If you've been stressing out how are you going to go for your driving test,
what's going to take place, how are you going to meet and greet the assessor at the center, and
how you're going to behave as you walk towards the car with the person that you don't know. If you'd
like to find out some of the best tips how to handle a situation under pressure, stick around.
We encourage people to walk shoulder to shoulder with the examiner if you can judge situations
you know if you're good at sort of judging you know characters and you know situations in life
you could tell if you can start you know simple conversation just to say how's your day been
and simple things like that you know so not to go sort of into the depth you know about the driving
test just just act like a human being it's just going to make you less nervous because you're
going to feel that you know you're speaking to a human being. Rarely, the assessors will
reject the short conversation you know there was a person at Mirrabooka licensing centre,
luckily he's no longer working there he was permanently in a bad mood and uh there was a
situation where uh a young you know learner driver asked him on on the way to the car
he's asked him uh how's your day been nothing really you know rude or you know there was no
mention of the driving test or anything like that, and the assessor didn't even look at him
it literally pretended you know no one's even asked him anything you know so that's
not acceptable. That young boy probably didn't sleep all night and then to bump into somebody
who doesn't really seem to act like a human being that's not you know it's just not on you know but
look that doesn't happen quite often and you know that's a good news okay so they should understand
that that's perfectly normal to to to sort of uh you know have a little conversation you can even
say I'm nervous you know I'm [ __ ] myself, you can say those things without sort of um
appearing to the assessor that you're trying to induce the outcome. Just act like you would act if
you're walking next to somebody um at work school anywhere really you got to be yourself you know
and even even under pressure and things generally work a lot better in those situations. Do not
hesitate to start a short conversation so that that's definitely one of the um one of the things
that will break the ice and that will make you far less nervous. We've done it literally thousands of
times and it's worked every single time yeah surely sometimes it can be awkward you know
yeah if the person didn't hear you. If you deal with them in a more relaxed manner it's going
to create some different atmosphere which will sort of you know be more uh positively
oriented rather than you know sort of feeling the whole time that you under some sort of threat.
Recently uh there was this uh this young bloke who uh was walking towards a car with the assessor and
he saw a surfboard on someone's roof and you know he's just commented about the surfboard you know
so you know it was some certain brand and you know that he recognized and he was into surfing. So,
something casual is really acceptable you know nobody should mind if you say something in order
to make you less nervous and that's that's just how we act you know. Casual conversation
is definitely a good thing okay so we're not talking minutes we're talking seconds
okay we're talking 10, 15, 20 seconds you know but it makes miracles you know it does
make a lot of changes as far as how you feel okay so something casual very casual nothing too long
and you know just basically to break the ice. Now, one of the things that we shouldn't really
say or you know sort of bring up you know while we're walking towards a car
is uh something along the lines like uh did did you have many fails today did you have many fails,
it's you know it would sort of imply like you know do you fail everyone, are you going to fail me, so
that's something that I would really keep out of the conversation completely. So, how many failed
and who fails who passes so that shouldn't be a part of that ice-breaking conversation at all. So,
something casual no fails on passes or you know how many points, avoid doing that under
any circumstances, so that's something that we should not bring up. You can even tell a joke
if you like I mean you know it's it's your show you've got to understand everything is happening
because of you it is your show and you've got to understand that more relaxed and more
capable of making reasonable sort of rational decisions when you're driving the results will be
better. There's definitely no question about that, and don't be too shy to sort of you know close up
and walk 10 meters in front of the assessor while your heart's pounding 150 beats per minute it's
just not something that's going to make things easier. So, we hope that this short video will
help you overcome those uh you know unreasonable thoughts and you know if if it happens
you need to really understand that nothing nothing's wrong with your you know body and you
know nothing's wrong with possibly your driving if you had a a proper you know good preparation
it's probably just your thoughts that that are making your heart
pound 150 beats per minute. So, we thank you for watching and we will see you in the next video