Steve a Driving School WA thanks for stopping by
in this short video we're
gonna make you familiar with some of the things that you may need to know before
you take a driving assessment one of the the commonly asked questions is how many
lessons do I need so that's extremely difficult to answer over the phone
because we haven't seen your drive okay so despite your experience and you
know the level of skill that you believe you have we would still need to assess
your skills on your first lesson so we encourage people to book a driving
lesson with us so that we can accurately judge what do you need to do and we can
basically give you a right idea how many lessons you should need if anyone
tells you the amount of lessons that you need to do over the phone
they are not telling the truth it's a very difficult question to answer
because we need to see how a person drives what their coordinative
ability is based on our experience we can accurately tell you what you may expect
we can't pinpoint that you need five or six or ten if you asked us how many on
average how many does a person need on average look it's it's hard to average out
again something that we don't know we had people who passed the driving
assessment within three hours worth of you know practice but some others who
claimed you know that they had a previous experience needed 15 or 20
lessons so you know we will surely on the first lesson be able to establish
whether you need you know three or ten or fifteen and we are very accurate in
assessing you know what anyone would need we also get questions from people
who hold an automatic Western Australian driver's licence who need to upgrade
their licence to a c-class which is a manual transmission
they would ask us you know I've been driving you know
and over two years five years whatever the case might be and they basically say
look I've got it all I've been driving you know I've got my license I just need
to upgrade just need to upgrade it's a very similar scenario over the time
people can gain a lot of bad habits if someone's completed their driving
test successfully ten years ago it doesn't mean that they've kept all the
habits they acquired prior to doing their driving assessment the first time
again without being in the car with you we can't just tell you how many lessons
you may need regardless of what your situation is we will not be able to tell
you over the phone how many lessons do you need
however we will accurately advise you of approximate number of the lessons that
you may require
also we get calls from people asking do I need a learner's
permit for c-class upgrade you do need to obtain a learner's permit for c-class
before you take your driving assessment but to learn how to drive a manual you
can legitimately do that with the automatic license there's no option to
obtain the learner's permit online or over the phone
is it easier to pass a driving assessment in Kelmscott and Cannington than
Mirrabooka and West Perth? No it's not easier there are different aspects to
the areas you know where you can be driving but it's not easier or harder
it'll depend on how familiar with the procedures you are it'll depend on how
well-prepared you are and also how you execute all the tasks on the day of a
driving assessment all the aspects of driving assessment will be taken into
consideration how well you do your you know vehicle management and your flow and
path and your movement signaling and you know observing and all of that so you
know ultimately you know it's going to come down to how well you execute all
the tasks on the day have a driving assessment the location of where you do
that driving assessment will not be affected whether you pass or not
do they have
cars at the department of transport that I'm going to use for my Test? No they
don't have cars you will either use a driving school vehicle which is
recommended or you can use your private vehicle so if you use your private
vehicle you will have to make sure that everything is road-worthy, that it's got a
centrally mounted handbrake that the Assessor can use in an event of
emergency they will thoroughly check your vehicle upon commencing your
driving assessment so make sure that your tires are roadway to be indicators
working your stoplights work
Are they gonna take me on a freeway during my driving test?
Sadly no, we'd like to see that happen but certainly they've never ever
taken anyone in free were or a highway so the speed limit that you can expect
would be maximum seventy possibly eighty in some centers but you know most of its
fifty sixty or seventy so we encourage all of the you know Assessors to take
all of our students on a freeway because we can assure that you know everyone
that's going through the training with us will be capable of driving safely at
high speeds
Should we do the mock test with our parents? You can you can but it may be
counter effective because if they don't know exactly what you're expected to
do in a driving assessment it may be counter effective so you may learn from
an instructor what to do but if they tell you otherwise you will not know
what's right and what's wrong so we do encourage you to do a lot of
general driving with your parents there is certainly no substitute for a driving
lesson with a professional instructor
so whre should I start my driving lesson
should I come to your office we come to your place and we finish your lesson at
your place unless we're picking up from school or finishing at school or work so
we can start and finish driving lessons at different points at the address that
you nominate
is my first driving test free it's it's not free so if you're using our services
you will have to pay for our time in the instructor who's going to take you for a
driving assessment now if you've been told that your first driving test is
free what they meant when you got your learner's permit is that your first
driving test entitlement so what it means is to sit your driving test
with the Assessor is paid with your learner's permit however if you fail you
will have to pay the driving assessment Entitlement which is around eighty seven
dollars in 2019 just check the prices you know depending on when you watch
this video check the prices if they change and they usually change on the
1st of July every year
another question that we get frequently asked is should I ask
the Assessor if I'm unsure of the speed limit what the speed limit in the area
is well the answer to that is no because they will not actually say well you can
ask them but they're not allowed to say what the speed limit in the area is so
what we recommend is that you have a lot of driving in the area of a driving
assessment you know days leading to the driving assessment so you are familiar
with the areas and there we've also got some very useful YouTube videos on
this channel so subscribe and share these videos if you don't know what the
speed limit is in the area if you happen to be in the residential streets always
go to the default speed which is 50 so unless you see a sign that states
otherwise you know if you see 60 obviously it's going to be 60 so just be
aware that you know you may ask them but you're not going to get an answer
so you know because you should know and you know obviously because you you're
getting you know tested for your driver's license if you ask them any
other questions you know how should I park here can I park in in that spot
what they do is they tell you what to do but they don't tell you how so basically
you're gonna get all the direction and instructions you know where you turn you know
what you do but not how you're do it and you know they won't give any tips so be
aware that you know the important thing is that you have enough practice with a
professional instructor who knows the area and that you have a certain amount
of preparation prior to the driving assessment
am I going to do a reverse
parallel parking? Well that depends on the Assessor they can do it anywhere some
centers sort of you know more likely to to conduct a reverse parallel park in
some centers you will 99 percent of times be asked to do the reverse parallel
park and some others you may not you know be required to do it so you should
actually do the normal reverse park that it could be the scenario where the
Assessor says reverse park next to any car, reverse Park anywhere, reverse Park
on the left hand side, reverse Park on the right hand side, or they can even you
know they can they can select the bay weather they can select the Bay where
they want you to reverse park in my opinion it's not more difficult to execute
reverse parallel park over the normal Bay parking but the only thing is
the traffic that's constantly coming from behind is what scares people if you
if you line up your vehicle with a minimum delay and if you start your maneuver
as soon as possible it is going to be less likely that you hold up any
traffic so line up quickly make sure that there's no cars coming towards you
once you select reverse gear your reverse lights will come on
the driver from behind will see now you do need to observe the rear window if if
a driver slowed us down obviously you can even communicate with the Assessor
you know or we can partially slow down and stop to say oh I'm not sure if it if
it passing me so that's the aspect that people get you know unsure about and
not so much the the technicality how to perform a reverse parallel park so
regardless of whether you get asked to do reverse parallel park or normal Bay
parking just just make sure that you do it both well and you know just keep your
composure and try and do it to the best of your ability and obviously observing
is number one you know if there's any is any vehicle that comes from behind
you'll have to stop remember when you reverse you always give way okay 'cause there's
there's no situation where a reversing traffic gets priority over the
forward-moving traffic so forward moving traffic always has priority
we've covered most of the commonly asked question by public you know what to do
and what to expect in a driving assessment but if there's anything that
we haven't covered you know you can give us a call you know during our business
hours you can even ask us down below in the comments you know if this in here
you're unsure about and we would be more than happy to answer as soon as we
get opportunity to thank you for watching and we will see you in the next
video