Today I'm going to share with you the best tips on how to pass driving
assessment
My name is Steve and I'm the founder of Driving School WA. I helped
over 5,000 people to get their driver's license over the past 17 years and I
also coached a significant number of driving instructors in Perth.
Based on my experience here are some of the most common errors that are easily avoidable
providing that you keep your composure
Here are the most marked particulars in the driving assessment you need to
remember
Not checking blind spot when merging or changing lanes would be one
of them, and not doing it correctly. It is scientifically proven beyond doubt that
there could be a hidden object behind our ear, which is usually in the region
of your rear door window
Now, the second one is not checking blind spot and using signals correctly
when overtaking a parked vehicle on the side of the residential street
This is crucially important because in the assessment you could simply lose a
few points in less than a few seconds by not indicating correctly, checking your
rear view mirror, looking over your shoulder and doing the same on your way
back once you pass the parked vehicle. It is very extremely important
Not stopping completely at a stop sign it is so important that you in the
driving assessment in particular, that once you've made a complete stop that you
remain stationary for at least two seconds with your foot firmly on brake
and on number "three" you can take your foot off brake and then proceed providing there's
no traffic, you know that you need to give way to. So this applies for situations where
there's no traffic at all, so regardless of the traffic you would have to stop
completely without moving whatsoever for at least "1000, 2000" on "3" you can take your foot off
the brake. It's just a guide there's no rule as such but rule is we've got to
stop completely without moving before we move off again providing there's no traffic
Not indicating when exiting roundabouts! Indicators are the only way
of communicating with other road users from inside of our car, no one's going
to know what you're doing by maybe making some gestures or turning your
head you know in certain direction, so if we don't indicate to, you know, indicate
our intention to leave the roundabout the person from the opposite direction
will not know what you intend to do
Not observing a railway crossing when you
are crossing a level railway crossing. Now also, you may have noticed there's a
yellow painted zone within the railway crossing, it goes for roughly around 10
to 15 meters. We could never get stranded inside of the railway crossing, because if
somebody breaks down right in front of you and you just made it as far as the
trains path, so in the middle of the railway tracks and there's five six ten
maybe fifty cars behind you and no one's moving for the next 30 seconds. You might
be in trouble! So never get stranded inside of the
railway crossing
You've got to be mindful of speed limits in the area that you're traveling
through, because simply it would defeat the purpose of being a driving
assessment if you get let off for doing 60 in a 50 zone. They do tolerate if you if you
are within five kilometers over the speed limit
and you may get one speed warning but not more than that. If you're doing more
than five, you know ten, fifteen, regardless of how well you performed up until that
point in the driving test, they will have to terminate your driving assessment
Taking both hands of steering wheel would be one of the things that they
would immediately terminate your driving test if your car is in motion. Even if
you're sitting at the traffic lights you are still expected to have at least
one hand on a steering wheel, it means you've got a control over your vehicle
Not stopping when you're reversing out of the driveway if you see an oncoming
vehicle from behind. When you think about it
reversing traffic never has priority over forward moving traffic. To put
in a different perspective, if you are driving straight ahead on a residential
road and there's a driver reversing out out of their house! Would you expect them
to continue reversing into your path or would you expect them to stop for you
for you to proceed and then they would continue their maneuver? Of course
you expect them to to stop.
Sometimes, indicating and leaving your indicators
for too long or indicating too early may potentially miss communicate your
intention to another road user that may be turning onto the road where you are
currently driving on
School zones! If it's flashing it's very simple
philosophy, if the 40 signs are flashing do not go over 40 before you got out
of that particular zone where it would clearly state "end of school zone"
Parking within close distance from any type of intersection or a bus stop on a
residential street, when you do your exercise left something behind
during the driving assessment, we also shouldn't park on the top of the fire hydrant
which is the painted white "H" letter that represents the fire hydrant
Leaving the car in reverse and thinking you're gonna go forward or vice versa
could cause a potential you know immediate fail, so make sure that you
got it in the right gear before you intend to move off
There are two main reasons why a candidate would make any of these errors.
Number one is being under-prepared and unfamiliar with the process of the
driving assessment, and number two is nervousness. Think of your driving
assessment as a presentation. They don't need to see an experienced driver, they
just need to see somebody who can drive okay without causing too many major
errors. Nervousness is depletion of constructive energy, and less nervous you
are your execution on the day will be much better. Before the day of your
assessment we will email you with personalized notes based on your recent
lessons with us, so you will have the first hand insite of what you need to do
you know once you understand it it's less likely that you let it slip your
mind. Focus on every individual task, and you're more than likely to pass