cones. Get to the cones and use the handbreak to turn. The hardest part is parking, with a bike it's harder then a car. -- The Wheelie -- Difficulty: 4/10 Time: 8 seconds Vehicle: FCR 900 Gold: No damage, park perfect and wheelie all the cones-marked way. Push X and release it just before the wheelie area. Pull back on your left analoge stick and you should wheelie. Release it after the cones and park perfect. Parking shoudn't be hard since you didn't had to go to left or right. -- Jump and Stop -- Difficulty: 2/10 Time: 8 seconds Vehicle: Sanchez Gold: Jump the ramp and park perfect. Self explaining. -- The Stoppie -- Difficulty: 6/10 Time: 8 seconds Vehicle: FCR 900 Gold: Do a stoppie trough the cones and park perfect. Just ride to the cones and stoppie by pushing forward on your left analoge stick while braking. You will go off a little at the end. Parking is the hardest part of this test. -- Jump and Stoppie -- Difficulty: 10/10 Time: 8 seconds Vehicle: NRG 500 Gold: Jump the ramp, land a stoppie and park perfect while doing a stoppie. Really hard one. Jump the ramp and land in a stoppie. You may not land on 2 wheels. Now the hard part. Keep doing a stoppie in the parking space and then stop. If you land on your 2 wheels the test ends. So you will have to practice a lot! You finished the bike school. You probaly have an increased biking skill and happy that you beat the Jump and Stoppie :) The medal rewards are: Bronze: Freeway Silver: FCR-900 Gold: NRG 500 ----------------------------------------------------------- | | | 5.0 Boat School | | | ----------------------------------------------------------- Overall difficulty: 4/10 This school has the lowest number of tests. Online 5. And they all are quite simple. Once again, look above for the location. This school teaches you how to handle a boat. -- Basic Seamanship -- Difficulty: 1/10 Time: Unlimited Vehicle: Coastguard Gold: Stop inside the buoys, no damage and in 10 seconds. Push X until about 0:05-6 and then press square. -- Plot a Course -- Difficulty: 2/10 Time: Unlimited Vehicle: Coastguard Gold: Complete course within 35 seconds and don't hit any buoys. Just go trough the buoys, take sharp turns if needed. -- Fresh Slalom -- Difficulty: 5/10 Time: Unlimited Vehicle: Dinghy Gold: Complete the course within 1:20 and don't take any damage. Follow the course, again take sharp turns if needed. -- Flying Fish -- Difficulty: 7/10 Time: 45 seconds Vehicle: Vortex Gold: Land inside the buoys and further then 67 meters. The hardest one in the boat school but it isn't real hard. Just hold X and when your in air hold down on your left analoge stick and you will get much further. -- Land, Sea and Air -- Difficulty: 7/10 Time: Unlimited Vehicle: Vortex Gold: You need to finish this course in 2:10 and don't take any damage. This isn't real hard if you can control the Vortex good. You finished the Boat school. Again this will reward you with some vehicles. Bronze: Marquis Silver: Squallo Gold: Jetmax ----------------------------------------------------------- | | | 6.0 Plane School | | | ----------------------------------------------------------- Overall difficulty: 4/10 You have to complete this school to get further in the game. You can learn to fly when you did the mission Verdan Meadows. And again, location is above. You have quite some tests to pass here. - Takeoff - Land Plane - Circle Airstrip - Circle Airstrip and Land - Helicopter Takeoff - Destroy Targets - Loop-the-Loop - Barrel Roll - Parachute onto Target -- Takeoff -- Difficulty: 1/10 Time: Unlimited Vehicle: Rustler Gold: Complete within 30 seconds and no damage taken. Take off and as soon as you get of the ground push R3 so you will climb better. Now just fly further until the test is done. -- Land Plane -- Difficulty: 4/10 Time: Unlimited Vehicle: Rustler Gold: Land perfect in the marker, under 25 seconds and without to much damage. As soon as you start, go down and push R3. Get close to the bottom of the corona. When you're about 35 to 25 meters away from the red marker hold square and you'll do fine. May take a few tries but it will work. -- Circle Airstrip -- Difficulty: 7/10 Time: Unlimited Vehicle: Rustler Gold: Complete the course with no damage and within 60 seconds. Take off and press R3 fast so you will climb easier. You should reach the corona at about 18 seconds. Use L2 and R2 to turn and a little bit the left analoge stick. -- Circle Airstrip and Land -- Difficulty: 8/10 Time: Unlimited Vehicle: Rustler Gold: Complete the course and land in the marker within 1:20. Just as the Circle Airstrip but with a landing. -- Helicopter Takeoff -- Difficulty: 1/10 Time: Unlimited Vehicle: Hunter Gold: Complete with no damage and within 50 seconds. Easy gold, just push X to get high. After 10 seconds turn to the other side and fly forward to the corona and gold is yours. -- Land Helicopter -- Difficulty: 4/10 Time: Unlimited Vehicle: Hunter Gold: No damage, within 30 seconds. Fly a little forward, go down while going forward, release X when the game says so and use L3 to land in the marker and receive gold. -- Destroy Targets -- Difficulty: 7/10 Time: Unlimited Vehicle: Hunter Gold: Complete within 1:20 and take no damage. Destroy the 3 trucks, then the 2 cars and land. No real strategy, just skill and practice. It is handy to do this one in FPS view since you get a marker then and it's easier to aim that way. -- Loop-the-Loop -- Difficulty: 5/10 Time: Unlimited Vehicle: Stunt Plane Gold: No damage and within 21 seconds. Push X and hold down on your left analoge stick when the game says you to. Again no real strategy. -- Barrel Roll -- Difficulty: 4/10 Time: Unlimited Vehicle: Stunt Plae Gold: Within 25 seconds and no damage. Go trough the corona and after that do a barrel roll. Easy gold. -- Parachute onto Target -- Difficulty: 7/10 Time: Unlimited Vehicle: None Gold: Land in the middle of the target. Hold up for about 20 seconds, then open the parachute and then just aim for the middle of the target. You have just completed the Fly school. This gives you some flying skill, a pilot licence and the ability to go further in the game. Again you can unlock some vehicles. Bronze: Rustler Silver: Stunt Plane Gold: Hunter Also if you now enter a plane or helicopter you get a parachute. You also gain acces to all airports. ========================================================== I hope you like this Guide. It's my second on and again for G-Unleashed.com.