Thanks guys you're making me feel a little better! Everyone says the test is like 10 minutes or less and is basically just driving down the road, turning around and back to the DMV. However that is for the town that I was initially planning to take the test. This town is completely foreign to me and I don't know anyone in the area to even ask what the test is like. But I'm hoping its pretty straight forward. I know I can drive. I just don't know if I can pass the test if that makes sense lol!!
Can anyone who failed the first time chime in? Why did you fail, and what did you do the next time you took the test that caused you to pass?
Let's see,
I forgot my 360 checks
I did under the speed limit (because you can't go 2 km over, and I was worried that would happen)
She made a comment about how I wasn't looking far enough back during shoulder checks, but also (resentfully) said she couldn't see my eyes because I was wearing sunglasses, which I was, because it was cloudless bright hot August day and my eyes are really sensitive to light.
Also I think she was a bit of a bitch and judged me because of the car I was driving.
The next time it was raining, so I was justified in going a bit under and I wasn't wearing sunglasses, so that solved that.
Main things I did wrong during that test were
a) I couldn't back up in a straight line, that was painful lol
b) pulling out from parallel parks I was verry close to the car in front lol (was traumatized by the previous backing up in a straight line exercise)
c) at the end of the test I thought I'd probably failed and was soo happy to be done that I was just like "**** it" and didn't back in with proper checking.
Whichever kind of parking you have the most trouble with, when you park the car for your test, park it that way. Of course they're not in the car at that point. On the return they usually tell you to do the opposite.