Reasons you didn’t pass your driving test

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DS a bit down as he took his test today, and didn’t pass. Apparently the reason he failed was because he was on a dual carriageway, inside lane, quite busy and not that fast, when everyone in the outside lane suddenly braked and slowed right down. He was penalised for undertaking.

It did seem a bit unlucky, but his teacher said they are very picky these days.

I was wondering if anyone else, or their DCs, missed out for one error like this.

I failed due to the same reason as your DS! They marked it down as a serious.
Passed the second time with flying colours! Tell him to do it again! Never give up.

I failed first time because I called someone a "wanker". Someone opened his driver door just as I was overtaking causing me to swerve. The tester guy said I did well to avoid the hazard but shouldn't swear.

The second time I failed because I crashed into a bollard.

On my third test, I found myself being followed by a group of DP's friends. They were flashing me, doing wanker signs at me, and then started blasting ridiculous music very loud to try and put me off. They're dicks.
Anyway, I passed and the tester guy said I did very well to not get distracted

Thanks SlimmingMumOf1, he is taking quite philosophically today and has quite enjoyed reading some of these fails. It does help to know you’re not the only one it’s happened to.

I don't drive but my son has his third test tomorrow.

First time he failed because his vision was obscured by a van at a junction, he edged out eventually (his instructor said that the car behind was beeping the horn which put him under pressure) and pulled out on a car. Both stopped in time, no damage was done but obviously it was a fail.

Second time he was driving along a road which is mainly double yellow lines with just breaks either side of a few driveways which are always parked on during the day as it's by a school without enough parking for staff. He was told to pull over where it was safe to do so but he got to the point where he was coming to a junction and was running out of road to park on so panicked and pulled over onto double yellows. He'd done fine up until then and was just five minutes from the test centre too.

I passed first time but on mock tests did several of these - used to be terrified of roundabouts and would sit at them for ages until I was being beeped

1st because I was told to 'just come out of here and turn left into the junction' from the test centre car park which was apparently the official reverse around the corner bit, and then later on because I drove through a completely unmarked junction on a residential street.

Three cancellation between 1 and 2 due to forgetting my counterpart license, the horn not working on my instructors' car, and snow

2nd because I messed up the parallel park and cried the whole way through the rest of the test. Not one minor.

2 more cancellations due to bad weather or something else I can't remember. But my driver instructor was a psychopath and kept making me cry. Got a new (lovely) instructor the day before. I used my old instructor's boss's car for test 3, who said to me "well, I'll see you next week after you've failed, OldInstructor says you're shite" and made me drop him off at his ex's house on the way to the test.

3rd I passed

Someone failed for calling another driver a wanker?? I have my test in a couple of weeks and this thread is making me slightly nervous

Signalling for a right turn too far away from the actual turning point.

After completing the test drive on my first test without an error I I pulled up in front of a hedge in the car park and barely touched it with the bonnet. The instructor said "you'd passed up until that point but that could have been a child". He failed me. It took me a further three efforts to pass. That was 30 years ago and I still remember his exact words.

1st time I treated a stop sign like a give way sign.

2nd time round I hadn’t re-revised the Highway Code after the first time and couldn’t remember any of it.

Passed 3rd time.

First test - barging my way over a one way bridge as I was scared of stalling and didn't want to stop!

2nd test - cutting up a bus on a roundabout

3rd test- reversing onto the curb ( when doing a reverse around a corner)

4th test - can't remember but I do remember crying all the way home

5th test - the examiner came from the same village as me and I passed!

I passed second time, my first test was a fail because I didn't check my mirrors before my emergency stop, then didn't check them again before pulling away, it was about half way through the test, but the examiner made me go straight back to the test centre!

Second time was a pass, but with 11 minors

I failed spectacularly, because I trumped

I was so nervous and it just slipped out. Windows were shut at the time, examiner quickly wound his down.

Lost my nerve completely at that point and after a 9 point turn because I just fluffed it, he made me return to the test centre

my first test was a fail because I didn't check my mirrors before my emergency stop

Sounds like another improper failure. For the emergency stop test, when the examiner shouts stop you stop. It's simulating a situation where you need to stop as quickly as possible, if you check your mirrors first that is a fault. The examiner is responsible for checking there's nobody behind before calling stop.

It was 1984 so things may have changed a bit, but I failed for not keeping my hands at "ten to two" on the steering wheel while stationary stuck in a traffic jam for 15 minutes I let them slip down to "twenty to four"!!