Help, just booked driving test BC!
Oct 21st 2009, 5:27 am
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Make sure you know how to do 4-way stops - I got taken through that twice on my test, not good at those! If two cars arrive at the stop line at the same time then it's the person on the right that goes first.
I heard of someone failing because they turned right on a red light, but there was a cyclist waiting in the bike lane to go straight on and apparently you're not allowed to cut in front of them even though it was stationary. Might be worth checking that out.
Good luck
I heard of someone failing because they turned right on a red light, but there was a cyclist waiting in the bike lane to go straight on and apparently you're not allowed to cut in front of them even though it was stationary. Might be worth checking that out.
Good luck
Oct 21st 2009, 6:16 am
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I nearly had the same problem with the front windows tinted, luckily for me the test instructor I spoke to 3 days before my test told me the car was illegal! I took it back to the garage and luckily they took the tint off free of charge.
Oct 21st 2009, 6:37 am
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Oh, and don't miss completely stopping before the sidewalk before pulling out of the test centre!!!
There are some strange intersections on the test routes so if you'd had more time I'd definitely have said a lesson or two to get familiar with them if nothing else, but as it is just try not to get ridiculously nervous like I did and take deep breaths...I'm sure you'll do fine!
There are some strange intersections on the test routes so if you'd had more time I'd definitely have said a lesson or two to get familiar with them if nothing else, but as it is just try not to get ridiculously nervous like I did and take deep breaths...I'm sure you'll do fine!
Oct 21st 2009, 9:02 pm
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Good news, I passed 
!!!
Was pretty nervous before hand and then the examiner came to get me - it was Jennifer
(she was mentioned in this thread as being a toughy) but I thought 'what the hell, a lesson would cost me the same as the test so might as well get on with it'.
Got in the car and she went round the outside checking all the signals worked etc (this was one of the most nerve racking parts as my car is a bit of a heap - a 98 taurus wagon. Does the job though, and you can fit pretty much anything in the back with the seats down, including 3 seater sofas!).
Anyway, got out on the road and was remembering all the key things - stopped at stop signs, kept wheels straight at intersections turning left, spotted the school zones and shoulder checked like I was about to steal something!
Pretty uneventful, no manoeuvres while out on the roads, went on a couple of 'highways' out at point grey (really just big empty roads that you can go 80km/h on, easiest highway driving you can get), didn't get asked to say hazzards as I drove (which she said she would get me to do at the start). Then as we went back to the test centre a crazy jake (scottish word for bum) was wandering in the middle of a four lane road - i thought, sh*t what am i meant to do here, if I fail i'm going to come back and kick this persons ass! Anyway, decided just to drive past. She noted in her book. I thought, oh b*ll*cks, but put it out of my head.
Went back to test centre and waited until the queue of people doing reverse stall parking was done, then it was my turn and did it no probs (luckily I find reverse stall parking the easiest manoeuvre to do) - and she just said, excellent job you passed! Saweet !
She did comment on the crazy jake and said i should probably have stopped but she said that was her only comment and good driving.
So happy it's done now, it would have been a long walk home and my other half really doesn't like driving much.
All in all, good day so far - i deserve a seat and a relax i think!
!!!Was pretty nervous before hand and then the examiner came to get me - it was Jennifer
(she was mentioned in this thread as being a toughy) but I thought 'what the hell, a lesson would cost me the same as the test so might as well get on with it'.Got in the car and she went round the outside checking all the signals worked etc (this was one of the most nerve racking parts as my car is a bit of a heap - a 98 taurus wagon. Does the job though, and you can fit pretty much anything in the back with the seats down, including 3 seater sofas!).
Anyway, got out on the road and was remembering all the key things - stopped at stop signs, kept wheels straight at intersections turning left, spotted the school zones and shoulder checked like I was about to steal something!
Pretty uneventful, no manoeuvres while out on the roads, went on a couple of 'highways' out at point grey (really just big empty roads that you can go 80km/h on, easiest highway driving you can get), didn't get asked to say hazzards as I drove (which she said she would get me to do at the start). Then as we went back to the test centre a crazy jake (scottish word for bum) was wandering in the middle of a four lane road - i thought, sh*t what am i meant to do here, if I fail i'm going to come back and kick this persons ass! Anyway, decided just to drive past. She noted in her book. I thought, oh b*ll*cks, but put it out of my head.
Went back to test centre and waited until the queue of people doing reverse stall parking was done, then it was my turn and did it no probs (luckily I find reverse stall parking the easiest manoeuvre to do) - and she just said, excellent job you passed! Saweet
!She did comment on the crazy jake and said i should probably have stopped but she said that was her only comment and good driving.
So happy it's done now, it would have been a long walk home and my other half really doesn't like driving much.
All in all, good day so far - i deserve a seat and a relax i think!
Oct 21st 2009, 9:12 pm
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Congrats - excellent stuff!
Oct 21st 2009, 9:20 pm
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Congratulations! Yay for getting it over and done with hey 
Oct 21st 2009, 9:44 pm
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They still seem to have most of the school zone/end of zone signs obscured by bushes and trees though...
Same with the playground zones.
don't forget, school zones are only in effect on a school day, but playground zones are in effect every day.
Oct 21st 2009, 11:46 pm
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you lot are just be annoying for the halibut.
Oct 22nd 2009, 12:33 am
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I trout anyone can follow this thread anymore...
how many more fish jokes can there be!?
how many more fish jokes can there be!?
Oct 22nd 2009, 12:55 am
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If you've fin ished with the fish jokes, just like to offer my congratulations, well done chum.