10 tips to pass your driving tests that always work. Many hundreds of people who took this advice
passed their driving test without any difficulty whatsoever. Number one tip is to be familiar
with the procedures of driving assessment. Wherever you are in the world, you've got to be
familiar with procedures. If you don't know which exercises form part of every driving assessment,
you're probably not going to pass. This is the case with most people, especially with
people who have licenses from overseas. They'd be thinking that they can drive. They've been driving
for many years, but when they come for the test, they simply can't perform well because they don't
know what they're marking them on. Number two is the lack of driving, days leading to the
driving assessment. So if you really, if you are really determined to pass your driving assessment,
I personally suggest that you drive at least 10 days consistently, at least an hour
a day, preferably in the area of your driving assessment so you will know the area really well.
A lot of people don't know the streets you know, for example, they live in one part of the city,
and they go to the other part of the city, and they simply underperform and as a result lose
too many points or fail immediately on some major points. Number three is don't only do easy stuff.
So you got to do the difficult stuff. You have to merge and change lanes as many times as possible.
Set the rule when you're going for your driving lessons that you change lanes at least 10 times,
that you merge at least five times, that you go through different types of roundabouts at least
twice or three times and that way you're going to be much better prepared to take your driving
test. Number four, make sure that you speak to your supervisor, your driving instructor or
your private supervisors and ask them if they feel comfortable with your driving, you know,
your general driving. And also, ask them to be honest if they believe you would pass your driving
assessment. A lot of times, people get offended if we tell them, look, we don't believe it will
pass if you do your test tomorrow, and if we've still got seven days before your driving test,
you've still got plenty of time. You know, even if you drive half an hour a day in the area, you'll
be much better prepared. So think of any advice as constructive criticism rather than, you know,
being offended about, you know, the fact, usually the fact that you would not be able to pass if
you did the test the next morning. Number five, don't associate any negative thoughts with your
driving assessment. A lot of times, people tell us that, you know, they were trying to imagine
how it would be sitting with the examiner inside of the car, what would they look like,
what would they sound like, so that's completely wasted energy. So, you shouldn't really be
thinking about it. What you can visualize is how you do things to the best of your ability
with ease, with joy, how you drive well, and you know, visualize yourself, you know, changing lanes
if that's your weakest link. Because if you try to imagine what the examiner looks like and what
will they sound like, will you understand the way they speak and all of that, it'll be the same as
if you're trying to imagine how the person that you hear speaking on the radio looks like. So,
I'll tell you one thing you'd be 100 per cent wrong. Secondly, but more importantly,
it doesn't really make any difference whether you're going to pass your driving test or not.
Number six is, don't tell your friends that you're going for your driving assessment. What's going to
happen if you announce that you're doing something very important? That's going to create unnecessary
pressure on you, so you know, try to limit exposure of what you're doing, and you know,
it's easy to break the good news once it happens. You know, if you pass, you can tell everyone that
you're going tomorrow but then tell them, hey, I passed, and you show them the picture. I mean,
I'm not I'm not asking you to lie, but you know, whatever you do, try to limit sharing with people
what you're doing because that is important. A lot of learner drivers who fail their driving
tests they regret sharing with everyone that you know that they were going to take their driving
assessment the next day, or you know, in the next two days or something. Number seven, if
you are not used to getting up really early, avoid doing a driving test very early in the morning. So
if you usually get up at about 10, don't book a driving assessment that starts at 7am.
If you decided to take an early driving test, please make sure that you have at least seven
and a half hours of sleep the evening before. We have the video on the channel on the sleep cycle,
and you know how you can optimize, so check that out. Number eight, have a long driving lesson
on the day of your driving assessment, just before the driving test. We usually suggest at
least about 90 minutes, but even if it's two and a half hours, three hours with a few breaks, you're
gonna sort of you know, have a cup of coffee or something, stretch your legs. So you can't overdo
it. So longer the session before your driving test, the better results are. So I can tell you
that from our 23 years of experience in this industry. Number nine, make sure you can park.
Nobody passes driving tests if they can't park. So you know, they will ask you reverse parking,
some places reverse parallel parking, even if the driving test centre is known, you know,
for not sort of doing reverse parallel parking, they do have rights to pull you
over on the side of the road and ask you to do reverse parallel park. By the way, it is great
to know how and it's not difficult at all. So if you can't park, you will certainly not be able to
pass your test. You might be lucky to only park forward. It does happen sometimes, but you know,
parking forward is, you know, sometimes a bit of a task as well, especially if you're parking
between the two cars if it's a narrow gap. So you know, make sure that you practice reverse
parking on both left and the right-hand side and you know, even reverse parallel parking on both
sides. Ask your instructor if you would pass your low-speed maneuvers, that includes, in Australia,
obviously we've got the exercise left something behind. So that is where the examiner will put you
under the microscope the most because everything happens slower and there's more things to do
you know. So they would judge you for looking, signalling, flow, movement, path, responsiveness
and vehicle management in every single section including the low-speed maneuver sections, such as
stopping for shopping and exercise left something behind in Australia. Number 10 is, make sure your
car is roadworthy because if you turn up for your test, if you're using a private car, guess what,
if your tyres are bald they're not going to take your car. They're going to decline your car
and you're going to have to pay for the extra entitlement to book another driving assessment.
Make sure that your tires have at least one and a half millimetres depth in a thread on, you know,
every part of every tire that touches the road. It's a minimum of one and a half millimetres,
so that's the minimum legal. Your indicators must work okay, they check it literally just before the
actual test and your stop lights. And obviously, if there's some visible defects such as, you know,
windscreen wipers hanging or something you know, so make sure your car is presentable,
and also give it a nice vacuum and clean just make sure, if you're using a private car make sure it's
presentable and obviously that the assessor feels, you know, comfortable in that car rather than,
you know, your front seat full of rubbish and stuff like that. So you know, it's
best to do a little sort of, you know, preparation uh including, of course, you know, checking your
lights and, you know, your seat belts and the windows and you know, if your tires are legal.
Imagine if you're ready to pass a driving assessment and you show up with a car that they
decline. That would be a total disaster. I hope that this set of info will make your life easier,
that you're going to pass your driving assessment as a result of, you know, understanding what you
should do to optimize your chances of passing. Thank you for watching and I'll see you next time.