How many times did it take for you to pass your driving?

[Singhamh]

I only learnt automatic. I passed on my 3rd attempt.

Turn in the road & parallel park - both faves of mine!

Passed 7th time ( am I the record holder?)
In my defence I didn't do them all one after the other. They were in batches, before university ( failed twice) after university ( failed twice) and the passed 3rd time when I started learning again a few years after starting work. A lot of it ( particularly the later fails) was due to really bad nerves I think.

I’ve passed twice. Once in my home country, bang on the day I turned 16. Then I had to learn how to drive in the UK and drive a manual at 30. I passed first time both times, but my test at 16 was pathetically easy (just drove around a car park, not even on a road, and I couldn’t parallel park 😂 somehow they passed me). At 30, I’d obviously had the advantage of 15 years of driving experience, though with different rules and I had to learn manual.

1st in a manual when I was 17

First time which I was shocked by.

3rd

The first one I failed for not stopping a manouver to allow a car to pass.

The second one I was given the same manouver at the same spot and failed for stopping to allow a car to pass.

3rd time I got a different manouver and passed.

4 in a manual age 19 and no theory in those days

2

Passed 1st time in a manual at 17. My Dad used to take me out driving an awful lot which helped enormously. I only paid for 3 lessons before the test, this was in the late 90s.

1st, at 17yrs 6m. If you grew up in rural Lincolnshire you made damned sure you passed as soon as possible.

I passed first time, in a manual.

Like others, mine was in the 1980s before the days of theory tests. The examiner just asked a few questions at the end of the test.

I had to reverse round a corner, do a three point turn and a hill start. No parallel parking in those days. We were also supposed to do an emergency stop but I had to do a real one when an idiot pulled out right in front of me, so the examiner said he wouldn’t ask me to do another!

Passed second time, nearly crashed into a milk float on my first 😬🤣

I passed first time and so did DH, DS1 and DD. The pressure's on for DS2!

No. I failed more times than that. It took me ages and a change of instructor to conquer my nerves. My legs used to shake uncontrollably from the knees downwards and I struggled to operate the pedals. I eventually passed in a manual vehicle at the centre which statistically had the fifth highest failure rate in the country.

Passed 1st time when I was 17, passed in a manual.

Ten lessons ! Dd has had nine I think, and is not anywhere near test level. Were they hour long lessons ? As googling says it takes at least 40 hours plus twenty something hours of private practise. So forty lessons, which seems a lot but multiple sites were saying the same.

First time, but it was in Cyprus, decades ago, and at around the same time I heard of someone who’d passed after driving through a red light. Apparently the examiner said, ‘Remember next time!’

Had to take a U.K. test after a year back home, also 1st time, after some prep. lessons with an ex police instructor. He once made me do a hill start half a dozen times. I’d thought I was doing it perfectly, until he eventually said, ‘You didn’t look over your shoulder. That would have been an instant fail.’

Passed first time in a manual car aged 17. My dad was a driving instructor so I felt immense pressure to pass first time! All the free lessons definitely helped.

First time with no errors. I was in my 30s, had 7 weeks of lessons and desperately needed to pass.

DD has just passed on her 2nd attempt. She failed for hesitation on her first, got another slot a week later. She's 17.

I reckon I found it easier than DD has.

Failed twice at 17, went to uni and picked it up again at 25/26. Passed 3rd time with 3 minors.

My sister drove off with the handbrake on at the start of her test - she passed first time though. That was pre theory test days. I remember hearing about the daughter of a driving instructor who took the test on her 17th birthday and passed.

3rd for me but I wasn’t ready the first time- tried to rush it before leaving for uni!

First time, but...

I had a whole year of lessons first. I had a test booked, but my instructor cancelled it after I went backwards following my dad's pal taking me out in the car (while dad sat in the back - he didn't drive).

I passed the re-booked test.

First time, age 17. Living rurally made me determined to do it.

Had ten lessons paid for by my parents, but I had a boyfriend (later DH) who had a car, and I drove everywhere when we went out.

God is misremembered, thought it was 7 😂 I passed third time with two minors but had 7 instructors and took 7 years as moved house/cities so much!