Did you pass first time?

Did you pass your drivers license test the first time?

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dbartucci
In Canada we have graduated licensing, when you're 16 you take a written test to get your 'G1', after 1 year of having your G1 (8 months if you complete a 16 hour class room + 10 hour driving school) you can take your road test to get your 'G2'. After 1 year of having your G2 you take another road test to get your 'G'.

With your G1 must:
  • maintain a zero blood alcohol level while driving;
  • be accompanied by a fully licensed driver
  • ensure the accompanying driver is in the front seat;
  • refrain from driving between midnight and 5:00 a.m.
With your G2 you must
  • maintain a zero blood alcohol level while driving;
The demerit points are different for the license levels too.
You must complete the process (G1->G) within 5 years.

Oh and I passed all my tests on the first try.
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The other end of the country here is basically the same. I edited out all the restrictions we don't have here (much simpler, isn't it?) and:
-G1 = 'L': Technically 'class 8 licence', I think, but everyone just calls it the L because you have to have a big magnetic letter L on the back of your car. This licence must be renewed yearly. I think it's a year before you can go for the next level of testing. (I got 99% on the test. I forgot the hours that playground zone signs are in effect for)
-G2 = 'N': Same deal, only with a green N. This licence lasts five years between renewals. Also, if you follow the letter of the law and keep the N on your car all the time, you'll be pulled over by cops all the time. If they actually catch you doing anything, you will probably loose your licence. Once you have this level, it's 18 months before you can be tested for the full licence. (I haven't tried yet, because I didn't know they were so eager to revoke it. Now I don't have anything :guilty: ).

I failed my N test twice, the same way. The first time the instructor took it personally and insisted I was trying to kill her. She's crazy, that truck wasn't even moving. :indiff: The second time I was totally clear, that car was a block away. Buch of jerks... :P
 
I passed the first time with a 100% score with only one cautionary remark about checking over my shoulder more often.
 
I got a 92% on my first try. Parallel parking and then the instructor was an ass backing outta the parking in from of the DMV office.

Oh well, it worked out well for me I guess.
 
2nd time.

1st time, I gave the car too much gas on the roads when there were hardly any cars. And I also, twice, braked too late, and screeched the tires while slightly turning the wheel to stop. I think that did me in.

2nd time, though, some guy, but this time, perfect. I'm good friends with the man now.
 
No, not only did it take me 2 tries to pass my driving test, it also tooke me two tries to get my permit!


I am teh suck.

:(
 
First time I passed with flying colors....









....The color of the SUV I hit! Not!! :P I did just fine.
 
I think it took me two tries on both the written and driving tests. On the driving test, I was doing real well, until the left turn into the two-lane oneway street. I skipped a lane, so I failed. Second time was perfect. 👍

VIPFREAK
Yeah, but IMO it's a damn joke (at least when I took it) I got more from Skip Barber. :dopey:
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You lucky son of a hibachi! :D
 
I got mine first try, no points taken off, an my 16th birthday about half an hour after the place even opened....took a day off school to do it :D

And it was only after a few months of having my learners licence
 
My first try was during a snow storm. The MTO office tried to talk me out of doing it. I guess I should have listened since I ended up failing.

But I passed the next time (waited until spring). Wow that was a long time ago...
 
Yep. 97 out of a 100. I would of had 100 out of 100 hundred if the this stupid delivery truck didn't pull out when I was doing the backup manuver. He just pulled out, out of no where, so I had to apply the brakes quite firmly.
 
wha?! surely thats not your fault :odd: i got my first test next thurs, hopefully i wont make any stupid mistakes. manoeuveres (sp?) are easy enough, its the other road users thats the test lol. iv had quite a few lessons, flying round in a ford ka :lol: its amazing how stupid other people drive near a learner car iv noticed, swerving out just to be ahead and then realising it wasnt me being slow it was the volume of traffic and now theyr holding up a junction and noone can move because the stupid "experienced" driver who thinks theyr a driving god (usually bmw drivers) has ended up on the other side of the road and now trying to cut back in behind me again because theres nowhere else to go!!! :banghead: howd you people do on the theory test? it might be different in US but anyway in the UK test i got 31/35 on multichoice and 60/70 hazard perception (damn thing disqualified me on one vid)
 
I passed it on my first time. Of course, I've been driving golf carts, go karts, and various other vehicles all my life. I've also always had a fascination with "driving" so it is really very natural to me. :)
 
VIPFREAK
uh huh... is that like how here they give asians a license just for the hell of it? :dopey: :scared: (BTW, people I'm asian)
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No, we have a graduated license system, 6 months on the 'Learners' (drive only with a full license driver), 18 months on the 'Restricted' (10pm - 5am curfew, no passengers 12 months if you do a defensive driving course) and then onto the Full with no license restrictions...

There was a lot of heat in the media here recently about asian drivers paying for their license rather then sitting it.
 
Taurine
No, we have a graduated license system, 6 months on the 'Learners' (drive only with a full license driver), 18 months on the 'Restricted' (10pm - 5am curfew, no passengers 12 months if you do a defensive driving course) and then onto the Full with no license restrictions...

There was a lot of heat in the media here recently about asian drivers paying for their license rather then sitting it.
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I seriously think they give em out here. A monkey does better. Why can a country like Germany have an Autobaun? Because they are actually taught how to drive. Would we ever get something like that in the US? Hellz no and if we did I wouldn't go on it because it would be like the freeway scene in the Matrix Reloaded. :scared:
 
had my first test today, failed :indiff: damn bus blocked my view turning right at a junction and i took an opportunity gap in the traffic of what little i could see and someone came flying down beside the bus and got myself a major :grumpy: no minors tho which is good
 
Passed both theoretical and actual exams 1st time, a few months after my 30th birthday. :D I had a fair amount of lessons and had asked my driving instructor to go a few extra miles with me, which he gladly did and then some because I live near him and he has young kids. :D If they awarded points here though, I'd have scored very high, it was pretty much flawless. I passed one intersection at 40km/h that the examiner thought I could have passed slightly slower, but that was about it. I was lucky though, as I was driving an Alfa 156 2.4 Jtd and the fairly old driving instructor couldn't see the speedometer. As they have to pay the speeding tickets themselves here, and as the car is a bit of a race monster compared to most other lesson cars, he was constantly worried I'd be driving too fast, which allowed me to take it reeaallly easy. My instructor was very pleased (it brought his 1st time percentage to over 60%, the national average is about 50%).
 
Haven't taken either, I drive illegally.

Okay so thats a lie, I passed my theory first time and my practical 2nd.
 
Yeah, first time. I just knicked a few points for going too far under the speed limit (in one residential area, I missed the sign, which was hidden behind a tree, and so I assumed the limit was 25, though it was actually 35).
 
yep... passed mine the first time. I had been driving since I was 14 (illegally), I finally got my lisence at 20....my only problem with the test was driving with both hands! I was so used to driving with 1 that 2 felt weird.....
 

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