I've received some wonderful advice on this forum over the years so thought I'd give this a shot.
I'd never been interested in driving before, but a few months ago at the age of 35, I decided to learn to drive as my son had just been born & wanted to make life easier for myself & my family.
I've just failed my driving test for the 2nd time. I failed it really badly, kept getting far too close to the curb & hit it a couple of times. I was all over the place, like I'd never driven before. It was so embarrassing.
I drive fine on my lessons & when I go out in the car with the Mrs, but I fall apart on my test. I was so nervous today & assume that was the reason for it, but i'm very down & embarrassed about it. At this stage, I'm open to any advice/suggestions on how to conquer this as it's getting me down??
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I had 8 pints in the Black Horse before the test.....worked a treat.
I took some beta blockers which you can get from your GP and it worked a treat for me as I passed my driving test. Maybe you ought to go down that route?
Second time stalling actually on the roundabout at the top of my road, some where where every lesson I’ve ever had I’ve managed to drive through without problems and ever since has been the same. Just nerves I guess.
Third time I treated it just like any other drive but made sure to check my mirrors a lot more than usual. Passed with just 2 minors.
It must be how half the fools on the road get their license.
All the best
If they are up for it, go one step further and ask the examiner if you can both remove your clothes before your test.
Unorthodox but worth a try.
1. Recreate test scenarios in lessons. Get your instructor to act as the examiner, arrange one off lessons with other instructors acting as examiners. The latter will mentally break the change of some other individual you don’t know sitting in the car. You can’t impact on the actual test but you can impact on your preparation for it and recreation is the best you can probably do.
2. Change your pre test routine, even for psychological benefit. Get a good practice in beforehand, but if you’ve gone straight into test before allow yourself some mental time in between to calm yourself and positively reassure yourself you’ve got this. In your pre test practice, cover the bits you failed on in your previous test.
Hope that helps
The test I passed I actually thought I had failed after 5 minutes so gave up thinking about passing and just drove like it was a lesson which meant I had no nerves and probably the reason I passed.
Have you tried calms or anything like that?
the test is only designed to determine whether you are competent to drive. More precisely, it's intended to check whether you have learned everything you should have. So, in fact, the learning you do is far more important than the test itself. Once you have learned everything, to the very best of your ability, you will know you're in the right position to be tested and to pass the test. So it's far more important to be prepared than to "perform" well on the day.
My advice, therefore, is to make sure you have thoroughly learned every aspect of driving that is relevant; that you're certain you know you can do everything in the test; that you know everything you need to know, that you're totally confident in your own ability to do everything you need to do and that you know you can cope with everything that might happen.
You will then enter the test knowing you have done every bit of preparation that is required and that all you're going to do is to demonstrate you can drive. You won't worry about anything that might happen, because you can cope with it. And all that's going to happen is for one person you don't know to find out that you're really good at driving.
Last thing: make sure that when you take the test again, your mindset is simply that you are completely competent at driving and all you're going to do is to allow someone else to find out; but that, if for some reason it doesn't work this time, that's not a problem, because it will work the next time. If you prepare well enough, you are *bound* to pass.
Took to it really well yet just couldnt get that pass mark ... first time I accepted that I rightly failed yet the other three I felt it was harsh treatment from the Examiners as they were for little things yet nerves didnt help, yet just kept rebooking as knew I'd get there in the end - What am trying to say is you'll get there eventually, everyone is different when it comes to passing and you shouldnt worry, my Wife took nine attempts for example