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Drivers license test?

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Well, I just turned 16 this Sunday. They only give the test for a drivers license on Fridays, so it looks like I'll be taking the test in 3 days...

Any advice?

I'm trying to figure out some things to watch for. After talking to some friends, it seems the two main things people get flunked for are 1.) Not waiting long enough at stop signs, and 2.) not looking over their shoulder when lane changing or whatever.

So, any tips? Advice? Things to not do? Things to practice?

Thanks 😀
 
When you exit a private drive or road, you're supposed to come to a complete stop, not just yield. I missed that question on my written exam many many years ago.
 
Don't freak out and slam on the brakes when another car gets near you, one of the girls in my driving group kept doing this.
 
Stop on the line. And get marked down when there's no line anymore because of abrasion and sand covering it.

Oh, don't fiddle with the radio. In fact, leave it off.
 
If he tells you to pull over to the side to practice parking make sure he isn't telling you to do it deliberately in front of a fire hydrant like my guy did. I think it was the only thing I was docked for. Obviously don't speed at all - half my driving time was spent looking at the speedometer so that I wouldn't edge above the speed limit. Frequent checks of mirrors, signalling, don't go through red lights.
 
yeah. the complete stop is important.

my driving tester failed me on the spot because I didn't come to a complete stop at the first stop sign (wasn't quite a rolling stop, but you're supposed to stop the car, take 3-5 seconds to look both ways, and then resume driving).
 
Are you an Asian? European? I am, and I got this tip from my uncle a long time ago. When the driving examiner shows up, speak very little. Try to answer by nodding your head for yes or shaking it sideways for no. When you get in the car and he/she asks if you have any final questions before you begin, talk softly (as if really really shy) and in your thickest accent ask the examiner in slightly broken English to "talk much slowly because I am not understand English when people speak it fast". Why? Because the examiner will have a tendency to call out the turns and moves a lot sooner than normal. Half a block away, he/she will be telling you, "At the next light.... make....a... right.... turn." Then you'll have all the time in the world to think and plan your move.

Trust me. It works. Myself and several others have done this.
 
Originally posted by: Ikonomi
Signal for everything.
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also, the tester might try to trick you to evaluate your awareness. i've had them ask me to turn left at an intersection when there is a hard to see sign prohibiting this.
 
Anymore ideas? Passed my written test today.

Drive test on Tuesday @ 11:30.

I agree, the Indiana written test is real easy.

What really bites though is this. My permit expires in June so I have to pass the first or second time 😛 .

Assuming I fail the driving test, I get to retake driver's ed if I want to keep the insurance benefits.
 
Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy
Anymore ideas? Passed my written test today.
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Well, I'll go over the 3 things he (the driving instructer dude) said were problems, he only wrote down one of them though because the other two didn't matter enough to care, and the one he did count wasn't enough for me to flunk the test. I got an 87, I believe you have to get over a 70 in Missouri to pass, or something like that.

Anyway, here's what he said:

1.) When I parrallel parked, I was just barley too far away from the curb. I was still completely in the space, but you might want to try to get pretty close to the curb (without hitting it, obviously). This was the main one, the thing he wrote down.

2.) On one of the stop signs, when I got up to it, I stopped and counted in my head "One one thousand, two one thousand, three onethousand" to make sure he didn't get me for coming to a rolling stop, or not stopping long enough. In the process, I must have looked to the left and right like 5 times. But when I was finally turning (I was turning right), I only looked once (I'd just looked in the other direction like 3 seconds ago, and unless there was a souped up McLaurn F1 on the road, nothing could get to where I was in that period of time) in the other direction, and he got me for that. So make sure RIGHT BEFORE you pull away from a stop sign you look left and right.

3.) The other one was, he had me park along side a road on the right side, going uphill. There was a curb. I forgot and turned my tires to the right instead of the left. I caught myself before we left and switched, but apparently turning it wrong at first wasn't a good thing.

Also, like someone else said, signal for EVERY little thing. If you pull over to the side of the road, signal. If you pull back onto the road, signal. If you scratch your crotch, signal.
 
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