Never mind. It happens to the best of us.

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LOL When I did that I promptly got lost. The unerring Grumpy sense of direction gets me into all sorts of interesting situations. ??? By the time I'd found my way the examiner had got fed up wating & gone back to the office. Needless to say I failed. I won't tell you what he said.

I read about one examiner that told the examinee that he would step out in the road & hold up his hand for an emergency stop at some point in the proceedings. The examiner was as good as his word & stepped out in the road with his hand in the air. Unfortunately he did this in front of the wrong motorbike & was run over.

Well as I told my instructor. All the best people fail first time.

bad luck woody, better luck next time.

What did you do wrong?

I've been merrily terrorizing the roads since August.

Ouch, thats harsh. I almost failed mine for being too far out, luckily my examiner seemed to be more interested in getting home, and let me go further back. Plus I drove off without clearing the rain off the window and it was really bad. So I got lucky. You'll get it next time mate:)

It seems strange that got you a fail. Did you do something wrong while pulling away from the van?

What the devil is a reverse left and turn manouever?  Is it a 3-point turn type thing? 

On my driver test she told my I was a bit far from the kerb while parallel parking, but I was perfectly aligned with the car in front and behind.

the left reverse is a reversing manuver round a left corner from a Major road into a minor road or minor to minor, but never minor onto a major road. You have to do it without hitting the curbs while preferably keeping within a foot or two of the curb. The british test is generally not that tough but can be tricky in the case of Woodlouse if you have a car or pedestrian appear while doing a manuver like that.  you have to do a set amount, mine was the 3 point turn, emergency stop and reversing round the corner. Others include reverse or parrallel parking, bay parking. And about 35 to 50 minutes of general driving to show your competant on the roads. Alot of it depends on the examiner as to how tough the test is to pass. They can really get you for the smallest things. India has the easiest test, drive forward, turn left then right and pull up to a stop. Do that right you pass. Which is scary as its the most dangerous place in the world to drive.

I didn't get nervous during my test at first, I was so focused it wasn't an issue, then about 20 minutes in my examiner started asking me questions about myself and thats when it really hit me and it was a case of just hoping to not screw up:)

So is it like backing into a driveway? 

Our test is essentially a drive round the neighborhood, feature a lane-change, double-stop(stop at corner, turn, then there is another hidden stop right there), 3-point turn, parallel parking and that's it.  Takes less than 5 minutes.  And I'm still the only person my age I know of that hsn't yet been in an accident.

[pedantic mode] There's no such thing as a '3 point turn' in the UK driving test [/pedantic mode]

TSC (being picky LOL).

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Indeed. It's a turn in the road using the forward and reverse gears only.

Well, following the differed success I had last friday I now have a brand new test booked for the 30th. Lets hope it won't be third time lucky.

I think that is possibly the fastest reply in forum history.

what happend?

Sounds ... scary! 

I passed the first time straight... Not to many people do in Belgium!

I'm still not sure what good that reverse around the bend test does. Seems very dangerous to do in real traffic to me! But hey, whoever makes up these test must be so frustrated. Luckely I have an aunt who's a driver's teacher, so she made it even harsher for me ( parallel-parking place smaller, reverse trough an alley test even tighter), so I wass well prepared on my test. Still the first moments my nerves took over, as I remember my clutch-leg trambling so much I feared losing control!  Didn't happen though... it got better in the end..

Cheer up woody... you'll get there... eventually...

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