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Failed my driving test .... Again

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  • Beckyy
    Beckyy Posts: 2,833 Forumite
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    If you're at the stage when you're taking tests I think it's less about the instructor and more about building confidence and becoming comfortable with what you're doing - you know how to drive, you just need to polish it. Best of luck :)
  • suki1964
    suki1964 Posts: 14,313 Forumite
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    Would anyone allow a surgeon to operate on them if they'd passed on their fourth attempt?
    What's that got to do with passing a driving test?


    I'd rather a surgeon who had taken out a thousand appendices then his first ever one
  • I passed 7th time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    yikes!
    believe it or not i wasnt that terrible! i could drive but i was rubbish at menouvers! and i got terribly nervous to the point i couldnt speak on the test! haha!
    after the 5th i changed driving instructor. The woman i had at 1st would get very irate with me when doing reverse round a corner etc but her way of explaining how to do it just didnt sink in with me.
    I had a man instuctor then, he was very laid back and how he explained the menouvers just sank in. I still failed my 6th tho!! :mad:

    by the 7th i really didnt care, wasnt nervous... id just had enough....and i passed!

    Good luck keep going! i passed 8years ago, no accidents and im a really confident driver!

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  • geoffky
    geoffky Posts: 6,835 Forumite
    Valium...The key to passing your test...I know quite a few who have failed then took one tab and sailed it..
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  • Ive been through four driving instructors - first tried when I was 17 and hated it ! tried again a couple of times over the years. Then found a fab instructor and passed at the start of Jan 1st time with 12 minors and havent had the confidence to take the car out on my own yet. Think it might be because it is my husbands pride and joy
  • TimBear
    TimBear Posts: 808 Forumite
    Do try again! I know it's hard, and it's nerve-wracking (at least, it was for me), but it's SO worth it in the end!
  • morganedge
    morganedge Posts: 1,320 Forumite
    geoffky wrote: »
    Valium...The key to passing your test...I know quite a few who have failed then took one tab and sailed it..

    I've got a number of friends who would totally agree with that!
    As a few have mentioned here, people often pass when they have got to the point where they just don't care anymore as they've failed so many times. That's when you're not nervous, and that's when you pass.

    Can be the same for job interviews for some people, too!

    In fact, people who are born confident and never get nervous are blessed.
    It's a shame I can't get hold of valium very easily, lol. It'd make me a 'normal' person without nerves holding me back in life lol

    Unfortunately for me personally, I really don't think I've got the strength to go through all of the lessons/tests/etc again after giving up a few years ago.
  • Brallaqueen
    Brallaqueen Posts: 1,355 Forumite
    I passed fourth time. For me, it was a combo of changing instructors and getting a scooter CBT. It took me extra time to pass my CBT too!

    For me, the cbt was a really good way of getting to grips with the roads and timing things like gaps in roundabouts, without having to think about gears and foot placement as well. I loved that bike, and would never have gotten a car execpt it was stolen at christmas.
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  • morganedge
    morganedge Posts: 1,320 Forumite
    I passed fourth time. For me, it was a combo of changing instructors and getting a scooter CBT. It took me extra time to pass my CBT too!

    For me, the cbt was a really good way of getting to grips with the roads and timing things like gaps in roundabouts, without having to think about gears and foot placement as well. I loved that bike, and would never have gotten a car execpt it was stolen at christmas.

    that's a very good point.
    Part of my thinking about going for my CBT is to improve my 'road sense'

    My instructor always told me that I had just about the best 'control' of the car that he had seen in any of his students for quite a while. (probably because I used to drive my dads jeep around a friends farm as a little kid!)

    However, my poor road sense, and general confusion with roundabouts that have like 4 lanes and various other issues, combined with my 'shipwreck', anxiety riddled mind, meant that I simply crumbled like a pastry when it came to test day!

    My plan for now is to hopefully get my CBT certificate, get a bike, ride around for a year, and then book a driving test again, this time hopped up on valium!!
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