Driving test - how many times did it take you to pass?

Jayo11780 · 03-12-2014 09:43PM #1

Took me 6 times to pass mine, and was still only 20 when i got my license... Failed twice in Athlone and passed on my 4th attempt in Birr..
I love telling that story!:D

That was back in 2001 - I'd be rightly screwed if i was trying to pass it now, what with all the extras in the driving test nowadays!

Anyone else fail a few times?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 03-12-2014 09:46PM

First time aged 19.

Pinch Flat · 03-12-2014 09:47PM

First time. In London. In the middle of a tube strike so the roads were packed.

the evasion_kid · 03-12-2014 09:47PM

3 times...its only a money racket

Crunchienut · 03-12-2014 09:47PM

First time - age 17 - still not sure how I managed to pull that one off!!

egan2020 · 03-12-2014 09:49PM

Passed first time. Had a half hour lesson before test - it was twelve years ago so the requirement to have a certain amount of lessons wasn't in place. I honestly believed I hadn't a hope of passing and was only doing it because my provisional licence was up so the lack of nerves went in my favour :pac:

corsav6 · 03-12-2014 09:50PM

1st time aged 24. The tester was in a very good mood so maybe had a bit of luck.

Venus In Furs · 03-12-2014 09:50PM

Jayo11780 wrote: »

Took me 6 times to pass mine

Same here. Was 26 when I passed. 2005.

Summer wind · 03-12-2014 09:51PM

Started to drive at 22 and passed my test first time at 25.

blindside88 · 03-12-2014 09:53PM

Pasted first time when I was 17

Tilly · 03-12-2014 09:54PM

Passed first time.

RayM · 03-12-2014 09:55PM

Passed first time. My pre-test was, in the words of my instructor, 'a fucking disaster'. Stalled in the middle of a busy roundabout, almost hit a pedestrian at a zebra crossing, did 70 in a 50 zone... The test itself was somehow flawless. I completely fluked it.

Intensive Care Bear · 03-12-2014 09:56PM

I passed first time with only one lesson 2 hours before the test.

Pherekydes · 03-12-2014 10:08PM

One. No lessons, no pre test. It's too easy.

Macavity. · 03-12-2014 10:09PM

Passed the theory first time, have to do the practical one. Driving isn't a huge priority for me right now.

03-12-2014 10:10PM

Second time
On the first time, I shouldn't have been let near a car, in hindsight

Found a much better instructor for the second go round as well

starlit · 03-12-2014 10:11PM

Second attempt to pass driving test at 27, two years ago aprox!

shanec1928 · 03-12-2014 10:11PM

First time 17.the instructer tried his hardest to fail me. Went off the usual routes. Have me a lecture then when I passed.

keithclancy · 03-12-2014 10:12PM

3

First time the car was banjaxed

Second time I was a nervous wreck and thought about doing every little step too much, my head was moving all over place looking at mirrors.

Third time I was moving to another country the week after and I was convinced I wouldn't pass anyway so I didn't give a sh1t, was chatting away to the instructor (one way conversation, he didn't talk back except for "Next left" "first exit on the roundabout"

Got back to the test center and he told me I passed :pac:

starlit · 03-12-2014 10:14PM

Best way to approach it drive like you would normally drive more likely to pass!

r3nu4l · 03-12-2014 10:18PM

Passed first time, two minor faults. Then drove home at 70 mph in a 60 zone, with one hand on the wheel while eating a sandwich in my little 1.0 litre Corsa like I was too cool for school...

/total idiot!

03-12-2014 10:19PM

doovdela wrote: »

Best way to approach it drive like you would normally drive more likely to pass!

Unless you drive really badly
then dont

anncoates · 03-12-2014 10:20PM

Passed on second attempt. To be fair, I had only been learning a few months when I failed the first one.

Karl Stein · 03-12-2014 10:26PM

D'you remember that fella who was so good at driving they had to shoot him?

SMJSF · 03-12-2014 10:27PM

Passed first time, in January in Wicklow (:

Alun · 03-12-2014 10:29PM

First time, 6 months after my 17th birthday.

tim3000 · 03-12-2014 10:29PM

Failed it three times and counting. Hideously expensive waste of time.

Venus In Furs · 03-12-2014 10:30PM

I don't blame all my fails on it being "a money racket" etc. I blame it on me just not being very good at driving.
If it's a money racket, nobody would pass first time.

Scared Hitless 2 · 03-12-2014 10:32PM

Second time. 19. No fatalities second time round.

wiz569 · 03-12-2014 10:33PM

First time aged 33

pwurple · 03-12-2014 10:33PM

Passed car test first time, even though I went through a red light on the test (floored it from a good way back as it went orange). Must have done everything else perfectly.

Did a bit better on my bike test... Don't remember any feckups, passed that first time too.

Driving test - how many times did it take you to pass?

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