<p>I am SO MAD at myself. I wasn't nervous starting out, but my tester, who was a retired military veteran, kept saying how nervous I was acting, which actually made me nervous. And at the beginning of the test when he was checking the car, he laughed at the huge dent on the side of it (which I'm not responsible for) and said he understood why I was nervous. He was super intimidating. Ugh. Apparently I didn't look over my shoulder when I made a left turn (I'm almost 100% positive that I did though). And apparently that's considered a critical error (which no one ever told ME!), and my test ended after less than ten minutes. I feel SO INCREDIBLY STUPID! And the worst part is that my mom has me scheduled to take it again tomorrow! I'm so scared I'm going to fail again. And I'm sooooo mad because I'm really not that terrible a driver, but now my mom and everybody else thinks so. I MUST NOT FAIL AGAIN TOMORROW!!! </p>
<p>Lol driving proctors penalize everything. They give you points for things THEY KNOW almost all drivers don’t do all the time and they probably dont do themselves. You have to exaggerate EVERYTHING</p>
<p>Never going to give you up.
Never going to let you down.
Never going to run around and desert you.
Never going to make you cry.
Never going to say goodbye.
Never going to tell a lie and hurt you.</p>
<p>Yeah, one of the Kardashian’s, I think Kendall, was crying because she didn’t signal, mirror, and shoulder when she was turning and she had 3 chances. She passed her next test tho.
My driving instructor made a little song that was like: Signal!, mirror!, shoooullderr~~ hahaha.</p>
<p>Please don’t feel like a failure. How well you did on this test has no bearing on whether you are a good driver or not. Little errors that strike you out on the test, like not being obvious about turning your head, are just minor things that don’t impact your driving in real life.
I think your mom is right to have you take it again tomorrow - if they will let you. Sometimes you have to wait a given period of time. You can do this!</p>
<p>PS- I failed my first test. As soon as I got out of the parking lot, he had me parallel park between two orange cones. I could barely see them, they were so low. And I hit one!
He said, “Pull into the driveway. You effectively just hit a car, and you fail.”
I think I was out all of five minutes.
Anyway, I went back the following week after practicing between cones (I had been using real cars- silly me-) and I passed with a 98%.<br>
Don’t let this get to you. Some of the best drivers I know messed up on the first test.</p>
<p>Hey, it happens. The first time I took my test, I had a proctor who didn’t say more than 2 words to me. It made me feel extremely uncomfortable and anxious. I ended up tapping a cone while parallel parking, which was an automatic failure. However, next time I took it I got an extremely friendly lady administering the test. She kept reassuring me that there was nothing to worry about, and I ended up passing with no errors at all. The second time you take it is always easier. You’ll feel much more relaxed and confident. Trust me.</p>
<p>I took it in the town next to me, this last August, because I heard that our town’s DMV was incredibly strict, and counted off points for everything.</p>
<p>I passed my first try, and the lady said I did a very good job. She wasn’t intimidating or distracting at all, even though I was really nervous. I was most scared about the parallel parking, which I did perfect on. According to her, my only error was that as I was starting the test, and leaving the parking lot, I drove through one of those white stop lines, when I was supposed to stop and wait. Everything else went fine, and I think I picked the best place to do it because ALL the roads I went on were 25. I stayed in the 22-23 range, unlike my town where the road test goes on roads that are 25mph, 35mph, and 45mph. Don’t go too slow (less than 5 below the speed limit) or obviously too fast. </p>
<p>I also think I made a mistake when I was doing the overnight parking. She didn’t say anything and I don’t think it made a difference, but I was so nervous at the time. I pulled over to the side of the road, did the overnight parking correctly, and parked the car. When I put it back into Drive, I forgot the wheel was twisted all the way in one direction, so I bumped into the curb, haha. The lady didn’t mention it at all.</p>
<p>I was freaking out the few days before my test, but it really wasn’t difficult at all. I was finished in about 15 minutes, and I felt so good afterwards.</p>
<p>Good luck, next time review the DMV guideline book and online sites to see what would cause you to automatically fail. </p>
<p>If you didn’t know that not looking over your shoulder was a critical error, then I don’t think you’re ready for your driving test (seriously, driving tests in the US are really easy. It’s much harder in Europe, especially in the Nordic countries). Have you taken classes with a driving instructor before? I would recommend that, it may cost a few hundred dollars, but they know what to look for and can correct mistakes that you didn’t know were mistakes.</p>
<p>The driving test is appallingly easy. You’re allowed 15 non-critical errors and I passed with 0. The test covers easy city driving. There are no challenging maneuvers, highways, freeways, or windy roads. I think the tests should be made harder considering the amount of death caused by traffic collisions.</p>
<p>I knew it was an error. I just didn’t know it was enough for me to fail immediately. And on the score sheet he gave me, checking over the shoulder actually wasn’t on the list of critical errors. No, I’ve never taken any classes. I’m homeschooled so my mom taught me. Like I said, I’m positive I looked over my shoulder. I guess he just didn’t see me do it. Thanks for all the positive support from the other posters. I’ll be sure to really exaggerate my movements tomorrow.</p>