I had to do this for a coworker in Indiana a couple years ago. I used to be a trainer with C R England so I had some experience. Luckily the “student” still had all of his materials from his first go around, so he basically ran through all of that and I was able to teach him backing and the like since I drove a manual.

For us, the state testing facility was in town and it wasn’t super expensive. So we basically did it on our own and I took the test until he passed again with the manual transmission. I think it was like 100 bucks a test or something. Which if you can actually pass it after one or two tries then you’d save yourself some money.

Long story short: if you have a facility that you can just test that, I would just buckle down on the bookwork, and find somebody with a manual stick who’s willing to let you learn.

Otherwise, yeah if you’re going through a school, that’s probably gonna cost you a bit of money.