SAINT ZERO:
And you passed anyway??? Jeez, that’s a lenient test. 
I passed the first time with a 90%. I got docked for making a wide right turn, and “braking too fast.” I don’t know what was up with that, since I didn’t slam the brakes at any time. Oh well. BTW…if you miss a stop sign, no matter how small, you deserve to fail…good driving is all about paying attention to the little details.
Jman
I, too, failed the first two tests and passed on the last. It was in High School and I had told all my buddies that I would be picking them up after the test. Well, it was very imbarrassing calling them up and saying, " well, I failed the test again…"
After all that, I am now a paid “Perfessioinal Driver”. My employer trusts me to drive a $100,000 vehicle!
Such is life!
I passed on my first try. That’s the good part. The bad part is that in BC I have to take a second test 1.5 years after I recieved my license. This is a 30 minute road test just to “make sure” that I know what I’m doing. It’s really irritating that they’re testing me again JUST as I’ve picked up all sorts of bad habits. Grrr. I don’t have a good feeling about it.
-nigel
Me too.
I guess some of you didn’t pay attention in your drivers-ed class.
It ain’t rocket science.
Heh…just don’t drive at all!
Ah, 18 and not driving…it’s kind of nice. I’m too scared to drive since I suck at it.
Besides, my 16 year old brother, though a good driver, didn’t see a van coming because of a blind spot so he got in a wreck today. I found out later since I was in the senior class play, and I went hysterical. Luckily Ben wasn’t seriously hurt, just blood gushing from his hands and a cut to the head. We’re all pretty shaken. He totalled our van.
I, too, failed my first drivers test. I had to make a 3 point turn, which I did… but apparently I didnt back up far enough on my way out. Gimme a break, lady… I -cleared- the thing. So she sent me away and I was right back out there the next day. Got 10 pts off for failing to yield to a pedestrian… but we got him scraped off the grill, so I managed to escape with a license and what was left of my self-confidence.
Passed the first time with an 89, but got points taken off on parallel parking for being too close to the curb.
Of course, I haven’t parallel parked once in the five years since.
My first driving test lasted 10 seconds. I did a rolling stop on the first stop sign, and the tester directed me to head on back. A week later, I limped to a license with a score of a 79. But some of my classmates who scored in the high 90s managed to total a couple of cars by the time they finished high school.
I got below 70 (you need 70 to pass in California) both times I took the test. The instructor passed me the second time I took it, anyway. I DID come close to a seventy both times. I think I missed by three points the last time, and I lost points for things like “not taking the right of way” (ie, being a wimp).
I CAN parallel park, but I need about ten back and forth tries to do it. I’m exaggerating, of course. Maybe only eight tries.
I used to drive like grandma when I first got my car. Now? I’m pass more people than pass me. (I don’t regularly cut people off, though.)
On the good side, I’ve never gotten a moving violation in nearly 19 years having a license (though I’ve only been driving regularly for six years).
Sorry guys, guess thats one advantage of growing up out in the sticks, began driving the dirt roads in old junkers when I was 13 and I’ve aced every written and on-road test I’ve ever taken, car and bike.
I have no doubt that every one of you is a good driver, you can probably wheel your friends around all day without a glitch. The trick is to relax, the DMV observer isn’t your enemy, s/he is just doing their job, they put on their pants one leg at a time just like you do, they’re not out to get you and they don’t get paid a bonus for flunking you. Say hello and make with the small talk. Try not to concentrate so hard, just relax and drive, you can do it.
I failed on overnight parking and not looking left before a 3 point turn my first real try. (I had never heard of either before my instructor told me to do them.
Unless I move to some wacky state where they make me retest, I shouldn’t ever have to do that again. I can’t drive when I get nervous. If I’m not nervous, I’m fine. It drives my mother crazy because I get really nervous with her in my car…last time I had her along was in downtown D.C., and I’d have been okay if I’d been alone. Arrrgh.
Passed on the first try but I had been driving for two years on a learner’s permit. In OH if you are under eighteen you need to have driver’s ed, which I couldn’t afford at the time, and I was already married.
I took my test the day after I turned eighteen. Parallel parked perfectly, I was driving a Vega! Driving test I got a 95, for “not slowing down when approaching an intersection”. There was no stop sign, traffic light or even any traffic, but the instructor said I should have slowed down to make sure there was no traffic approaching the intersection even if I had the right of way. I still think she was just making that up.
I uh, don’t actually have my driver’s licence yet, my parents don’t want to pay the extra in surance for a teenage male. but i do have my Motorcycle licence, which i passed on my first time… barely.
It started out fine, but apparently i was riding too close to the center line, so i lost 10 points (you have 70 that you can lose) then she gave me a warning that i wasn’t looking enough??? how the hell did she figure that? she was in a car behind me!!! Then, right at the end of the test after riding through a residential area, we pulled over and she said “You’ve got to watch for those uncontrolled intersections”
And i replied “Which ones??” Apparently, i went through a controlled intersection (with stop signs) that could have been uncontrolled because she didn’t see the stop signs going the other way until she was in the intersection, which of course meant that I couldn’t possibly have seen it. So she docked me 30 points for going through an uncontrolled intersection that was really a controlled intersection? When i voiced my opinion on the matter she said i was Lucky because it’s supposed to be a automatic fail… BUT I DIDN"T DO IT!! AHHHH!!!
testers are evil
that is all…
“I failed on overnight parking”
What? I don’t remember this being part of the test…
I passed my first time, partly because I chose to take the test in Española (rather than Santa Fe), a city not know for its strict driving standards.
The only thing I can think of that went wrong was that, while stopped at a stop sign at a T-intersection, I waited for a bus to go by. I started to pull out and turn when two kids stepped out into the intersection. I had to stop pretty suddenly, and I was sure that would cost me the test, but I passed.
I’m another one who failed the test the first time. It was embarrassing and I felt bad about it, especially since I took the test the day before going on a family vacation and had to wait a few weeks before I could retake it. (I just wanted to get it over with because I felt I was wrongfully failed and I knew I could pass!) I was pretty nervous the second time, especially with the parallel parking. I thought for sure I would run out of time, but the instructor told me calm down and I did it. What a huge relief!
Took me four tries to pass.
After the third time, I had done so poorly (including failing to yeild right of way, cutting a guy off in the process) the instructor asked me if I was on medication.
I wasn’t.
Cordially,
Myron M. Meyer
The Man Who
I passed on my first try. Honestly, the whole test is based on your level or nervousness. I was totally relaxed, personable with the instructor (who said 3 words to me the whole time: “Hi”, and “You passed.”), and had no trouble at all.