Failed my driving test .... Again

morganedge

Slinky wrote: »

Somebody I was at school with had several tests then decided driving wasn't for her. In my opinion it's really limited her choices in life about where she's been able to work. She used to get a lift to work a few miles away, now is limited to places she can walk to.

Yeah, it sucks.
I gave up after failing about 5 or 6 times I think?
I don't think i'd ever be able to pass.

However, I am probably gonna take my CBT test in the summer time (which should be a lot harder to fail than the driving test!) and then can ride around on a 125cc motorbike.
Couldn't your friend do that, so her choices wouldn't be so limited like you say?

Ladyhawk

I passed 1st time (though failed my theory at least twice)

Why do you want to change your instructor?

timbo58

The only problem with the motorcycle test is understanding that to ride properly you have to be better than the 4 wheeled road users, since you will always but always end up worse off than they will in the event of an accident, no matter who is to blame.

I failed the car test twice some 17 years back, then I did a intensive test involving taking a week off work and doing 4 hours driving lesson every day finishing with the actual test on the Friday.
I walked it.
It was so 'normal' by day 5 to be driving around it became easy.
It wasn't cheap but it was as near a guaranteed pass as anything I would recommend.

juno

morganedge wrote: »

Yeah, it sucks.
I gave up after failing about 5 or 6 times I think?
I don't think i'd ever be able to pass.

However, I am probably gonna take my CBT test in the summer time (which should be a lot harder to fail than the driving test!) and then can ride around on a 125cc motorbike.
Couldn't your friend do that, so her choices wouldn't be so limited like you say?

CBT is training so you don't really fail as such, but it's a lot to learn in one day so many people don't manage it. I only just got mine - u turns let me down - but my bf and several other people I know had to go back for another day.

It also only lasts 2 years, so you either need to pass motorbike theory (different to car theory although a lot of questions are the same) and both pratical tests or redo the CBT. And there are different categories of practical test depending on what size bike you want to ride.

morganedge

juno wrote: »

CBT is training so you don't really fail as such, but it's a lot to learn in one day so many people don't manage it. I only just got mine - u turns let me down - but my bf and several other people I know had to go back for another day.

It also only lasts 2 years, so you either need to pass motorbike theory (different to car theory although a lot of questions are the same) and both pratical tests or redo the CBT. And there are different categories of practical test depending on what size bike you want to ride.

In that case it sounds like it'll take me a few days of training before getting my CBT!

I don't plan on taking a motorbike test. I just want to be able to get about without reliying on public transport and lifts from friends all the time. I'll just keep re-taking the CBT every few years.

cheers.

fluffnutter

I think you need to practice a lot, OP, particularly as your failure involved a perceived lack of confidence. Do you have someone who can take you out, say, every other day?

Jo_F

morganedge wrote: »

In that case it sounds like it'll take me a few days of training before getting my CBT!

I don't plan on taking a motorbike test. I just want to be able to get about without reliying on public transport and lifts from friends all the time. I'll just keep re-taking the CBT every few years.

cheers.

Most bike schools advise that you have a taster session first, usually about an hour or so riding around a carpark or somewhere like that, you do a few wobbles around it, do a few figure of eights, practice normal stopping.

Then go do your CBT, you spend a couple of hours inside learning about road positioning, clothing etc, then they take you to an area for practical stuff, (a car park etc), where you again do some wobbling round, figure of eights, regular stops, emergency stops and u turns, they also teach you the lifesaver looks and such like.

Back to the school for a bit more classroom stuff (while you eat your butties), then it's kit back up, insert your earpiece and off for a proper ride on the roads, usually stopping at an industrial estate or something for a few more practice moves, then back to the school and you get your certificate.

Best advice I can give is to pick a school that make it fun, not one where they bark at you. The one I went to say its compulsary to smile while riding.

Just remember, it's training, not a test, relax, listen to the instructors, do what they say and most of all have fun.

jetplane

sirish1979 wrote: »

Hi all,

Thanks for all your wonderful support and replies.

I have now booked my test again on April 9th as I can do more practice during the easter term break.

Now contemplating whether to change my instructor or not.

I have a female instructor who stays just 10 houses away always on time and never cancelled any sessions I feel really comfortable with her. Do you think changing the instructor will it be good or more confusing because of different approach by different instructors

Don't change instructors for the sake of it. If she gives you confidence and you and she can see where your weaknesses are and work on them, then keep going. I would expect her to have been working on your slow driving for example. By today's standards I don't think 2 fails is too bad, but I would be expecting her to have me test ready for the third.

In my case you had to wait months between tests and my first instructor was so laid back it would have taken me years, I started to feel sick before a lesson. Then my brother took lessons with someone else and flew through so I swapped and it made all of the difference. My instructor gave me confidence, praised what I was good at and practiced my lesser talents such as reversing around a corner . He also advised that although he would teach me I should drive as a learner every time I went out in the car between lessons for practice.

Although you have to have a non critical driving partner to be able do that (and a car of course)

Do you know your instructors pass rate?

Looksguywalker

Would anyone allow a surgeon to operate on them if they'd passed on their fourth attempt?

morganedge

Looksguywalker wrote: »

Would anyone allow a surgeon to operate on them if they'd passed on their fourth attempt?

It wouldn't fill me with confidence, but what's that got to do with anything?

It's the way it is in the UK. You can hundreds of times, but when you pass, you've passed.

Maybe you're saying that people should quit if they fail the first or second time, for the benefit of others? Not gonna happen i'm afraid, lol.