You will have an hour’s lesson before your Driving Test, this will give a good 'warm up' to practice your driving and manoeuvres. You will then go to the Test Centre with your Driving Instructor and wait in the waiting room. There will probably be other people waiting at the same time as you. At the appropriate time the examiners will come into the waiting room.
When one of them calls your name stand up and go over to where they are. They will ask to see your Provisional Licence . They will ask you to sign a Residency and Insurance declaration on their form to say that you still are at the same address and the car is Insured for the Test. They will then tell you to lead the way to your vehicle. on the way they will conduct the eyesight test.
On arriving at the Vehicle they will ask the two "show me / tell me" questions.
They will then Instruct you to follow the road ahead unless they tell you to turn or the road signs tell you to. The test last approximately 40 minutes and will include one Manoeuvre and possibly an emergency stop. At the end of the test they will tell you if you have passed.
To pass your Test, you may not make more than 15 Driving errors (minor mistakes) and you may not make any serious faults (major mistakes). If you have not passed, the examiner will explain what went wrong. They may ask if you want your Instructor to seat with you in the car during the Test or to listen to the debreif at the end. They will then give you a copy of the Driving Test Report
When one of them calls your name stand up and go over to where they are. They will ask to see your Provisional Licence . They will ask you to sign a Residency and Insurance declaration on their form to say that you still are at the same address and the car is Insured for the Test. They will then tell you to lead the way to your vehicle. on the way they will conduct the eyesight test.
On arriving at the Vehicle they will ask the two "show me / tell me" questions.
They will then Instruct you to follow the road ahead unless they tell you to turn or the road signs tell you to. The test last approximately 40 minutes and will include one Manoeuvre and possibly an emergency stop. At the end of the test they will tell you if you have passed.
To pass your Test, you may not make more than 15 Driving errors (minor mistakes) and you may not make any serious faults (major mistakes). If you have not passed, the examiner will explain what went wrong. They may ask if you want your Instructor to seat with you in the car during the Test or to listen to the debreif at the end. They will then give you a copy of the Driving Test Report
Driving Test Tips
- Make plenty of use of your mirrors, check your blind spot each time you pull away and do plenty of observation during the manoeuvres, especially out the back window.
- Relax, take your time, don't rush.
- With the reverse park in the road, stop within two car lengths.
- Bay Parking, Drive forward into a parking bay within the two lines
- Reverse into a parking bay within the two white lines
- Pull up on the right hand side of the road and reverse for two car lengths and then rejoin the traffic
- Sat nav or following Direction signs for 20minutes of the test, the pupil will have to follow the instructions from the sat nav which will be provides by the Examiner.