Doing My Driving Test

After 6 months of hard work, lots of tears and arguments, the day of my driving test finally came around.

Fair to say I didn't sleep very well the night before, manoeuvres going round and round in my head. Rules about bus lanes being recited.

My alarm went off at 6am, giving me 45 minutes to panic before my instructor arrived at 7:15am to take me for a lesson before my test.

I managed to force down some breakfast and waited patiently for my instructor to arrive.

I have to say, the lesson before my test was probably one of the worst lessons I've ever had. I was rubbish. The nerves were getting to me and I had no hope.

We pulled over and ran through the 'show me, tell me' questions, to which my answers were pretty awful I have to admit. It was like everything I had learned had just escaped my head when I'd woken up that morning.

Before I knew it we had 10 minutes to get to the test centre before my allocated test time of 8:20am.

As we arrived I had to perform a reverse bay park in the car park of the test centre along with all of the other 8:20am candidates. We then went to the waiting room, all nervously holding our provisional licences wondering if this would be the last time we'd be needing them.

I could feel my legs getting wobbly and I began to think to myself, how will I use the pedals without any legs? I've never needed my legs in a test before!

At precisely 8:20am the examiners paraded in and each called out a name. My name was called and before I knew it there was no way out. I signed my name and made my way outside to the car.

I was asked to read a number plate that hung from a fence on the other side of the car park before walking over to the car. It was then he asked me the 'show me, tell me' questions. I was so relieved when he asked me two that I'd just gone over beforehand. HALLELUJAH.

That was when the test began. It was the quickest 38 minutes I have ever experienced. I drove like I'd never driven before and hoped that it was enough. My stomach churned when I caught him writing on his piece of paper in my peripheral vision.
I hadn't been asked to complete a manouvere throughout my test and therefore I knew I would have to complete a reverse bay park when we arrived back at the test centre. Exactly as I had done upon arrival.

By 8:58am it was all over.

My instructor came over to the car and then I was given the impossible task of opening the window. i managed to open the examiner's window before mine. Awkward. 

This was the moment when the examiner said words that I wasn't expecting at all..
'That concludes your test and you have passed'

I WAS SO RELIEVED.

I had passed, first time,  with only 2 minor faults (which is definitely a record for me!)

I would highly recommend JRN Driving Academy, for a professional, enjoyable and incredibly effective learning expereince.

I will write another post soon about insurance advice and how I sorted mine out. 

until next time,

Hannah.