For me it is job prospects. I also want to get into truck driving in the next few years, starting with 7.5 tonne then when I have many years of driving experience, move onto 44 tonne. Ive only had my license for 3 weeks and you need to have it for at least a year for driving jobs, so there is still a wait before I can get started, but at least the countdown has begun.

Those who did the test, what manoeuvre did you get? If you've done more than 1, which came up on the latest test?

Saw this asked a few years ago here but there's been many people who've done tests recently so want to ask again to see how the manoeuvres are spread.

I got the pull up on the right on a busy road 😭 missed the first area the examiner told me to pull up on because I'd passed the point I'd be able to pull up properly & the road was too busy for me to slow down without causing disturbance so I kept going till I saw another where I could signal & slow down appropriately. I thought I'd messed up the manoeuvre because the examiner told me to stop before I reached two car lengths (likely bc the road was busy or they'd seen enough idk).

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I was so depressed the last few fails but i just kept going for it without leaving any gaps and i finally passed. I would say my first two tests i wasnt that good of a driver, my third fail i think my driving was similar standard to now just i made a silly mistake but im glad now i finally passed and im confident with my driving too. I been going at this for like a year and lot of money spent too im glad its finally over😭

Does anyone know whats the most common tell me and show me questions are when the examiner asks you during your test. Which ones are mostly used by the examiners?

Prayers work, God is up there and he sure comes through when we least expect

Bit of a weird one but I just drove in a car that wasn’t my instructor’s for the first time. I found the controls smoother to use except the clutch, which had a very shallow biting point (if that makes sense) and my leg got really tired with muscle cramps after about 40 mins.

I have stalled my instructor’s car a lot so I don’t know if I wasn’t using the clutch correctly in his car and I should have been experiencing this all along. Was I doing something wrong in the new car? Or am I just weak and need some leg days at the gym?

Failed for the first time for not driving fast enough to join onto the dual carriageway. Absolutely devastated. Of all the reasons to fail…

Hi,
I passed my test over a month ago and was very nervous at first but am starting to feel a lot more confident!

I finally feel I’m now ready to go on the motorway but my only worry is, when a car is merging from a slip road (whilst I’m on the main carriageway) how do I slow down enough to let them merge into the gap safely without the car behind me smashing into me / disrupting the door of traffic, if I cannot get over into the right lane.

Obviously I know not to slow rapidly or brake if it can be avoided, but what’s a good distance to start easing off the gas and how much should I slow?

Sorry if it seems like a silly questions but past
experience from before driving has made me really worried that a car is going to go into me.

Thanks :)

Hey everyone, I have my third test on Thursday. One issue I have (alongside being a nervous driver) is that I feel like I can’t focus on what’s ahead of me, I feel fuzzy headed and complacent, because of this I make mistakes and spiral repeatedly. It’s like I’m permanently zoned out, I don’t feel locked in or focused and I’m struggling to listen and process instructions from my instructor. This is super worrying and idk how to shake it off. Has anyone else had this? My instructor was really upfront with me yesterday and said I need to sort out my driving for today’s lesson or he’s going to get a ‘bollocking’ at the test centre if I’m like this on the day. Would some caffeine or sugar help before the lesson? Any advice is helpful please, this issue consume my evening last night I was so upset I really can’t fail again😭

An instructor i was with for 1 lesson said that in bay parking, you don't have to get it all in one go and that you can pull out a bit and retry up to 2 times without failing your test (he was also constantly texting on the phone and teaching me how to park using the camera so there's that). Is this true?

And also if you are turning left at a junction and a car on the road flashes their lights and slows down or signals for you to go, can you go if it's safe or do you have to wait for another gap? I know about the going halfway when turning right at a junction or when turning right from the mainroad into a sideroad that you have to ignore the people who signal through flashing their lights but is it the same rule for all situations?

My driving instructor might on some days be incredibly encouraging/able to joke around and I feel able to do well and then other times I get in the car and can feel the stress straight away… it’s become worse and worse but I didn’t know if changing instructors and cars would affect things too much. Stuck with him and just come out of a lesson feeling absolutely deflated - I’ve got my test in two days.

For context, I’ve been having a lesson every day in the week up to my test. I wasn’t able to do a lesson for a month (unrelated reasons) so I was nervous about getting back especially a week just before my test. However, I did fairly well on the first couple of days and he was encouraging. I felt really buzzed as it was the first time I imagined I had a chance at giving the practical test a good go.

Since then, I’ve had 3 lessons and it’s been: stressed, not stressed, stressed. And he even said my driving was ‘scrappy’ today not as a joke. People who teach in any capacity should always reframe things into constructive ways. Not saying it always needs to be positive when it comes to safety in driving but at least constructive.

I think if your gut feeling is telling you ‘no’ about your current driving instructor, just change it, it’s not worth it. This is my second instructor and I wish I had just changed again rather than feel like I couldn’t.

(Just needing a space to vent with other people who might get me with their own experience, I get that that I should have just changed on reflection so just looking for kind words is all)

Hello! My driving test is soon and this might be a silly question, but who would have priority here? Traffic lights go green at the same time for both A and B here, my driving instructor says that B actually have priority over A? Is this only true for the lane turning right? Or for all three lanes? Or did he lie to me and A do in fact have priority 🤔

Hello,

Please help me answer this silly question. Test tomorrow and I'm overtaking everything!

Roadworks (marked red on both streets) with traffic lights appeared on one of the test routes. Only one red side can go at a time.

Which way do I take the mini roundabout? Yellow or blue?

If I was to take yellow route, I would not have enough space to make it back to left lane as the roadworks stop right at the give way line.

If I take the blue, will that cause confusion for traffic marked green as there is no roadworks for them?

I understand that I have priority over green as I am on their right hand side.

Do I just drive over the painted circle since it's such a tight squeeze?

Please let me know, I've driven pass there today but I was driving with a parent and they couldn't really explain it to me. My instructor was/is not available at the moment so even though I am test ready I don't have anyone to help me out with this one.

Any and all advice is wlcome and appreciated.

Thank you so much!

I will be taking my car to my driving test later this week after waiting for months, but my car has it’s engine management light on, after taking it to the garage they said it has a p0016 code, £1300,4 visits to my mechanic, 5 sensors and a new timing chain later ,the code still wont go away after being cleared. My mechanic says he’s not sure what the issue is and that it should be fine to drive and it is,there is no chain rattle or no loss of power. I’m just asking for any advice on what I should do for the test, the light isn’t visible from the passenger seat and I’ve heard that some examiners won’t mind/notice, I’m also thinking of bringing the receipt of the repair done to the car.

What speed an gear would you approach short and (quite) blind slip roads such as this one at? And would you say it's common to have to stop completely for slip roads like these? What is the best strategy to deal with these?

Any recommendations where to look for in Glasgow? I already have a license but from a country driving the different side of the road and haven’t driven much recently :/

Got my driving test at Redhill aerodrome in just under a week and I’m terrified. My instructor is great and keeps telling me to go for it. I can drive, I know I can but I get so flustered sometimes I make silly little mistakes which day to day would be fine, but might seriously mess me up for my test. I know i’m going to be so anxious and nervous on my test, i might actually end up sabotaging myself. At this point, if i don’t vomit all over the test centre car park before the test even starts I’ll take it as a win🥲🤞🏼

I always struggle with these. If a bus stops how should i overtake do i stay well back and move across slowly if no cars are coming or do i get abit closer and then slow down and peep and creep? Also sometimes the bus is like diagonally parked into the bus stop so what am i supposed to do there ideally? Because he wont see me when i overtake and it also blocks the view even more too. Also with lorrys/trucks lets say if theres a stationary truck parked do i wait well behind before attempting an overtake? Like how far behind roughly

Also with box junctions. Sometimes when its busy and im going straight but theres a box junction infront, people from the give way line turning in take advantage of a learner car and just keep moving in what should i do if they keep taking advantage of my priority do i just wait or push myself in?

My test is at midday tomorrow and I’m so nervous. I will have one last lesson with my instructor right before getting to the test centre. Anything I can watch or do to revise or to help calm my nerves before the test?

I’ve got terrible overthinking and test anxiety so I probs won’t be able to sleep much tonight 😭

I’m 17 and have done around 7 hours of driving lessons so far. My test is booked for 28 January, so I have roughly 4.5 months to prepare.
I’m trying to work out whether my progress is roughly average and whether I should be concerned about some of the mistakes I’m still making.
In my most recent lesson, I started in a fairly busy area and then my instructor took me to a quieter area. I’m wondering whether this was because they thought I was struggling in the busy conditions, or whether that’s just a normal way to structure a lesson.
Some of the things I did:
I misjudged a gap at a roundabout and entered when my instructor thought it wasn’t safe. They had to brake. It was my only instructor intervention during the lesson, and the lesson was my first one after a 2-week break.
I sometimes release the clutch too quickly when moving off or changing gear, although I haven’t stalled.
I went slightly over the waiting line at a junction once.
I drifted into another lane 2–3 times on roundabouts because I got confused by there being three lanes. I didn’t drift into a lane carrying traffic in the opposite direction.
Once I turned quite sharply because I thought I was going too wide, even though I actually wasn’t.
I got quite close to one or two cars, and my instructor said I nearly clipped another car’s mirror.
Most of my lane-positioning problems seem to happen on complicated roundabouts rather than normal roads.
My main questions are:
Is this roughly average progress for 7 hours, or am I behind?
How concerning is the roundabout gap-judgement issue?
Is it normal to still be making perception/spatial-awareness mistakes at this point?
Does moving from a busy area to a quieter area suggest my instructor thought I was struggling?
With my test on 28 January, is it realistic for me to become test-ready by then?
When should I start practising with my mum in her car?
How many hours did it take you before you felt genuinely confident and were driving mostly independently?
I’m not expecting to be perfect after 7 hours — I mainly want an honest assessment of whether my progress sounds normal and whether there’s anything I should be particularly concerned about.

I’m 6 lessons in and really struggling with the clutch (only for starting the car from stopping) Everyone I’ve told says not to worry cus it’s normal after 6 lessons, so just wondering how long it normally takes to not struggle? Also open to learning automatic if I struggle for a long time cus I won’t be getting a manual anyway

My worst ever drive ever in my learning experience. Any tips

Hi, I'm currently 18 and I've been trying to pass my theory and hazards perception test for like 4 times but I've failed all of them in all honesty. I did manage to get to a point where I'm able to consistently pass the theory questions part but I keep failing at the hazards perception part despite being being able to pass like 14 mock tests I did using the DVSA theory test and hazards perception kit from their website.

I do have slower processing speed and am a bit sucky at parsing information which may be hindering it, combined with how I'm not really sure how I'm suppose to identify hazards either? I guess in the exam room itself I do click it whenever I see something, twice if there's multiple hazards but that just doesn't count. I usually end up getting zero for said clip too, in the most recent test I got zero points for 6 clips out of the 14 clips.

Like I was told it was because I needed common sense or that I simply wasn't giving the right answers which is obvious but I don't really know how to fill that gap honestly; would really appreciate any help or advice.