I'm 16 and my permit is about to expire, so I figure I should probably hurry up and get my license.
Problem is, it's been almost a year since I took drivers ed, so my skills aren't that sharp, and I get pretty nervous when I drive with even just a parent for practice. I've started to practice again, but a mixture of lack of skill/knowledge and nerves hold me back from doing well.
If I can get a list of things that driving instructors usually test on, or what a lot of people have problems with during tests, that would be a big help to me.
Can anyone help?
In the UK you can buy a book with the syllubus that you will be tested on, should have one where you are too I should imagine? Get hold of one and make sure you can do each thing properly
they test on how well you can drive. i.e. control the car and how well you obey the driving rules
My driver's test was a good 13 years ago, so the experience is kind of fuzzy, but I remember that I took the test right on the DMV grounds (I didn't have to drive in town or anything). Basically, he was testing whether I would drive the speed limit, and maintain a steady speed, that I could brake smoothly, that I knew how to use the blinkers. The hardest part of the test was the parallel parking, which I still SUCK at to this day, but I somehow passed that part on the test on a fluke.
My advice to you is to practice parallel parking.
General driving advice: You have to be confident and decisive, but NEVER cocky. And if people drive like complete dicks, don't get angry…don't make the situation worse by succumbing to road rage. It solves nothing. Your goal is to get where you are going 1) alive, and 2) without making your car insurance sky rocket (your car insurance is going to be high enough as it is considering that you are a young male).
Good Luck!
they watch your reaction to other cars ,they also test on reaction time,and how well you judge distance when stopping,as well as how much attention you pay to the road and the amount of times you check in the mirrors for traffic along side of you or behind you,and they also watch to see if your nervous,they,ll observe you how you brake and how well you take off from a dead stop,and they,ll also check when your parking also,the best thing you can do is be as calm as possible when taking the test,the more nervous you get the more likely you will mess up ,just be calm,and remember everything you read in the book and you should do alright,just think of them as an ordinary person,setting beside of you,and you,ll do ok with it,good luck on it i hope you pass it.
Nervousness is expected by the Instructor's, they test mainly on how well you overcome that, since driving skills are pretty simple to learn, so that's what you've got to overcome is your nervousness and you can do that by relaxing your mind and not giving in to those distractions. If you know the book, the material and the skills well enough, then you will prevail and pass. If you collapse to your nerves it can escalate into each task and you can fail badly. basically if you just have average intelligence, then it just becomes a battle against nerves. Make it simple and focus and imagine yourself by yourself!