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Some advice to help you prepare for your practical driving test
The practical driving test examiner is looking for a safe and accurate drive throughout the practical driving test. If you remember to follow all of the procedures as they have been taught to you everything will be fine. Your driving instructor will have made sure that you are very well prepared.
If for example, the driving test examiner gives the instruction, 'at the roundabout I would like you to turn right please taking the fourth exit', you should remember the direction and exit number. People do forget though. If you find yourself exiting the roundabout at the exit before the one that the examiner asked you to take, do not worry about it. The correct thing to do is to finish exiting the roundabout safely. The examiner will change the test route accordingly and no mistake will be recorded on the report form. If you realised and jerked the wheel round to get to the correct exit you would have made several errors at the same time and will probably fail.
If you think that you have made an error that is serious enough to be judged as serious, and therefore a practical driving test fail; do not give up on the spot. You may quite easily be wrong. The driving test examiner is the trained judge, not you. Before now I have had a pupil return from a test for the examiner to comment that everything had been going well up to a certain point. Beyond that point the pupil drove indifferently and committed many errors. I found out after the examiner had left that the pupil had spotted a mistake that the examiner had judged as minor but the pupil had thought of it as a serious error and not been bothered after that point. How daft is that?
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