how many times ?

[uuf361]

First time, aged 17 and 3 months with zero minors.....

 

[sars]

It would seem that the majority of posters are the ones that passed 1st time and 2nd with great excuses, the rest of us are to embarrassed. Well I passed 3rd time round and proud of it

 

[Adamski]

First time. 4 proper lessons in total, the rest was spent learning with my dad in the passenger seat


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[theprophecy]

2nd time with just two minors at age 17 - failed the first one on undue hesitancy - stalling at the first juction put the nerves up me!

 

[Moffmo]

First time, within a couple of months of my 17th birthday


But it took only four months to write off my first car

Pretty much the same story except I just had a small bump. Passing first time means nothing as it didn't mean I was a good driver. I lacked experience and that's something you cant teach. People who take a year to pass will be better drivers unaccompanied for the first time.

 

[rhys4]

First time, in a Hillman Imp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Bing]

First time, within a couple of months of my 17th birthday

This. Though it took me considerably longer - 10 years - to write off a car, which I have only done once...

 

[Darkman]

First time Car at 17 and Bike at 26

 

[cjp2k]

1st time, (4minors)

Turned 17 in the August, Passed theory in September, passed test end of October!

 

[gannet]

first time, though no theory involved for me...

 

[ksher]

First time passed at 19 after about 25 lessons. No theory test in 1994.

 

[ab7]

2nd time for me

It's the hazard perception part of the theory test I never got - how I passed that him not sure - just kept clicking lol

 

[bat1959]

2nd time in a Triumph Dolomite after 5 lessons with BSM.
Both my sons passed 5th recently?
Here in Dubai if you are an Emirati and run a red light on your test you still pass!

 

[Stuart Truman]

First time on a bike (when all you had to do was ride around the block without falling off) and 2nd in the car (the first time the car broke down!)

What is this CBT and theory test I keep hearing about? :?

 

[paulgs1000]

Same for me passed first time both bike and car- 18 years old - once round the block one way and then round the other - ride next to the walking examiner and an emergency stop was enough to get me onto a Suzuki GS1000!
Took the car test a couple of years later and was annoyed the driving school I rang said I'd have to pay for an hours lesson before the test and had to pay for another hour to take the test (I just wanted a car to take the test in but they said they wouldn't let me do that) Expensive and far more demanding now I think.
Took the IAMS car test a couple of years ago - Skills for Life course £130. As many sessions as needed and a great way to sharpen up reading the road and technique - too often derided but it was a surprise how much I brought away from the course - excellent.

 

[Stuart Truman]

Another one who did his Bike first

A friend's father was a Police Class 1 instructor and took me out after I passed to "check I wasn't dangerous and show me how it's done properly". Those lessons have saved me and my car more than once.

 

[cj_eds]

Took the IAM car test a couple of years ago - Skills for Life course £130. As many sessions as needed and a great way to sharpen up reading the road and technique - too often derided but it was a surprise how much I brought away from the course - excellent.

+1. I'm in favour of people being regularly retested (every 10 years say) and especially as you get older. The IAM gets a fair bit of stick because of the wheel shuffling etc but there's far more too it than that and it's a great eye-opener into bad habits that creep into everybody's driving. It's made me a hell of an uncomfortable passenger these days though, when you're seeing a situation unfold ahead and the driver if blissfully ignorant that it could've been anticipated.

 

[paulgs1000]

Yep, your right about that side of the training - being a passenger now throws up lots of issues - say something or say nowt....hmmm.

 

[gannet]

Took the IAM car test a couple of years ago - Skills for Life course £130. As many sessions as needed and a great way to sharpen up reading the road and technique - too often derided but it was a surprise how much I brought away from the course - excellent.

+1. I'm in favour of people being regularly retested (every 10 years say) and especially as you get older. The IAM gets a fair bit of stick because of the wheel shuffling etc but there's far more too it than that and it's a great eye-opener into bad habits that creep into everybody's driving. It's made me a hell of an uncomfortable passenger these days though, when you're seeing a situation unfold ahead and the driver if blissfully ignorant that it could've been anticipated.

I'm IAM too - from before the Skill for life package was dreamt up, didn't cost that much either back then

dont stop there though, plenty more training you can do

 

[Mowflow]

Passed second time as I walked out of my first test.

It was at 8.50 in the morning so the roads were pretty busy. The examiner told me to pull over to the side of the road then pull out when I thought it was safe. I pulled over, sat for a while watching then spotted a gap and thought "That'll do me". Pulled out sharpish and the car started to bog down then stalled. The examiner had stepped on the dual control brake because he didn't think it was safe. I started an argument with the guy then realising I had failed decided to bail out and get the train home.

I got the same examiner the second time round :rofl: We weren't pleased to see each other.