Did you pass your driving test 1st time?

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Agent_Violet

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i failed my driving test the first time (DAMN YOU PARALLEL PARKING!!) but I passed my motorcycle test the first time...which is a miracle bc it was WAY harder than the driving test.
 
WeirdyMcGee

WeirdyMcGee

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I didn't get any professional driving instruction; I did pass my first time though.
I'm one of maybe 5 people I know who passed the first time.
Most people end up having to take it at least twice.

I'd already been driving since I was 12, though... so it wasn't a big deal for me.
 
coyote

coyote

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way back when...

at my school, Driver's Education was a required course in 9th grade

then everyone had to do the driving part during the summer right after

if you passed the course, at the end you were given your certificate to take to the DMV to get your license

i don't know anyone who didn't pass
 
Pyrophosphate

Pyrophosphate

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I did all my practice driving in a Grand Am. Probably 3 or 4 total hours of practice (they want 30 hours). When I actually took the driving test, I was not in the Grand Am, but an Escalade, with seat warmers and all that fanciful noise. I couldn't find the button/lever/pullstring/whatever that controls the parking brake, the plates were one month expired, and the gas pedal was touchy as ****. An Escalade is quite a bit bigger than a Grand Am, so parking and stopping at stop lines and crap were weird and difficult to coordinate. Luckily, the testing person couldn't find a spot big enough for an Escalade to parallel park, so I didn't have to do it. At one point I was doing 35 in a 25. I thought breaking the law was an instant fail, but I guess that's why I don't work there.

I passed, somehow, on the first try. Must have been the seat warmers. The lady's biggest complaint wasn't that I broke the law or had no feel for the size of the vehicle, but that when I checked my mirrors and crap (she acknowledged that I did check them), I apparently didn't turn my head enough for her tastes.
 
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lilmutegirl

lilmutegirl

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I took driver's ed and didn't have to take the test to get my license. I'm glad, because I probably would've wrecked the car and not passed, because I'd be so anxious. I hope I never have to take a driving test. I can easily pass the written test.
I know I'm a better driver than some people: one of the guys who was driving with me one day (when I was really tired and fell asleep in the back seat), hit a curb and woke me up. I was the best driver of the 3 of us in the car that day, and the instructor asked the other 2 if they felt safe with me driving. They said yes (of course, I didn't collide with any objects, so I'm sure that helped). That was my last day of driver's ed and the instructor told me I could get my license, even though I told him I thought I needed more practice and didn't feel comfortable driving alone. He didn't listen. Much like my mother on many subjects...
There was also one guy in my class who was still circling cones in the parking lot while the rest of us were on the highway...the idea of him driving on actual streets made me nervous.
 
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