Pass the Driving Test Before Your Friends

Passing the driving test requires long practice and good skills. To show how important that is, Robin Piggott wrote a (VERY long - over 1000 words) article. It might just help you pass before your friends!

How to Pass the Driving Test in Three Months Without Spending a Fortune and Before Your Friends

The Driving Test need not be the nightmare that it becomes for so many drivers young and not so young.

The ability to pass the Driving Test without it taking years to achieve is within the capability of every Driver providing and this is the key, they take the trouble to find out what is required of them in the first place. They can do this by enlisting the services of a Professional Driving School who will know exactly what is currently required of the candidate and how to achieve the necessary standard.

Forget Mums, Dads, Girlfriends and Boy Friends. They will not know what is currently required to pass the Driving Test nor will they be aware of the things that an Examiner is looking out for.
It needn’t take forever or cost a small fortune but it will take time, application and perseverance.
Most Learner Drivers think they can get by without taking Driving Lessons from a school. They find out to their horror and shock all too soon that this strategy is a complete waste of time

Many Learner Drivers take no Professional Tuition whatsoever and rely on a mixture of hope, optimism and the ownership of a car as their prime mover. This is a method that is bound to result in failure and often several times over. Knowing exactly what is required of you in a Driving Test situation will get you halfway at least to passing the Test. Then the other half of the equation is totally down to your determination to be at least competent in every single Manoeuvre and Technique. Not just most of the manoeuvres but ALL of them.

This is the hard part or is it? Nothing in this life comes without planning, hard work, determination and last of all, persistence. When you are up against a seemingly insurmountable obstacle such as being able to move your car round a corner without ending up in the middle of the road then you must spend whatever time it takes to get it right. We are talking about fifty or a hundred manoeuvres here not just one or two and then off to Starbucks for a coffee and a chat .Does this sound like hard work? You bet it is but this is what separates the successful candidates from those that get the little pink slip or whatever colour it is in your own particular country.

Just by buying a car and driving around in a delusional state for a year or so not only won’t get you through the Driving Test but will be heading you for something much worse than Driving Test failure. What we are talking about here is a litany of bad habits many of which will be leading sooner rather than later to a serious accident or should we say incident.

All so called accidents are the result of sometimes a succession of circumstances, usually precipitated by one serious error by one driver, which then attracts other errors into the mix from another driver.

If, for example, an untrained driver makes a simple error by virtue of his lack of understanding of a basic driving principle, such as not driving too close to another vehicle and the vehicle in front stops suddenly then the result is a forgone conclusion. He or she will run into the back of the car in front, often with serious damage to their vehicle .Remember the most expensive parts of a car are at the front.

You can get away with some damage to the rear of your vehicle but a shunt at the front will often leave you looking for another engine or worse still, another car with all the attendant upset and financial hardship that an accident, sorry incident, brings.

Of course that might not be the only damage. Supposing the driver behind you is of the same low standard of skill and training and is traveling too close to you? Well you will be in the most unfortunate situation of having rear end damage, as well as full frontal and this very often will mean a complete write off if the car is a few years old.

So here we have a very simple and fundamental driving rule, that of keeping your distance, that if ignored can and often does lead to serious damage and the end of your journeys for that week or month.

There are dozens, if not hundreds, of such simple driving techniques and principles to learn and master before you will confidently sit and pass a Driving Test .On their own, most are easy to comprehend but added together form a considerable mountain to climb. Some are less easy to perfect and this is where the Driving Instructor plays an essential role.

Very few Mountain climbers would attempt Everest without oxygen so it is with Learner Drivers wanting to know how to pass a Driving Test .It is a Mountain that requires Respect, Dedication, Training, Planning and Persistence. Any one of these attributes that are absent in the mix will lead to an unfavourable result first of all, and second of all to considerable hardship in the event of an incident, sorry accident.

To summarize, one would need to appreciate the importance of the Role of the Instructor in reaching a Driving Test Pass and to accept that this will involve parting with quite a considerable sum of money but not a King’s Ransom.

Time spent in practicing the various techniques to as near perfection as possible, is the next prerequisite.

This can certainly be done with relatives but their role in the car is not to impart their, usually out of date and mediocre skills, but to enable the Learner to carry out safely the new Techniques imparted by their Instructor. If arguments or disagreements occur then it is time to find another relative to occupy the passenger seat.

Finally, when a suitable standard has been reached some fine tuning with the Instructor in the Driving Test locality will be required, to keep an eye on any temporary road and building activities that can cause serious difficulties to all drivers and not just beginners. The few days leading to the Driving Test appointment and the morning of the Test itself would be the time to complete this reconnaissance.

Once this total plan of action has been carried out, the candidate will be way ahead of any contemporaries who have been teaching themselves and will have the best possible chance of passing the Driving Test first time.

Robin Piggott is a Driving Instructor in Ireland who brings four decades of experience to his Astral Driving School based in Limerick. Here you can find a treasure trove of everything for the Learner Driver. Pick up a free seven part mini course "Passing the Driving Test First Time" and put yourself way ahead of the average Learner.

Source: EzineArticles.com.

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