How long did you have to wait before retaking your drivers test?
Im pretty confident in driving abilities for taking the test this week with nearly two months of driving with someone else. My only real issue with taking my drivers test is that its my understanding sometimes DMVs have a secret everyone fails once policy, or some instructors do. I’m mainly wondering on average in the US low long did people have to wait.
Said I could come back the next day, as it turned out I was busy that day so I passed the following day instead. I failed because I got over confident backing out of a parking spot an nudged a cone. Or, as he put it, I murdered a toddler. Fair enough. We did the backing up thing first so I could get that out of the way, the rest of the test was easy.
I’ve never heard of a weird secret code to force you to fail, just relax and don’t run over any toddlers, I mean cones, and I’m sure you’ll be just fine!
Only took it once, I don’t know anyone personally that took it more than once. If there’s a minimum wait time it would be posted in your state’s policies, but I’d guess they’ll take your money for the second test as soon as you want the too
I technically failed my first time, as the backup lights in my car didn’t work, so I didn’t even get to the driving part. They let me use a different vehicle the same day, so I passed with a vehicle that I didn’t drive too often. I’ve never heard of a secret policy where everyone automatically fails, and most of the people I’ve known pass the first time, so I’m guessing it’s some urban legend.
If anything I’ve heard of people always getting marked down for something but arbitrarily failing everyone completely on their first try would just lead to a huge backlog of test takers.
I could see why someone would think it, though. My girlfriend got her license very late, we went to the same DMV 3 times to take the test. First time, bapped the pole during the parallel park, instant fail, do not pass go, do not collect a driver’s license. Second time, didn’t pass the parallel park but didn’t bap the pole, so continued. Got marked “Fail” on things. More practice, third time, again, tons of fails over minor errors. Note that there is a middle point between good and fail, but they literally never used it.
Fourth time, I said screw that DMV, we’re going to a different one. We went to a town with a tiny DMV with one little older lady running it, she literally had to lock up the office portion for every road test because she was alone. Girlfriend miraculously did the parallel park perfect, not a single fail on anything, and 2/3 of the middle scores. Passed easily.
First DMV had a lot of young workers, so my thinking is they like to mark everything they can to show their bosses how good they are at nitpicking other people’s driving.
It varies from state to state. Some let you take it the next day, others might require you to wait a few weeks. At least that is what I remember from when I was worried about failing the test. Although, I've never really heard of a practice where the DMV or an instructor fails everyone the first time. Some instructors might be stricter than others, but I don't think it's a policy across DMVs and driving instructors. Besides, with two months of practice, you should be fine. So long as you can obey traffic laws and do what the instructor says you should pass.
I failed my first time. I panicked and forgot how to parallel park. I think I spent the next month or so practicing and took it again. I don’t think I’ve heard of people failing so frequently - so I’m not sure about that fail policy
Nah, there’s no policy like that. Well, not across the board. There could be some individual offices that do such, but I’ve got a giant famn damily across the country, including two different DMVs, and there’s no sign of a policy like that being in place.
And I passed my first go. So did most of the cousins in my age range, so it definitely isn’t an everywhere, every when thing at all
I failed my first time. The instructor never told me why I failed, so I have no idea what I needed to improve on. I remember thinking it MUST be the parallel parking section, so I asked my dad to take me out to the DMV so I could spend an hour or two perfecting my parallel parking.
I scheduled a second test for the next Sunday. Little did I realize this was Super Bowl Sunday. The instructor I got that time around was very chill and just told me to drive through a nearby neighborhood a few times so we could wrap things up quickly. I was never even asked to parallel park.
All of this to say that I don’t think the DMV has a secret failing policy, but I can guarantee you that some instructors take it more seriously than others.
I didn’t fail, and I never heard the “everyone fails once” thing. But also I learned from a private driving school, where the test was given by my regular instructor and had exactly the same vibe as all our regular practice sessions did.
Passed mine first try. It helps to take it somewhere suburban-almost-rural–the roads will be way easier and the instructors are more inclined to pass people because it’s much more important for people in those places to have licenses.
That was not a thing in my experience. The only thing I got a point taken off for was not checking my mirrors when turning. I did, but I guess I should have exaggerated turning my head to make it more obvious.
I’d believe it if I was told that some instructors will never give a perfect score and will always find something to ding you for, but it would be absurd to have a standard policy of failing everyone.
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