How many attempts to pass your driving test?

[scumbag]

First time at 17 years and 6 months old :bannana:

damn, I was 17, 6months and 4 days....

better add, PCV (PSV 1 in those days) on the 3rd attempt.

LGV (HGV class 2) at the 2nd attempt

LGV (HGV 1) at the first attempt.

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

Passed first time - IIRC it was 7 weeks after my 17th birthday.

My instructor agreed to "put me in for my test" on my first lesson, and the test was due to be a month later. Snow meant that it had to be re-arranged three times, and because I could only do it on Wednesday's (I was at school at the time and that was the only day with a free afternoon) it took a further three weeks to be tested.

I wanted to drive since I could walk and talk!!

 

[Darrell]

Second time for me.

First time was when I was 18 and I failed dramatically.

I was full of attitude and covered in zits, so I waited 3 years and passed on the second attempt with flying colours.

The next day I went out and bought a black 1800cc mk1 Golf GTI reg no. A392 FPK.

I got a bank loan over 3 years that was paid off by all of my scrap lead

 

[Rayny]

1st time for me - on my 30th birthday

 

[oldcro]

First time 4 times and still useless.:bannana:

 

[matt17081]

I passed my test first time TWICE !!!

when i was 17 i passed my test first time after driving on the read for about 2 1/2 weeks(however i had been driving for a number of years off road), then a few years later i managed to get banned for speeding (72 MPH in a 30 zone and quite rightly had a 12 month driving ban, 9 additional points, £600 fine and had to retake an extended driving test - which was a good thing in retrospect) and had to take an extended driving test which i passed first time​

 

[st4]

2nd time at 17 - failed the first time for insufficent progress, a fault that has since been corrected

I was failed 1st time for this.

I took heed of what the examiner told me, so imagine my horror in September when making progress a police officer pulls me over, gives me a ticket and a £60 commending my swift progress

No pleasing some folk is there

 

[nicko]

When i was 17 i had a motorbike and wanted to take my bike test.My mother did not like me riding motorbikes ,so paid for me to have driving lessons.Well i passed my test 1st time at 17.I then went on to pass my bike test (2nd time)

 

[rizzer]

Car first time at 17 and 6 weeks

I was also into motorbikes and passed my test at 17 and 3 days. Unusually I also took my moped test at 16 just so that I could ditch the L plates and take passengers, oh and the number of times I got stopped by the old bill because it was so unusual not to have L plates on a moped. One evening in Cheltenham I got stopped twice by the same copper in two different streets, however I remember he did see the funny side and sent me on my way the second time.

 

[HR17]

I passed 1st time a month after my 17th birthday and 5 lessons. I had a class mate who passed hers on her 17th birthday too(yes that was definately the word hers and not his believe it or not!).

I've also done advanced test since then and got that too.

It doesn't run in the familty though, as my brother failed his test after nearly hitting a copper getting out of a marked police car. He also wrote off his car on the day he eventually passed his test.

 

[ringway]

1st time aged 17 at Didsbury test centre even though I forgot to use the handbrake on the three point turn.

I'd probably done enough to pass by performing a perfect unexpected emergency stop and later calmly pulling over to let a fire engine through.

At the end of the test the examiner held up the highway code and wasn't even looking at the pages containing the road signs he was asking me to identify.

When out on my first lesson, my instructor Ron Thurston said he would stick a pin in the back of my hand if I insisted on leaving it on the gear stick. And he did just that. Once was enough.

 

[jimti]

passed car test after 7 hrs training, then one week later passed hgv 3 after another 16 hours training, all at the tender age of 17. then at 19 I took my class 2 hgv after a 3 day course. I did fail my bike test though and never got round to retaking it

 

[del320]

Having taken to the road before I was 15 (1965) and then perfecting my skills over the next couple of years in a 1953 Standard Vanguard, a Morris J4, a Volvo 145 and a Commer refuse lorry, I failed my test on the first attempt because I was so good - .

They called it over-confidence 'cos I whipped through the manoeuvres without all the measured, ponderous and exaggerated actions expected by the examiner.

Passed on the second attempt despite hitting the kerb and ignoring a temporary sign warning of roadworks. Had to set the mirror (singular in those days) and seat way out of line, so forcing me to overemphasize every movement.

 

[Aoraki]

Passed first time, 17 and a couple of months and 3 lessons.

 

[renault12ts]

2nd time.

Its one of those questions that follows one throughout life...like did you pass the 11plus ( an exam only just abandoned in NI).

You could be a world champion and still not have passed the test at the first attempt...and yet someone will say nah nah I passed at the first go ...so there.
Or the eminent brain surgeon etc etc who failed the 11plus but obviously subsequently proved himself...

I passed at the second attempt and yet not only love driving but driving well. I think about my driving every minute I am at the wheel...so obviously most people don't and yet a fair proportion probably passed first time and therefore think they are good drivers.

I contend that those of us honest enough to admit to passing at other than the first attempt probably are better drivers because of this rather than in spite of this.

Where I live I can see a bus lane. It only operates between 4-30pm and 6pm Monday through Friday...yet even at 3 in the morning drivers will avoid it. Tell me those people care about driving. Waiting for one of my daughters to get home one night I counted 70% of drivers avoiding the bus lane at 3 in the morning!! I fear most drivers are lemmings. And yet a fair proportion passed first time.

Or those drivers who waiting at traffic lights to turn right will not move forward of the line on green until they can cross over...probably first time passers also.

So, to all of you who passed first time...well done...but I fervently hope you didn't stop learning at that point.

Rant over.

 

[del320]

Blimey! I'm feeling better already.

 

[stevesey]

Or those drivers who waiting at traffic lights to turn right will not move forward of the line on green until they can cross over...probably first time passers also.

Which often means the right turn filter (if there is one) doesn't come on, so they end up sitting through several sequences. Two sets of these, near us, where I've seen people sit behind the line on a solid green and have to wait for 1 or 2 sequences before they eventually move forward and find that suddenly the filter starts working.

 

[renault12ts]

Which often means the right turn filter (if there is one) doesn't come on, so they end up sitting through several sequences. Two sets of these, near us, where I've seen people sit behind the line on a solid green and have to wait for 1 or 2 sequences before they eventually move forward and find that suddenly the filter starts working.

After this happened three times once I got out of my car and walked to the offender and advised them to move the next time...

 

[jimti]

2nd time.

Its one of those questions that follows one throughout life...like did you pass the 11plus ( an exam only just abandoned in NI).

You could be a world champion and still not have passed the test at the first attempt...and yet someone will say nah nah I passed at the first go ...so there.
Or the eminent brain surgeon etc etc who failed the 11plus but obviously subsequently proved himself...

I passed at the second attempt and yet not only love driving but driving well. I think about my driving every minute I am at the wheel...so obviously most people don't and yet a fair proportion probably passed first time and therefore think they are good drivers.

I contend that those of us honest enough to admit to passing at other than the first attempt probably are better drivers because of this rather than in spite of this.

Where I live I can see a bus lane. It only operates between 4-30pm and 6pm Monday through Friday...yet even at 3 in the morning drivers will avoid it. Tell me those people care about driving. Waiting for one of my daughters to get home one night I counted 70% of drivers avoiding the bus lane at 3 in the morning!! I fear most drivers are lemmings. And yet a fair proportion passed first time.

Or those drivers who waiting at traffic lights to turn right will not move forward of the line on green until they can cross over...probably first time passers also.

So, to all of you who passed first time...well done...but I fervently hope you didn't stop learning at that point.

Rant over.

I wish I had failed first time now

 

[JasM]

Passed first time at 17.