How many attempts to pass your driving test?

[Ade B]

First time car and bike.

Can't remember how old - 17 and a bit for the car, 30 something for bike.


Ade

 

[macscrooge]

First time, although it was cancelled three times due to snow (winter of 1982/3)

 

[pamrit]

First time in a MK11 Escort

 

[MoonWalker]

Second time same as my twin - although on different days

 

[Gridlock]

I passed first time and had no lessons.

I tought myself to drive in a Robin Reliant (which you can drive by yourself on L plates)

Is this still true?

I love the idea of a load of 17 year old kids graduating from mopeds to Robins..

 

[Shude]

Is this still true?

I love the idea of a load of 17 year old kids graduating from mopeds to Robins..

I'm sure a quick check would reveal the answer but I think you can drive a 3-wheeler at 16 years old!

 

[lynall]

Bike second time as i forgot the L plates
Car 1st time.
Class 1 truck 1st time.



Lynall

 

[ringway]

I passed first time and had no lessons.

I tought myself to drive in a Robin Reliant (which you can drive by yourself on L plates)

Mrs Ringway's brother did the teach yourself thing in one of these.

Ended up nose skywards in a ditch. Fibreglass everywhere. LOL!

 

[Gollom]

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.

Can you imagine that happening nowadays? The Dail Mail would have a field day! :bannana:

And come on Mr. Walker - who walked in front with a red flag for YOUR test?

 

[PJH]

In those days , you had to wait a month for another appointment and I passed on my second attempt .

I do think that removing the requirement to wait a month , thereby ensuring that a candidate who failed the first test had to undertake further tuition/gain more experience , was a bad decision : nowadays , a candidate who fails a test in the morning , secures a further test later the same day and passes is not neccessarily a better driver than they were in the morning - not a good move IMHO .

You can book a re-test on the day you fail but it has to be 10 working days between tests.

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

Handbrake is not essential in T.I.R. only good control of the vehicle.


The DSA does not record whether it is the candidate's 1st, 2nd or nth attempt, just a pass or fail.The National pass rate is 48%.
The poll results on this thread are quite believable. Ten passes is 10 people, ten fails may only be 2 or 3 people who have a problem under test conditions.

An L test is only a snap shot of a pupil's driving.
Lots of learners get robbed of a pass because other drivers cut them up.

 

[Gareth]

First time

 

[s500colin]

First Time 8 lessons in a Mk2 escoet but started off road at 14 in our old mk1 transit

 

[PJH]

First time 104 67.53%
Second time 34 22.08%
Third time 12 7.79%

So 150 people have taken 208 tests, 72% pass rate.

 

[oorjim2]

Car 2nd time 1979
Bus 1st time 1992
Ontario BZ 1st time 2007
ADI 1st time 2009



Jim.

 

[robjmurdoch]

Car 2nd time at 17 years and 5 months old!

Bike DA 1st time at 21!

 

[jeremy 2516]

Car : 1st time @ 17 years & 9 days driving a Morris 1100 .
Bike : 1st time @ 26 Years old riding a Yamaha 250F

Up to about 15 years ago I had an "All Groups" licence .

 

[PJH]

ADI 1st time 2009


Jim.

Another ADI !!

 

[oorjim2]

Yip afraid so.


Jim.

 

[benj]

second time twice.

i was on the road in my mini clubman at 17 years 2 months and 8 days.

 

[renault12ts]

Bump