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Failed my driving test
TunnelVision9
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What an awful feeling!
8 minors and 1 serious. The serious being I didn't indicate when turning right at the roundabout.
Seriously annoyed at myself
8 minors and 1 serious. The serious being I didn't indicate when turning right at the roundabout.
Seriously annoyed at myself
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Was it nerves or do you think you were not quite ready?
Maybe try a different driving instructor - they vary so much and you will get used to having different people in the car with you. Ask your instructor to do some mock tests with you and see if you can pass them.
Plenty of people fail this test - just brush yourself off and try again
I was a little bit nervous but not too much, i just had a mind blank at the roundabout and as soon i made the turn i knew i had failed
Today was also the day that bay parking was introduced and i did it perfectly. The guy who did it before me was struggling as he kept parking between two bays, he then left the car and abandoned the test.
Well done for not giving up, i think i would have. I'm booking mine again for November
Any advice on which would be a better time, 8:10am or 9:07?
8.10 is slap bang in rush hour so I'd plump for 9.07.
I passed on my third test.
Those times are really not much different and won't make any difference to passing or not.
I think you are just feeling a bit let down and wondering if you make the right decisions for your next test. You'll feel better by tomorrow and realise that making your own decisions will boost your confidence and that is what is needed to pass a test.
A lot of my minors were apparently because I used the gears really badly. Normally I wouldn't do this, but on certain roads I got so obsessed with irrelevant tiny things that I completely forgot about my gears and cruised along in second gear for ages for some reason. I did the same thing on another road and I have absolutely no recollection of it. I have no idea why I did any of this.
The rest of my minors were mainly due to hesitancy.
One of them was completely my driving instructor's fault. He taught me that to do an emergency stop you just brake as hard as you possibly can and put the clutch in.
I did this and got a minor for it because it's wrong. Apparently you have to emergency stop in a more "controlled manner" (whatever that means) and pretend that ABS is off.
So now I don't know how you do an emergency stop...
Failing my test was an awful experience, but so was the week leading up to it which I found many times more stressful than doing my A-levels.
I just gave up. I hate driving. It does nothing but stress me out.
Bad luck, OP. You will get there though, don't beat yourself up.
My instructor did tell me that he'd never seen anyone get a minor for the emergency stop for the same reason as me in all his career, but for all I know that could be because nobody mentioned it to him.
The examiner told me "You need to brake in a more controlled manner. If ABS had been switched off, you'd have skidded" which is fair enough, but I don't really know how you can emergency brake in a "controlled manner" because no-one told me.
Maybe, but I would like to know what examiner's correct version is though.
is there any evidence at all that people who take more than five tests to pass are more dangerous drivers? :cool:
.......give 'em 50 lashes and and a couple of years in jail as well.
So you're perfectly happy with a totally inept driver who's failed 10 times, but gets lucky and passes on their 11th attempt to be on the road?
With some people they may be very nervous in learning and taking the test but it doesn't mean they won't improve.
common sense, well that would say that they wouldn't be arrogant drivers burning about at 50mph in a 30 texting their mates??
I think you've to hit the brake first and then the clutch and not do them at the same time.
Yeah I guess sometimes luck comes into it, the roundabout was not that busy but I can't really remember clearly.
If someone passed on their 11th attempt I wouldn’t exactly call them lucky!.:o...........and they wouldn't be inept.
They will have presumably shown themselves to be competent enough to achieve a 'pass'.
No more, or less, than someone who passes 1st time. Previous failures have no bearing whatsoever.
You're a hard man, Greg.;-)
I think that is a bit harsh but frankly when I read some of these stories about multiple failures I do wonder If some people should take the hint.