I did my first test last November and failed as well, after a couples months practice. It was pretty depressing. I haven't stepped behind the wheel since.
I decided to take lessons again in the next month, and hopefully it works out this time.
FYI, if you're doing it in a stick, I think missing a gear is an automatic fail and I got docked for putting it in neutral at a light.
Putting it in neutral at a light was an automatic fail for me when I took my advanced test. He said he would have failed me as well if it weren't for that because I was going slower than the speed limit on Deerfoot because it was raining so hard I could barely see and all the other cars were going the same speed as me. I was not impressed.
That was a year ago for me. I passed the first time to get my GDL but I've just been too lazy to retake the test to get rid of my GDL. Next time I'll just probably take my truck because I can parallel park that better than my car.
I definitely took my car out of gear at a red light during the test and she never failed me. I can't remember the exact situation though as it was a while ago. Maybe she was being nice? I did it in 2010 I believe.
I passed the first time but I didn't have to parallel park for some reason. I had heard that my tester was a relief instructor. I got multiple demerits for never shoulder checking on my right when making a right turn. I was looking, but not making it obvious to him.
I failed my class 6 the first try for just bypassing the left turning lane when it was clear and moving directly into the traveling lane. Dumb.
It's perplexing how many kids I know are not interested in getting their license now. Why is that? At age 13 that's all I thought about for 3 years. I bought a POS car when I was 15 and washed it every three days, sat in the driveway listening to the stereo, and constantly lifted the hood just to look at the engine. I tortured myself like that for over a year until I could actually drive it. But, wow, was it worth it.
It's perplexing how many kids I know are not interested in getting their license now. Why is that?
I think it's partly because kids don't have to travel to see friends anymore. Before you used to have to travel a bit to interact with your friends, but these days a lot of their interaction and entertainment options are online. That and kids seem to just be driven everywhere, so there's no need to do it themselves.
Passed it the first time. My parents motivated me by saying that they'd pay for the first time, and any other attempts were out of my pocket. As a broke 16 yo, that was good motivation.
So after two months straight of driving practice once-a-day and brimming with confidence, I go into my first attempt this morning and promptly fail.
Why? Because I was turning right on a red-just-turned-green light and didn't yield for a dog walker lady across the street. What a stupid dumb ass rookie mistake...
I always check, always. Except my eyes were on the light and my head was still stuck on "Right turn at the lights, please" from my examiner.
Despite being assured that it's not the end of the world and lots of people fail the first time, I still feel pretty depressed and despairing. Not the 'taken down a few notches' kind, the rock bottom kind.
I mean I practiced like every day (even weekends) learning to handle a terrible-handling minivan to the point where it was like an extension of my body, I was so sure I'd pass the 1st time. Is this normal, feeling like utter failure? How many times did everyone take to pass?
I know a guy who failed three times and there are multiple people I know who failed once atleast..
I failed once or twice can't remember as it was 18 years ago. I think the first was a bunch of missed shoulder checks, and the second was a parallel park I scraped the curb (auto fail). I do however remember my first drive alone when I did pass.
I think the bigger question is driving record since. Mine has been spotless save a speeding ticket I got in 1998.
Keep at it, as others have said there are bigger failures in life.
My son booked his road test for his G license. He's been driving for about a year with his G2. He took my car which is a stick and got docked for not gearing down at every red light. Lol I never even taught him that I always just put it in neutral and brake. It didn't even occur to me that would be an issue.
Yup, that's gotta be the source of why there's so many horrible drivers...that one examiner who was friends with my instructor
FYI, i thought green text wasn't needed anymore
I didn't mean your specific instructor and examiner were the cause for all bad drivers. I meant that situation is a reason for a ton of bad drivers. It's not an uncommon occurrence, and other posters mentioned similar situations.
You've posted some bat feces crazy things here over the years and were serious, so this didn't seem out of the realm of possibility of being serious.
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I remember watching Canada's worst driver and a girl on there said she paid off her instructor. She was from a Edmonton. That, combined with this thread (not the people failing, but people paying off instructors) explains a lot of why Alberta has some of the worst drivers in Canada.
I was fortunate to pass mine in the first try and there was no GdL, (Ya i'm old)
I did fail my eye test for my learners... identifying my myopic problem.
My daughter went through drivers ed and went for her test and failed. She lost a lot of confidence.
We spent the next summer working on her driving skills. We identified flaws and worked to eliminate them. (this is very hard with family) I have training experience and it is much easier when you are not emotionally involved.
Practice makes perfect. Good luck. If you need help/ mentorship I will do what I can to help if it fits within my schedule.
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Failed twice. First time I had scheduled the test the day after grad and it was pouring out. First off, I have no idea what I was thinking scheduling it after grad, secondly, there was so much rain I couldn't really see out of my side windows and bumped the curb when parallel parking. Second time I apparently didn't stop long enough at a stop sign, even though I S-T-O-P at the sign.
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Graduated Driver's License. You can drive by yourself but there are different conditions than a full license. Like zero tolerance for alcohol, takes less demerits to get your license suspended.. stuff like that. To get your full license you have to be suspension free for 2 years and pass an "advanced road test".
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