Why can't I pass my driving test?

[dontcallmehon]

Failed my third driving test today. Am putting a brave face on it, but I feel a bit fed up, particularly when dh seems to think it is a big joke (he passed his third test). I am starting to lose faith and think that I may never do it. It is also costing a fortune!

First test went really well with only a few minors, up until the point near the end of the test when I pulled in, went to straighten up and hit the kerb :(

Second test, got quite a lot of faults really. 12 minor (all for different things) and 2 serious - 1 for making a car slow down when I changed lanes and for not seeing a car which had to wait when I was doing a three point turn.

Third test, had hynotherapy to help with my nerves on the day. Don't know if helped really, I was still horribly nervous. Got 8 faults in total, two serious - again for changing lanes and one for being in the wrong lane. I had changed to a different test centre to get an earlier test date and I really didn't know the routes very well. No excuse, I know - I should have been better guided by the road markings.

Just feel so rubbish - got test number 4 booked at the test centre I'm most familiar with, but I'm really starting to wonder if I'll ever do it. My instructor thinks I'm a good driver and I don't seem to make those mistakes on my lessons, but the thought of the test makes me feel sick. Ironically, I think it's actually getting harder the more attempts I take, as there is more internal pressure to pass - as I don't want to have yet another failure!

Please give me hope that it will happen one day :( I didn't tell anyone apart from dh about this test, which is good in one way, but I neeed sympathy :(

I’m getting sick of it now, I’ve just recently failed my 5th test! I’m a safe and good driver but I don’t know what is going wrong😴. My tests have been harshly booked down by the examiner they are such pricks!
I just feel like giving up, the DVSA are a money making scheme robbing people of their hard earned money!
I just feel like pure shit like nothing matters anymore.
It pisses me off so much that I need to pass badly because I need a car for college and work but yet these other drivers who have passed are horrendous drivers and so unsafe! I’m 18 and I seriously contemplating life because all I do is fail at everything no matter if I give it my all I always fail😔

Defeatedkid1999 - you're 18! You have the world at your feet, sweetheart please don't feel despondent - you have your young age on your side.

It's my birthday tomorrow. I'm going to be 45. Would you believe I started learning to drive nearly 3 years ago. My theory ran out in Jan if this year. 5 tests failed. I only work part time, OH was funding all my lessons & tests. He's reluctant now to throw anymore money at it. We just haven't got the spare cash at the moment. I'm embarrassed for myself - people keep asking 'have you passed your test yet?' I feel like telling them to fuck off. Every test i did I got less than 3 minors, obviously 1 serious to fail. Last test it was clean sheet, just 1 serious because I hesitated at a cross junction. I might get back into it when I'm ready, it's crushing though being told you've failed.

All I know is that I wish I had learnt to drive when I was your age, I really really do. It's so much harder when you're older, please please don't give up.

I am a mother of three young children. i need advice on what to do about practical driving test. i took my 11th driving test yesterday and still failed. I am very depressed and unhappy at the moment and i do not know what to do. please has anyone heard or seen anybody who had taken practical driving test 11 times and still have not passed? My instructor keep saying that i drive very well but i keep failing. Should i continue trying or give up? I need as many advice as possible. Thank you!

hello

Please never give up!,

I took me far to long to learn something I kept putting off something I will always regret. I woke up on my 50th birthday and vowed I was going to be a driver by the time I was 51.

To cut a long story short I passed my threory 3 weeks after getting my provisional in fact a whole month before I'd even sat behind the wheel. With marks my instructor said were marks he'd expect an adi to get. 49 questions and 69 on Hazard.

I quickly got the hang of it and had my first test failed on a mirror check classed as a serious with 2 minors. Test 2 3 4 & 5 all failed with silly mistakes marked as serious. It was obvious my nerves on the day were getting the better of me although not normally nervous.

So I did something not always possible and took my 6th in my own car, I told no one about my test I even booked it the morning of the test at 9am with the test at 12.05. I then had to let one person in on the secret a close friend who sat beside me while I had an hrs warm up and the drove to the test.

I felt relaxed and confident so confident I refused to turn right in busy traffic as the slip road had no space so would leave me no where to go, I continued and used another route to get to the same place with I told the examiner was safer.

Well low and behold I thought I'd failed because of this but to my surprise I'd passed, 9 months after starting I had what I vowed I'd have a drivers licence. It's now been 9 months since the test and I drive miles both on and off motorways.

Stay with it after test 5 I almost gave up but so glad I didn't.