I'm so so upset.
I've got young children and it would make our lives so much easier.
I've been practising for a year, have taken well over 60 hours of lessons, mock tests all go brilliantly well and then I fail the real test.
I can't keep paying out for these tests as well as the instructors time but we have an automatic yet thought best to learn manual in case I ever need to change although after this last awful test today I'm thinking of buying the manual first so I can at least not have to pay the instructor again.
The first test was last month and just awful, I was so nervous , the instructor didn't talk at all, my nerves were shot to pieces with him and I missed a mini roundabout completely, bumped the kerb doing a turn in the road and then forgot to do the blind spot check as we pulled off so 3 majors ( no bloody minors! )
Today I got the guy who passes everyone my instructor said, he was lovely, chatted the whole way, I thought it had gone brilliantly and then he said id failed!
3 minors for gears and 1 major.
The major was for after doing my emergency stop, even though I checked all around me, in the distance was another car and I should have waited for them to go .
Just feel really shit that at 36 I'm finding this so fucking hard.
Passed the theory first time with 2 wrong answers.
Maybe it's just not meant to be.
AIBU?
To be so upset that I've failed my driving test AGAIN!!!
Lottie10000 · 26/02/2015 16:05
I failed my test so many times i forget how many it actually was - four or fove fails i think? I gave up and just used public transport until a few years ago when I did one of those week long intensive things and passed first time. the examiner said he was particularly impressed with my roundabouts which made my instructor howl because i am to this day shit at roundabouts, i hate them. good luck op, if you can drive you will pass in the end 
I passed after switching test centres and I was on the school run! 
I felt less pressure their for some reason. I also got failed on another car undertaking me on a dual carriageway going about 80 
I was suppose to move into that lane despite him being there and driving like a royal twat and have him hit us up the arse instead I waited till he passed and then moved over into the right lane
Took me 3 attempts to do it too
Don't give up. I'm. learning too and have had many an crisis of confidence after terrible lessons. I still can't see myself being a confident driver or managing more than shopping and school runs. I'm. Not a natural driver at all and I don't usually Fail anything but I'm fully expecting to fail my first driving test in a few weeks.
I believe in you. I know how hard you must have worked to get this far. 
Keep going op!
And remember you are aeons ahead of me, who has had 18hours and is NOWHERE near even trying for my test.
You'll be driving while I'm shaking like a leaf before my first test
MrsK i would urge you to keep at it. I passed my test almost 3 years ago and hated driving but we lived out in a tiny village with a crap bus service. I thought being able to drive would set me free but it didn't. I just couldn't do it once I'd passed my test. Continued with the crap bus, even got a really rubbish job in the village so I didn't have to travel. I hated that job but I stayed for almost 3 years just so I didn't have to drive 
Then DH got a new job so we relocated 150 miles and the DC got a school to far away to walk. I really had no choice but to drive. We got an old clapped out car for me, felt better that way incase I did bang it it was no big deal. I've now been taking the dc to school every day since January. I had to have DH take me out and show me the route, I had to do it half a dozen times on my own and for the first 3 weeks had to take kalms everyday before I got in the car 
. It then took me a month to try and go to the supermarket, which is on the school run anyhow and last week was the first time I'd put fuel in the car myself I still have P plates on the car and I do think it helps although I sometimes feel like a idiot when I pull up at school with them on.
I still don't much like driving but I really don't have much choice and it has become less stressful as the weeks go on and I don't feel sick every morning and afternoon now. I'm hoping by the summer I might be able to manage more than just the school run so we can get out and about during the holidays.
Its been a very slow process for me but it really is worth it so if you can get back out there I would.
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