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Have my driving test(in Finglas) in two weeks! BRICKING IT!

  • 09-01-2014 2:01pm
    #1
    noeld932
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32 ✭


    Hey guys!

    I have been driving for 6 months now and I have my driving test in 2 weeks.
    It's safe to say I'm ****ting bricks!
    I have gotten about 15 lessons and have been driving in between lessons as well.

    Coming up to my test, I'm getting about 3-4 lessons a week.
    I don't know whether I'm good enough for the test, I feel like I am a pretty good safe driver, though.

    I feel like my nerves will get the better of me on the day.
    I'm afraid of cutting out or making stupid mistakes that I normally wouldn't do.

    My instructor told me that I need to go slower coming up to T juntions so I can properly assess the road. She said that I'm brilliant at hilstarts, the turnabout and reversing around the corner.

    Any tips, guys and gals?

    Cheers!


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  • #2
    ProudDUB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,569 ✭✭✭✭ProudDUB


    How well do you know the Finglas area where you will be doing the test? I'd take a trip over to the test area itself, and particular the centre itself, if I were you. Get used to driving into and out of the test centre a couple of times. It is in a business park and there are several little things that could trip you up, as you exit it and enter it. The road markings are almost gone and they are very easy to over look, especially if you are hyper and nervous.

    If you turn right as you exit the test centre, going towards Finglas village, there is a very tricky junction at the Superquin/Bank of Ireland junction at the bottom of Jamestown Rd. A lot of people make mistakes there. Get proper instruction on how to go thru it. If the tester takes you down there towards Finglas village, he will probably have you turn left and then turn right at the next lights. There is a school there. If school is about to let out, he will take you by it, as he want to see how you handle the hazard of kids being about.

    I'm told the green at Willow Park Crescent is popular for doing the reverse around the corner part of your test. They do it at the bottom end of the green, not the end up at the shops. The housing estate on both sides of Glasnevin Avenue, between Ballymun Rd and the roundabout at Willow Park Rd, are popular spots for testers to take people on their tests. The streets behind the Autobahn pub are especially popular for testers.

    Bet of luck. :)


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