Failed driving test

[Vixen]

I know you are not supposed to go on the motorway but as a learner i've been on dual carriage ways, did 70mpg, 45pmh???? where did you get that from? That means its 100% town driving, no national speed limit roads.

I can't believe you're learning to drive and don't know the difference between a motorway and dual carriageway. How do you manage to pass a theory test without reading the highway code?

Learner drivers are not allowed on the motorway, dual carriageways are fine. One of the test routes where I sat my test had a dual carriageway in it.

 

[neoboy]

I got dead lucky with my test, only had to do emergency stop and turn of the road without any parking or even dual carriageway work. Only 3 minors, however, almost failed on traffic lights as approached them too fast and I just decided to keep going. Would've kicked myself if I failed on that particularly as there were no cars anywhere in sight so no pressure whatsoever.

 

[Jon33]

Passing a driving test is No Swearing easy, passed after 10 driving lessons with only 2 minors (one was for not knowing where the oil goes in the car =/). Just basicaly have to drive safe and check your mirrors. The real test actualy comes after you've passed and then you really learn to drive.

 

[Gerard]

Must just be Northern Ireland then When also are restricted to 45mph for one year after passing the test. Aww well.

Blackvault

Yup, makes the no learners on motorways rule even more confusing since we get restricted anyway.

got mine on 31st this month at 9:50am, need to get practising manouvures. Doing it in an auto though so it takes off some of the pressure off stalls etc, can't be arsed with manuals at all.

 

[VortexA1]

Passing a driving test is No Swearing easy

**** easy for you..but obviously not for everyone.


I was lucky and passed first time however.

 

[Gerard]

I failed my first test for forcing another car to take evasive action. He took me up a narrow road that was completely parked all down one side with no passing points apart from about 3/4 of the way up. I drove up it followed by another car and got to about 3/4 when a single vehicle coming the other way decided to drive past the passing point instead of stopping and waiting. The other driver realised that I couldn't go anywhere so drove up the curb (literaly completely on the curb), which was evasive action apparently.

The thing was the examiner told me it would have been fine if the other car had pulled in at the passing point that they chose to pass. So I failed my test because an impatient driver coming the other way decided to fully drive up a curb instead of pulling in at a passing point. He couldnt explain to me how this was my fault so I was slightly miffed. This was a month after they cancelled my first test because the examiner was 2 minutes late for the start of the test, so my opinion of examiners is not exactly good.

How the hell can they fail you for something another driver did? Id be argueing him blue in the face if that was me, i think everyone heard the rumours about instructors having quotas of so many passes so many fails, if they cant explain why they fail you then id say those rumours may have more susbstance to them than i initially thought.

 

[EvilDreams]

got mine on 31st this month at 9:50am, need to get practising manouvures. Doing it in an auto though so it takes off some of the pressure off stalls etc, can't be arsed with manuals at all.

I'm not trying to change your mind here, but won't that turn out to be severely limiting to you? What about driving other people's cars, test driving a car, or work?

 

[memyselfandi]

I failed my first test for forcing another car to take evasive action. He took me up a narrow road that was completely parked all down one side with no passing points apart from about 3/4 of the way up. I drove up it followed by another car and got to about 3/4 when a single vehicle coming the other way decided to drive past the passing point instead of stopping and waiting. The other driver realised that I couldn't go anywhere so drove up the curb (literaly completely on the curb), which was evasive action apparently.

The thing was the examiner told me it would have been fine if the other car had pulled in at the passing point that they chose to pass. So I failed my test because an impatient driver coming the other way decided to fully drive up a curb instead of pulling in at a passing point. He couldnt explain to me how this was my fault so I was slightly miffed. This was a month after they cancelled my first test because the examiner was 2 minutes late for the start of the test, so my opinion of examiners is not exactly good.

Had a roughly the same thing on my first test ... having survived the majority of the test despite it being Friday afternoon rush hour in Salisbury I was only a couple of minutes out from the test centre and some muppet in a BMW decided that despite me having right of way he was going to force his way through. The examiner apologised and said he had to fail me despite it not being my fault, wasn't particular happy with that.

Re took the test a few years later after a break ... had a much more reasonable examiner and passed with out any real problems, (in Wincester, at the end of November in torrential rain .... makes reversing round the corned interesting when it covered in leaves and pretty much flooded!).

 

[Tom0]

Gutted mate, tests are expensive these days too!

Don't let it knock your confidence, get a test booked again as soon as you can afford it. Live and learn.

 

[InvaderGIR]

I can't believe you're learning to drive and don't know the difference between a motorway and dual carriageway. How do you manage to pass a theory test without reading the highway code?

Learner drivers are not allowed on the motorway, dual carriageways are fine. One of the test routes where I sat my test had a dual carriageway in it.

I think you'll find you just argued the point that person was making

He was saying that learners are allowed on dualies and he did 70mpg on one (damn impressive fuel consumption to be honest ), but not on motorways so how come someone mentioned that they are limited to 45mph on motorways.

As for the 4 lane motorway, are you sure it wasn't a 4 lane dual carriageway? There are some roads I've been on that have had 3 and 4 lanes but not been a motorway.

As for examiners, I know just how petty some can be, I had the chief examiner who saw fit to make a minor out of nothing (luckily he didn't make majors out of nothing). Such things as 'wrong side of the road on a one way street' - I was in the left lane, going to turn left at the end of the road, just before the end there was a van parked up on my side of the road, so I had to manoeuvre around it which resulted in me stopping at the end of the road not quite in my lane. I also got 'wrong lane when entering a roundabout' - entrance to said roundabout was only 1.5 the size of the car, and so I was in the middle or something and not to the side (being at either side would not have helped any other drivers as they wouldn't be able to sit alongside anyway).

The examiner was well known for failing people for no real reason and being very harsh. Still, I passed, first time, with 11 minors.

InvG

 

[Justintime]

Funniest fail was a friend of mine who managed to mount a roundabout on her test.

Funniest pass is a mate who still did after mounting a small roundabout, not huge but enough to cause a bad bump on dismount, mind you this was 1996 lol.